- March 18, 2021
Tuesday’s mass murder in Atlanta returns us to terrible, familiar ground, as we try again to make sense of violence, and calm the terror that was already building within an entire cultural community.
This is the National Society of Black Engineers Week, with festivities taking place all week.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation that approves George Mason University for the highest level of institutional management autonomy granted to Virginia public colleges and universities, a milestone achievement for Mason, the state’s youngest public research institution.
“For some people, it will be tough to go back,” said Keith D. Renshaw, chair of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Psychology Department and director of the Military, Veterans and Families Initiative. “Many of us have spent the year with reduced human interactions. For people with anxiety, this has meant they’ve been able to turn off the technology when they needed to unplug.”
George Mason University was named a “Voter Friendly Campus” as the result of a campus-wide strategy to increase voter turnout. Mason is one of more than 231 colleges and universities across 37 states and the District of Columbia to earn this designation.
In the next installment of the Office of the Provost’s Mason Vision Series, Mason epidemiologist Amira Roess will address “COVID-19: A Vision for Future Response.”
Sensing a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in American culture and around the world, Anna Antonio-Vila, who said she grew up going to schools with diverse peers, was upset.
“It’s very unsettling to me because I believe that our religions are so connected and that we should not be fighting,” the government and international politics major from Spain said. “We should be helping each other.”
So, the Catholic sophomore at George Mason University posted on Twitter about her desire to form a club where people of Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—could talk about religion and politics, connect and form a union.
Pedestrian advisory: Pathway change, March 15–26, 2021
Mason's Employee of the Month program is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month of highlighting the achievements of Mason’s staff. The program has recognized the hard work of 360 Mason employees since its inception in 1991.
