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Academic programs that bring opportunity

Just outside the nation's capital, we've built connections with government agencies and industry partners working at the forefront of scientific research. Combine those with our advanced facilities for getting real-world work experience and options for tailoring your degree, and our students have more opportunity to land jobs, internships, and research collaborations that really help them stand out. 

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Earn your bachelor’s and master’s degree in as little as five years

Get ahead with Mason’s Bachelor’s/Accelerated Master’s (BAM) program. Waived application fee, apply up to 12 graduate credits toward both degrees, pay undergrad rates for grad courses, and finish your master’s sooner—saving time and money.

Master's students at graduation

Environmental science major lands internship with United States Geological Survey

Environmental science major Melanie Medrano has long aspired to work in the federal government, in a role she describes as being on the front lines of creating meaningful environmental change. She took a major step towards that goal by starting an internship with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), where she will assist in their communication efforts through December 2025.

Camacho (center) with her mentors Abby Lynch (left) and Jackson Valler (right) at the Reston offices.

The Grand Challenge Initiative — Bold Solutions for A Prosperous Future

George Mason University's Grand Challenge Initiative (GCI) is a comprehensive research framework, backed by an initial five-year, $15 million investment, to align university resources, faculty expertise, and educational programs around six interconnected solution areas addressing humanity’s ultimate grand challenge.

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Nov14

Analysis Seminar: Differential Harnack Bounds, Fractional Heat Flow, and Geometry, part I

November 14, 2025

Nov 14, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Speaker: Mikolaj Sierzega, GMU Title: Differential Harnack Bounds, Fractional Heat Flow, and Geometry, part I Abstract: Harnack bounds lie at the very heart of regularity theory for partial differential equations. In the case of the classical heat equation, they reach their most elegant and canonical form — the Hadamard–Pini bound
Nov14

CAGS: Enumerating alternating cycles in posets

November 14, 2025

Nov 14, 2025, 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Speaker: John Kent, GMU Title: Enumerating alternating cycles in posets Abstract Time: Friday, November 14, 12:30pm – 1:30pm Location: Exploratory Hall, room 4106 and Zoom
Nov14

Applied & Computational Mathematics seminar: Approximating Quantum States by States of Low Rank

November 14, 2025

Nov 14, 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Speaker: Chi-Kwong Li, William & Mary and George Mason University Title: Approximating Quantum States by States of Low Rank Abstract: Given a positive integer k, it is natural to ask for a formula for the distance between a given density matrix (i.e., mixed quantum state) and the set of density

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