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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.

Students work in Deborah Polayes Biology of Microorganisms Lab. Photo by Lathan Goumas/Office of Communications and Marketing

Summer 2024 VALHEN Hispanic STEM Academy application now open

George Mason University is excited to partner again with the Virginia Latino Higher Education Network (VALHEN) to offer the VALHEN Hispanic STEM Academy. This unique experience offers participants a series of interactive and hands-on sessions across a wide range of STEM disciplines, held in Mason’s cutting-edge labs and facilities. VHSA is open to all rising Virginia high school sophomores and juniors, and was designed to meet the unique needs of Hispanic/Latine and other underserved communities.

Two VALHEN participants working with one another on an assignment.

College of Science Annual Report 2022-23

George Mason's College of Science reflects on its achievements during the 2022-2023 academic year. Whether inside or outside the classroom or lab, our science community cultivates a promising research future for new frontiers that is all together different

Annual Report 2022-23

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Mar29

Geometry MMA Seminar: Bi-Lipschitz arcs in metric spaces

Mar 29, 2024, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Speaker: Scott Zimmerman, Ohio State University Title: Bi-Lipschitz arcs in metric spaces Abstract: A bi-Lipschitz arc in a metric space $X$ is the image of an interval in the real line under a bi-Lipschitz map. A natural question is as follows: when is a subset of a metric space contained
Mar29

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense - Environmental Science & Policy

Mar 29, 2024, 2:30 - 4:30 PM

Hybrid
Potomac Science Center 3102 
Zoom - email espgrad@gmu.edu for Zoom meeting info

Candidate: Jordan Sims | Title: Filling critical ecological knowledge gaps on Honduran reefs to better inform coral restoration practices using molecular approaches
Mar29

Computational and Data Sciences Seminar Series

Mar 29, 2024, 3:00 - 4:30 PM

Center on Social Complexity Suite (3rd floor, Research Hall) and online via Zoom

Speaker: Amira Stine, CSS Ph.D. Program, CDS, GMU Title: Retention in higher education: An agent-based model of social interactions and motivated agent behavior Abstract: In the United States, educational attainment and student retention are some of the areas of greater focus in higher education research. Institutions are constantly looking for