Military at Mason
- November 10, 2022Paul Deller and Michael Harris are part of a cohort of 11 Marine Corps officers attending Mason through the Congressional Fellowship Program, which gives Marines opportunities for professional development that include working on Capitol Hill for one year and enrollment in Mason’s graduate public policy program.
- November 10, 2021Mason doctoral students LeNaya Crandall Hezel and Lt. Col. Michelle Ruehl are part of the 2021 class of Tillman Scholars, named in honor of Pat Tillman, the former NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 while serving with the U.S. Army Rangers.
- September 20, 2021For his dedication to Mason’s military community, Ryan Barnett is one of only 19 people nationwide recognized as a 2021 Veteran Champion of the Year in Higher Education by G.I. Jobs.
- September 15, 2021Dr. Niyati Dhokai, the Director of the Veterans and the Arts Initiative Program at George Mason University talks in this podcast about how effective music therapy is for Veterans returning from active duty, battling PTSD and other injuries, and how their families and children benefit from these sessions.
- November 10, 2020A strong sense of duty is what led Michael Manges to George Mason University, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship is helping him realize his dream.
- November 8, 2018The first students in a new Headquarters Marine Corps program, which makes higher education opportunities available to Marine Corps Officers, began studies in July at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
- November 10, 2016The associate athletic director for academics and intercollegiate athletics is a well-known personality around Northern Virginia, and has positively affected lives and futures as an adjunct professor, evinced by the binder full of laudatory letters sent to him by former students in his GOVT 351 class, Administration in the Political System.
- October 7, 2016In a new study, Farrokh Alemi, Janusz Wojtusiak, and Sorina Vlaicu, all of the Department of Health Administration and Policy, along with Raya Elfadel Kheirbek of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Washington, DC and George Washington University’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences, examine whether there is racial disparity in 30-day readmission rates for veterans hospitalized with heart failure.
- August 11, 2016When Aubrey Whitehead counsels his daughter, Khaliah, about schoolwork, he tells the high school senior to focus less on grades and more on inquiry.
- June 21, 2016Each year System Engineering students from around the country gather at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point NY, to test their wits against the best system engineers in the nation. Thirteen teams from the George Mason University's systems engineering department competed this year.