Damian Cristodero

Matthew Berlejung, video conference engineer in Information Technology Services, is October Employee of the Month.

Distinguished Visiting Professor Michael Morell is the only person who was with President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, when the 9/11 attacks occurred, and with President Barack Obama on May 2, 2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed.

George Mason University has four programs in the top 100 in the world in the latest Academic Rankings of World Universities. The university also gained in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

After coming to the United States from El Salvador to join her mother late in 2010, she enrolled in Mason's Early Identification Program and was an academic star at Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Mason volunteers stepped up to help when a group of 174 Afghan refugees, fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country on a U.S. government flight, sheltered for 24 hours at Northern Virginia Community College’s gym in Annandale, Aug. 20-21.

For Hakeem Muata Oluseyi, one of the nation's best-known astrophysicists, being named a Visiting Robinson Professor at George Mason University represents the natural progression of his career.

The reimagined Wilkins Plaza is open after two-plus years of construction. It includes a boulevard-like east-west walkway that extends from the Mason Pond Parking Deck to Southside.

George Mason University has been named a military friendly institution by Viqtory, Military Friendly for the 10th year, an important distinction for a university committed to veterans and other nontraditional students.