Students

Mason English major Jasmine Okidi’s dedication and accomplishments were rewarded recently with a Beinecke Scholarship, which supports exceptional students committed to research careers in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

From April 2-4, 14 students from Mason’s Forensics Team competed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the AFA-NST, which brings students together from across the nation to compete for national championships.

Graduate students in the MBA elective class help companies examine their impact on the environment and offer solutions to reduce their environmental footprint.

Bioengineering undergrad Medhini Sosale wins one of the highest rewards—the Goldwater Scholarship—in the U.S. for undergrad students interested in developing STEM research careers.

The Honors College class on the “100th Meridian Project” involves a multidisciplinary investigation into the water crisis in the American West.

Of the 115 judges who have served on the U.S. Supreme Court, 108 of them have been White men. This summer, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will spark a change, as she becomes the first Black woman to serve as a justice in the court’s 233-year history. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 7.

Fifteen Mason students will make presentations at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, held virtually April 4-8.

Before he took the class Transnational Sexualities, Casey Klemmer had not heard anything about transgender people outside of Virginia.

When the George Mason University senior Dacheka Kolcum heard about the August 2021 earthquake that devastated Haiti, she immediately jumped into action to help by creating a GoFundMe page that raised $5,000 to help provide basic necessities for those most adversely impacted by quake.

Dan Kingsley, a graduate professional assistant in Mason’s LBGTQ+ Resources Center, helps to create community through the center’s peer mentoring program.