John Hollis

New trade routes in the Arctic mean unprecedented traffic and industrialization are likely to follow, so George Mason University’s Elise Miller-Hooks and her team of scientists will be taking a closer look at what that will mean for the region’s infrastructure and governance thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant for a project called “An Expanding Global Maritime Network, Its Arctic Impacts and Reverberations.”

A team of George Mason University researchers has discovered a rare trio of three supermassive black holes in a system of three merging galaxies a billion light-years away.

He’s a noted conservation biologist who has served three presidents and coined the term “biological diversity.”

More than 100 PhD students from electrical and bioengineering, data science, computer science, neuroscience and the social sciences, including some with disabilities, will be trained to use state-of-the-art data analytic methods and wearable computing technologies based on novel transdisciplinary competencies, applications and practice curriculum.

Early enrollment figures for the 2019-20 academic year showing a record freshman class at George Mason University and better-than-expected results with both the ADVANCE and Wiley graduate programs.

Northern Virginia is considered a dynamic tech-centric ecosystem critical to the state’s economy, and George Mason University has been tapped to play a key role to ensure it remains so.