- April 6, 2024
Moderator Dean Melissa Perry and expert panel explore the intersection of climate change and health from diverse perspectives, drawing on insights from psychology, environmental science, and public health. Video included.
- October 23, 2023
Americans generally assume tap water is safe to drink; but rising temperatures could prove them wrong. Kirin Emlet Furst received a grant to study how extreme heat is challenging the disinfection of water in underground distribution systems.
- May 8, 2023
Water is critical for survival and yet, in a warming world, we find some places have too little and some have too much how do we solve for this grand challenge? Watch this episode of Our Future, Transformed featuring Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Dean of the College of Science.
- May 30, 2023
Celso Ferreira in George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing is studying the impact of climate change on jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.
- March 31, 2023
A biostatistics graduate student spearheaded a weather station installation, to monitor the cherry trees at Mason Pond and study climate change.
- August 25, 2022
Students who want to study solutions to climate change and energy issues can now create their own course. Energy and Climate Policy, is open to graduate students as well as undergraduates and launches in the Spring of 2023.
- March 30, 2022
George Mason University will bring its array of resources and expertise to bear in the state’s efforts to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change with the creation of the Virginia Climate Center.
- February 23, 2022
Rising sea levels as a result of climate change are a national security threat and imperil the Virginia economy.
- February 17, 2022
The results of climate change are creating Big Problems for policy makers. The Schar School has been teaching climate change as a national security problem, and governments should respond accordingly.
- February 9, 2022
As a junior and senior at Annandale High School in Virginia, Emily Sample spent her summers as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She was a teenager who had just lost a friend to police violence, she said, and joining the museum’s Young Ambassadors Program resonated with her.
“I was fascinated and continue to be fascinated by this highly illogical idea of genocide,” said Sample, a PhD candidate at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.