Honors College

Mason's Honors College held its annual ice cream social, welcoming new students with treats, games, and introductions.

Hannah Adamson, who graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution, is one of 62 recipients nationwide awarded a fellowship by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Mason’s Honors College and Early Identification Program (EIP) promote access to inclusive excellence. EIP serves first-gen high school students and offers programming such as the College Application Coaches program. EIP alumni entering the Honors College are awarded full tuition scholarships. The partnership strengthens EIP’s mission of educating the whole student and advances the Honors College’s commitment to increasing access to transformative academic, civic, and professional experiences.

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.

On the fourth episode of “Our Future, Transformed,” Laurie Robinson, the two-time assistant U.S. attorney general and a Robinson Professor Emerita at George Mason University, speaks with Mason President Gregory Washington about building greater trust between law enforcement and citizens, and applying science to policing.

Honors College students on Mason’s softball team won the Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship for the first time. These students excel in various areas and show exceptional leadership skills on and off the field.

Peraton, a Virginia-based national security company, awarded 10 George Mason University Honors College students the Stu Shea Peraton Scholarship in National Security at the Honors College’s 15th Annual Research Exhibition and Awards Ceremony.

The Honors College expresses its gratitude to Ms. Catherine Riley for her service on the Honors College Dean’s Advisory Board and for helping shape our university into what it is today. As she departs from the board, we thank her for her time and commitment and wish her all the best in her future endeavors. 

Mason President Gregory Washington hosts a new YouTube series titled “Our Future, Transformed: Mason Spotlights the World’s Grand Challenges.” The series will feature faculty experts speaking about the key issues, implications, and solutions facing some of the most debated and significant topics of the day, including water policies in the West, police reform, problems at our Southern border, and getting more women into STEM fields.

In this episode of the web series Our Future, Transformed Schar School of Policy and Government’s Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera describes a Southern border about which you might not have heard — one that plays against stereotypes of drugs, violence, and undocumented immigration, and where "borderlanders" are creating their own culture.