GCI-Grand Challenge Initiative

Associate Professor Geoffrey Gilleaudeau joins President Washington to discuss what we can learn about the past, present, and future of Earth’s oceans from sedimentary rocks.

Beginning Monday, September 22, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University hosts its Fall 2025 Peace Week with the theme “Bridging Peacebuilding, Development, and Security.” This semi-annual series, launched in 2020, now draws thousands of participants to more than 30 in-person and virtual events each semester.

George Mason’s Center for Community Mental Health received a grant from the Potomac Health Foundation that will directly support its Stepped Mental Health Care Program in Prince William County.

Commonwealth, public school and higher education leaders joined community members, parents and students Wednesday for the opening of the Shenandoah Valley Rural Regional College Partnership Laboratory School for Data Science, Computing, and Applications (DSCA Lab School).

Matthew Dalton joined George Mason University as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in May, bringing more than 25 years of experience as a cybersecurity leader at R1 institutions. In his new role with Information Technology Services, he will provide vision and strategy for information security at Virginia’s largest public research university.

Faculty across the College of Education and Human Development, working with University Libraries, are exploring AI-powered ways to bridge the gap between research and practice in education.

For this special "Best Of" episode, we've compiled some of our most thought-provoking and compelling conversations between President Washington and our accomplished faculty.

A project led by George Mason University professor Arthur Romano is working to prevent gun violence in Baltimore through proactive peacebuilding initiatives.

George Mason University’s civil engineers are assessing the climate change challenges facing some of the world’s highest mountain ranges, creating better ways to measure the melting ice in high elevations where temperatures are rising faster than average and putting pressure on the livelihoods of fragile cultures and ecologies.

Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, recently participated in discussions at the 2025 Global Higher Education Symposium, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 18.