July 29, 2026George Mason's Prepared-NoVA Emergency Preparedness Workshop convened stakeholders on July 16 in Fuse to identify challenges facing Northern Virginia’s first responders.
July 23, 2026Giorgio Ascoli is the first George Mason recipient of the Javits Award, reserved for a small number of exceptionally highly rated research proposals, awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH.
July 21, 2026CEC was well represented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in in June, where faculty and staff presented papers and talks, won awards, staffed a booth in an expansive exhibit hall, and were elected to ASEE leadership positions.
July 20, 2026Computer Science Assistant Professor Ziyu Yao received an NSF CAREER award for $674,100 to peel the layers back on AI, developing new methods for understanding the internal mechanisms of LLMs.
July 14, 2026Quentin Sanders is developing a new generation of hand exoskeletons that may help people regain independence after stroke.
July 7, 2026Maryam Parsa received a five-year, $655,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop a new framework for brain-inspired AI.
July 6, 2026Xuan Wang received a five-year, $640,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ask: What if a robot could learn from another robot's experience?
June 23, 2026Ken Ball was named a Fellow Member at the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference in June in Charlotte, North Carolina.
June 18, 2026CEC's Chris Carr is a newly named visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, a Johns Hopkins University body dedicated to strengthening democracy through civic engagement and informed dialogue.
June 16, 2026The College of Engineering and Computing's Janis Terpenny was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.