September 21, 2026Cybersecurity researcher Kun Sun is helping prepare students and professionals to meet the challenge of evolving AI systems through a new National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded project focused on hands-on education in agentic AI security.
September 16, 2026Smriti Kansal Patwardhan is the college’s new director of undergraduate academic affairs, a recently created role that complements the college’s existing efforts in advising and recruitment. Her goal: helping students succeed and stay on track.
September 14, 2026An unlikely connection between financial market algorithms and human speech is the focus of a paper by George Mason University researchers that was accepted by one of the world’s most prestigious conferences for natural language processing.
September 11, 2026New College of Engineering and Computing Assistant Professor Taereem Kim thinks about how weather patterns separated by enormous distances can be connected and, more importantly, how those large-scale atmospheric connections translate into local effects.
September 8, 2026EagleBank Arena buzzed with high-tech aerial excitement on August 15 as George Mason University hosted the culmination of the 2nd Annual Airborne Robotics Cup, a STEM outreach competition culminating in an intense 12-hour tournament featuring dynamic, lighter-than-air autonomous blimp “soccer” matches.
September 3, 2026Two George Mason faculty members are developing new approaches to protect AI data centers from threats ranging from insiders stealing valuable AI models to cyberattacks against the systems controlling a facility’s power and cooling.
August 31, 2026Thema Monroe-White is helping prepare the next generation not just to use the AI, but to navigate it thoughtfully and responsibly.
August 25, 2026Not Quite Laughs, a comedy group founded by a George Mason student, is hosting a free comedy show on Thursday, August 27th, at Mackenzie’s Tunes and Tonics in Fairfax.
August 20, 2026The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) named Doaa Bondok a 2026 Engineering Unleashed Fellow, one of only 30 people nationwide to achieve the distinction. The fellowship is recognition of a commitment to developing engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) and comes with a $10,000 grant.
August 19, 2026Electrical and computer engineering Assistant Professor Ningshi Yao tested the idea that competition drives strong results by designing two very different engineering challenges for local pre-college students: one sending student-built ground vehicles racing across a soccer field and the other taking to the skies.