CEC Communications

  • June 4, 2026

    Spring into STEM 2026 brought more than 120 students and parents to George Mason for a hands-on day of interactive workshops and family-focused programming designed to spark interest and build pathways into STEM careers.

  • June 4, 2026

    Researchers Shirin Movaghgharnezhad and Parag Chitnis have created a flexible, low-cost wearable patch that could transform medical imaging from a handheld, momentary procedure into continuous, real-time monitoring.

  • May 29, 2026

    An institutional collaboration between George Mason University’s Department of Statistics and Inova Health System has entered its 7th year. It has connected physician-scientists with statisticians in designing study plans, clinical trials, and turn complex data into insights, improving research, decision-making, and patient outcomes across a wide range of clinical fields. It also helps to train our students.

  • May 27, 2026

    Our colleague, friend, and beloved instructor, George L. Donohue, passed away on April 23, 2026, at the age of 81.

  • May 21, 2026

    Professor Alex Brodsky keynoted the joint session of the ENASE-2026 and ICEIS-2026 International Conferences, to be held in Benidorm, Spain, in May 2026.

  • May 20, 2026

    Bioengineering students won first-place in a national design competition for Project S.E.R.V.E. (Student Engineering for Resilience of Veterans). The annual event included engineering students from 11 universities across the country to design custom adaptive devices for injured veterans on Team USA’s para bobsled and para skeleton teams.

  • May 14, 2026

    Three College of Engineering and Computing faculty received Presidential Awards at a reception on May 12. The recipient of this year’s SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, Xuesu Xiao was also recognized.

  • May 11, 2026

    With experience that spans science, healthcare systems, and software development, Moaz Shaikh, a CEC student brings a perspective shaped by both analytical thinking and real-world application to George Mason's ACCESS Academy.

  • May 11, 2026

    PhD student Shahab Aref has developed a tool for the FAA to make air travel safer for millions of Americans through AI-driven, physics-based modeling.

  • May 6, 2026

    Postdoctoral researchers Blanca Gutiérrez-Guzmán and J Jesús Hernández-Pérez and assistant professor of bioengineering Holger Dannenberg’s latest publication in Nature Communications asks: If the world suddenly gets bigger, do our mental maps stretch with it, or do they break?