Inquiring Minds

George Mason’s Virginia Climate Center (VCC) has unveiled the commonwealth’s first comprehensive, peer-reviewed climate assessment—a landmark report that provides science-based insights into Virginia’s changing climate and its impacts on communities, infrastructure, and the economy.

With the global rise of Korean culture—from K-pop and film to food and language—George Mason University’s Mason Korea campus recently launched the Center for Korean Culture and Society (CKCS), its first independently operating research center.

Cognitive training program implemented by George Mason University social work researchers offers promising, non-medicine-based methods to support brain health in older adults.

Illicit massage businesses (IMBs) run by human trafficking rings are rampant in the United States. A George Mason professor has helped build what may be the best AI-driven tool to root them out.

There are currently more than 80,000 unaccounted-for service members from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, and other conflicts. George Mason University’s ongoing collaboration with the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is exploring new ways of locating the missing remains of those American service members and bringing closure to their families. 

In partnership with Prince William County, George Mason University’s Biomedical Research Laboratory is working to prevent outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases.

A pilot program led by George Mason social work professor Li-Mi Chen used virtual scenarios to improve training for nursing home staff.

George Mason University researchers Cynthia Lum and Christopher Koper are testing solutions to help local police departments balance limited resources while strengthening public trust.

For firefighters, even training is a risk. George Mason University researchers Craig Yu and Joel Martin are hoping to change that.

George Mason professor Sungsoo Ray Hong has always been a huge fan of cartoons, comics, and animations. By combining his passion with his research area of human-computer interaction, he has created a new tool for cartoonists, ShadowMagic.