Departments
Fall 2007 Features
- Mason Strikes Gold with Greening Efforts
- At Mason, green has always been a popular color, but in recent years, it has come to indicate more than just school spirit.
- Talking Trash
- Mason’s widespread recycling efforts provide for a cleaner, eco-friendlier university.
- Going Native
- Some green-thumbed students and faculty are restoring native plants to the Fairfax Campus—and yes, they’re diggin’ their work.
- Adding Fossil Fuel to the Fire
- Mason climate experts find that global warming figures may be too conservative.
- Bay Watch
- Biologists have an ambitious goal for the Chesapeake Bay: adding 10,000 miles of forest buffers to keep the waters clean.
- Coral Crisis
- Mason researchers race to understand a mysterious plague that is destroying the world’s reefs.
- Game Faces: Sean Kelley
- A look at soccer player, Sean Kelley.
- Alumni Spirit Spreads Coast to Coast
- The spirit of Mason alumni continues to grow, not just in Northern Virginia, but nationwide.
- Paul Revered
- Paul Ferguson is Northern Virginia’s most refreshingly down-to-Earth, friend-of-the-Earth politician—and he’s determined to save the planet one light bulb at a time.
Inside Patriot Circles
- University Kicks Off Decade of the Mind
- Patriots Pack It Out
- Roll 'em
- Mason Works to Head Off Nursing Shortage
- In Memoriam
- Photos and Sound Bites
- The Write Moves
- Freeze Frame
Update on Private Support
- Gifts to Mason Advance Environmental Studies
- Help Save a Tree: Give Early and Online
- $1 Million Feinstein Bequest to Endow Scholarships
- Alumnus Is New Chair of Foundation Board
Transitions
- The Ripple Effect
- Environmental optimist Joanna Cornell believes a simple nature walk can change the way you see the world.
- Natural Selection
- Kristy Jones’s love of nature makes her an obvious choice to educate others about the environment.
- More Transitions
About the Spirit
The Mason Spirit is produced for the alumni and friends of George Mason University by the following offices:
- Office of Alumni Affairs
- Christine Clark-Talley, associate vice president
- Andy Ackley, senior associate director
- Katie Mirick Thomasson, MPA '03, associate director
- Darren Silvis, associate director
- Carol Swigart, BA '06, assistant director
- Carole Richardson, alumni relations coordinator
- Office of University Relations
- Colleen Kearney Rich, MFA '95, managing editor
- Tara Laskowski, MFA '05, assistant editor
- David Driver,
assistant editor - Ken Budd, BA '88, MA '97, contributing editor
- Lynn Burke, copy editor
- Joan Dall'Acqua, graphic designer
- WebComm, web design