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Mason Spirit is published three times a year by the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations in conjunction with the Office of Communications and Marketing.
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Alumnus Shares His Political Insights As Part of the First Tuesday Speaker Series
By Mason Spirit contributor on December 17, 2018
In October, Danny Diaz, BA Communication ’00, who served as the campaign manager for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, spent a little more than an hour at the Fenwick Library talking politics with interested students and members of the Mason community as part of the First Tuesday speaker series sponsored by Robinson Professor Steven Pearlstein.
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UN Peace Envoy
By Buzz McClain, BA '77 on October 18, 2018
As a United Nations senior mediation adviser, Tatsushi Arai, PhD Conflict Analysis and Resolution ’05, is on call to negotiate with world leaders and conflict parties at a moment’s notice.
Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize
By Mason Spirit contributor on October 18, 2018
Washington Post video reporter Tom LeGro, BA English ’98, MFA Creative Writing ’01, was part of the newspaper team that won the Washington Post a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Let There Be Lights
By Lindsay Bernhards, BA '18 on October 18, 2018
Mason Engineering alumna Urenna Onyewuchi has been passionate about improving Africa’s access to reliable electricity from a young age.
A Road Map for the Future of Health Care
By Mason Spirit contributor on August 6, 2018
Mason alumna Franziska Moeckel came to the United States as an international student from Germany, searching for a university that would be the perfect fit for her. While she was accepted to several schools, Moeckel says Mason was her top choice because it allowed her to be part of a community.
Game Changer
By Teresa D. Allen, MFA '12 on August 1, 2018
Mason alumnus Rick Dunetz, BIS ’97, is the executive director of Side-Out Foundation, which funds targeted “multiomic” research studies on metastatic breast cancer, a new method of combining genomic and proteomic research, creating individualized therapies for specific patients.
Picturing Prince
By Mason Spirit contributor on March 1, 2018
Over Alumni Weekend, Mason alumnus Steve Parke came to campus to share his experiences working with music icon Prince and sign copies of his new book, Picturing Prince (Octopus Books, 2017), for an enthusiastic crowd of the Purple One’s fans.
Seeing What Others Don’t
By Cathy Cruise, MFA '93 on March 1, 2018
On an otherwise ordinary day near Springfield Mall in Northern Virginia, a car came to an abrupt stop on the side of the road. The driver jumped out, dragged his passenger outside, and threw her onto the curb. Then he got back in the car and sped away. Luckily, Mason alumni Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, an expert on human trafficking, was in her own car nearby, and saw the whole thing.
Bringing People Together
By Buzz McClain, BA '77 on March 1, 2018
As a practitioner in the peacebuilding field, Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, MAIS ’96, PhD Conflict Analysis and Resolution ’06, helps clients ranging from the Fairfax County Public Schools system to the Security Council of the United Nations with conflict assessment studies, mediation, and training.
Alumni Profile: Rion Amilcar Scott
By Tara Laskowski, MFA '05 on December 4, 2017
Rion Amilcar Scott, MFA Creative Writing ’08, my friend and fellow MFA grad, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for his story collection Insurrections.
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