The Mason Spirit

For much of his professional life in the intelligence industry, Mason alumnus Frank Strickland has maintained a career cloaked in secrecy and marked by security clearances, guarded buildings, and top-secret documents. And while Strickland understandably can’t divulge too much about what he does, what he can say is that he wouldn’t be where he is today without a lifetime commitment to furthering his education.

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Kathryn Jacobsen is an old hand at writing textbooks. After the success of this associate professor in the Department of Global and Community Health’s 2007 text Introduction to Global Health, she decided to tackle the world of research in Introduction to Health Research Methods (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2011). An epidemiologist, Jacobsen explains that her…

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During the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, most people worried about how fast they could leave or fly out loved ones. Mason alumnus Mark Flanigan, on the other hand, was anxious about getting back into the country.

Continue Reading Mark Flanigan: Making Peace a Priority

Whether it is on an Indian reservation in the southwestern United States, the heart of South Sudan, or a rural village in Southeast Asia, Dr. Sarah Jean Hanson, BS Biology ’02, has found that people view pregnancy and delivery the same way: it is a special and celebrated time.

Continue Reading Dr. Sarah Jean Hanson: Delivering on Global Maternal Health

The Economics Department at the end of the 1970s was not yet the world-renowned home of Nobel laureates in a shining building on the Fairfax Campus, rather it was located in an old ranch house on a residential street a short drive away. Distance from campus was not a burden. This odd bit of office space was filled with men and women of vision and hope led by a man who had plenty of both, William P. Snavely.

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John and Chipper Whalan’s love story was written in the stars—and they have the telescope to prove it.

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This fall, Danjing Shen will be one of more than 70 Chinese students studying at Mason as part of the China 1+2+1 program. Mason is one of 18 public universities to offer the program, which allows students from China to spend two years at an American university bookended by time at their Chinese universities, and receive diplomas from both.

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During their initial meeting, Broadside sports editor Cody Norman was granted something by Mason men’s basketball coach Paul Hewitt that sports reporters prize above all else: unfettered access.

Continue Reading Cody Norman: Mason’s B-Ball Blogger

With sold out shows and a slew of glowing reviews, Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles anthology Love has certainly conquered all in Las Vegas, including Mason alumna Melanie Lalande, BFA Dance ’01.

Continue Reading Alumna Is Loving Every Second with Cirque

Jenna St. John, MFA Creative Writing ’08, is a dancer and actor. And now that she can throw filmmaker into her bag of theatrical tricks, she’s a bona fide triple threat. On July 31, St. John will premiere her first full-length movie at Fairfax’s Cinema Arts Theatre, not far from her old Mason stomping grounds….

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