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Student-Built Device Could Help Athletes ‘Stay in the Game’
By Martha Bushong on February 6, 2017
According to NCAA statistics, 1 in 13 female athletes experience a torn anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in the knee joint. It’s an epidemic few are talking about. Few, that is, except for an enterprising team of students in the Volgenau School of Engineering’s Systems Engineering Program. Team members Amr Attyah, Maribeth Burns, Sam Miller,…
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White and Working Class
By Colleen Kearney Rich on February 6, 2017
In his new book, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2016), Schar School of Policy and Government professor Justin Gest analyzes alienation in white working class people in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Space Between
By Colleen Kearney Rich on February 6, 2017
Innovation often happens at the intersection of disciplines—where different ideas, perspectives, and fields come together to create approaches that are unthinkable from a narrow disciplinary lens.
Exceeding (Even Our) Expectations
By Michele McDonald on February 6, 2017
It was a goal. Now it is a reality. This year George Mason University achieved the coveted “very high research” Carnegie ranking and joined an elite group of 115 top universities.
Using Hip-Hop to Resolve Global Conflict
By Buzz McClain, BA '77 on November 21, 2016
Hip-hop DJs, emcees, beatmakers, and dancers from around the world descended on a hotel conference room in Washington, D.C., this spring to learn how to turn their high-energy musical art into tools for empowerment, entrepreneurship, and conflict resolution.
Teens who lack sleep at greater risk for depression, suicide, warns Mason researcher
By Cathy Cruise, MFA '93 on November 21, 2016
George Mason University psychology professor Adam Winsler is an expert on kids and their development, especially how language, ethnicity, poverty and other factors play a role. Not long ago, he turned his eye toward the importance of sleep, and how a lack of it can deeply affect teenagers’ mental health.
Studying How Whales Swapped Feet for Fins
By Cathy Cruise, MFA '93 on November 2, 2016
Professor Mark D. Uhen in Mason’s Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences has long been fascinated with cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and how they’ve evolved throughout history. While it’s common scientific knowledge these creatures evolved from terrestrial mammals, it was recently discovered that whales evolved from artiodactyls—the “even-toed ungulates” like cows and hippos.
Lyme Disease Bites
By Michele McDonald on July 14, 2016
But a new test can now detect it earlier so treatment can start sooner.
A Fresh Look at Freedom of the Press
By Colleen Kearney Rich on July 12, 2016
In his first book, Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America (Harvard University Press, 2016), Mason historian Sam Lebovic takes a historical look at freedom of the press and asks new questions about the role of the press in American democracy.
Race and Justice in America
By Colleen Kearney Rich on May 4, 2016
In the new book Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System (New York University Press, 2015), Mason criminology, law and society professor Devon Johnson and coeditors Patricia Y. Warren of Florida State University and Amy Farrell of Northwestern University use the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case to explore how highly publicized criminal cases shape public opinion about offenders, the criminal process, and justice in the United States.
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