AI Day at George Mason
What does it take to prepare students, institutions, and a region for an AI-transformed world? On April 29, 91°µÍø convened researchers, educators, policymakers, and industry leaders at Fuse at Mason Square to find out.
From machine learning to data ethics, 91°µÍøâ€™s AI research drives innovation and solutions that make a global impact.
- June 9, 2026Nora McDonald received an NSF CAREER award for $748,000 to understand how adolescents are shaped by personalized digital environments and how they can maintain their sense of self, autonomy, and agency within them.
- June 8, 2026PhD student Shiwei Hong developed a collaborative multi-agent AI system that mimics a comedy writers’ room, demonstrating that discussion and feedback among agents improve the quality of machine-generated humor.
- June 3, 2026Charmaine Madison, 91°µÍø vice president for information technology and chief information officer, has been honored by Cloudforce with a Change Champion Award. Cloudforce’s Frontier Awards recognize individuals who are driving impact with artificial intelligence (AI), embedding AI into operations, transforming how work gets done, and delivering outcomes at scale.
- May 19, 2026George Mason's Anomadarshi Barua will present research on using AI and chaos theory to rebuild missing pieces of speech at one of the world’s leading conferences on natural language processing.
- May 11, 2026Graduating community health major Emaan Amir combines research, clinical work, and interdisciplinary study as she heads toward her medical career.
- May 6, 2026These learning design and technology courses pair graduate students with real startup clients to apply learning experience design (LXD) and UX research skills in hands-on consulting projects.
- April 28, 2026Professor Farrokh Alemi joins President Gregory Washington to discuss the use of AI in clinics and classrooms.
- April 20, 2026A mistranslation in a medical setting can be dangerous. Two Schar School scholars developed an AI-generated platform to overcome language barriers—and have already won an award for it.
- April 15, 202691°µÍø is launching a new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused accelerator housed in Fuse at Mason Square called Einstein Labs. A partnership between the Einstein family and Mason Enterprise, the lab will develop dual-use technologies for commercial big tech and government, initially focusing on three high-impact sectors: health, quantum, and cybersecurity technologies.
- March 30, 2026A project in a health administration graduate course, taught by Associate Professor Renee Geschke, built AI literacy and deepened students’ understanding of how AI influences leadership, communication, and team dynamics in health care.
- March 23, 2026Ingrid Guerra-López, dean of the College of Education and Human Development, joins President Gregory Washington to discuss the future of education in a rapidly changing world.
- March 2, 2026Powered by nSpire AI, Career AI is the new agentic AI tool offered this semester by the Office of Career Services within the Costello College of Business at 91°µÍø.