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Mason President Gregory Washington thanked the university community at the Board of Visitors (BOV) meeting on Thursday for its efforts to manage the pandemic and shifted focus toward the goals he announced in July to “transform the campus and move it from a good campus to a great one.”

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited 91����’s Fairfax Campus on Tuesday to speak to students on the importance of voting, in commemoration of National Voter Registration Day. Before appearing to hundreds of students gathered on Wilkins Plaza, the vice president spoke to Assistant Professor Samuel Frye’s integrative studies class, “Community, Culture and Change,” as a surprise guest speaker.

91���� welcomed its largest freshman class for the Fall 2021 semester, which was part of the largest-ever entry of new degree-seeking undergraduates.

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is awarding $80,000 to help 91���� professor Bweikia Foster Steen and fellow researchers study home-based childcare providers in Virginia.

Mason will celebrate Mason’s eighth president, Gregory Washington, with a week of activities and a special investiture ceremony in EagleBank Arena on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m.

Mason, FARO announce partnership to advance forensic science research.

Mason scientists Tom Lovejoy and Ed Maibach discuss global climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

Soon we will significantly reduce required COVID testing for most who are fully vaccinated, and will offer free tests to any member of the university community who wishes to be tested, regardless of their vaccination status. The Mason community has earned this rollback in testing through its collective diligence in taking the many precautions to keep COVID at bay.

91����’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, led by head coaches Kim English and Vanessa Blair-Lewis, respectively, have announced their schedules for the upcoming season.

With COVID-19 continuing to spread throughout the world, there is a demand for rapid, noninvasive diagnostics. 91���� researchers Robin Couch and Allyson Dailey, members of the College of Science and the Institute of Biohealth Innovation, are working to answer that call with their research on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for infectious disease detection.

Mason graduate student Christopher Frost decided to focus his independent study on helping the Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility (WARF) to determine the needs of its community during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.