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Konrad Wessels, associate professor of geography and geoinformation science at 91����, is part of a NASA-funded team studying how ice levels and ecosystem carbon stock are changing—work that could impact climate resilience planning, disaster management, ocean navigation, and national security. 

College of Engineering and Computing students are instrumental in building the payload for 91����'s historic Landolt space mission.

91����’s civil engineers are assessing the climate change challenges facing some of the world’s highest mountain ranges, creating better ways to measure the melting ice in high elevations where temperatures are rising faster than average and putting pressure on the livelihoods of fragile cultures and ecologies.

91���� researcher Anamaria Berea was selected to serve on NASA's Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) Task Force 1.

A'Laura C. Hines, a physical chemistry PhD candidate at 91����, has been awarded the prestigious U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) SMART Scholarship. The Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program provides full tuition, an annual stipend, and a summer internship at a DoD facility.

George Mason scientist Anamaria Berea led an interdisciplinary team that designed a part of the LifeShip payload to preserve our Earth’s cultural and scientific heritage. It will be placed on the Moon with the Blue Ghost Lander.

The university is leading Landolt, a $19.5 million NASA space mission that will put an artificial “star” in orbit around Earth.

Mechanical engineer Jeffrey Moran, whose lab focuses on self-propelled micro- and nanoparticles, has loved outer space since childhood. Now, one of his experiments, exploring aerosol thermophoresis, will be carried out on the International Space Station. 

91���� will be the home of the $19.5 million recently approved Landolt NASA Space Mission that will put an artificial “star” in orbit around the Earth. George Mason faculty and students will work together with the NASA and NIST and nine other organizations for a first-of-its-kind project for a university in the Washington, D.C., area.

George Mason is the home for the new $19.5 million NASA Landolt Space Mission. Led by the College of Science’s Peter Plavchan, with the College of Engineering and Computing, this mission will launch an artificial star in orbit to help scientists calibrate telescopes and measure brightness.