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For Sophia Nguyen and Celine Apenteng, George Mason University’s new student body president and vice president, respectively, accountability to their fellow students is paramount.

Honors College alumni, Abigail Hawkins, has been selected for the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals program. Hawkins, who graduated from Mason in May 2022, majored in global affairs with concentrations in human security and Middle East and North Africa Studies, and a minor in Arabic.  

Through the Global Engagement Scholar Program, undergraduate students in George Mason University School of Business have an opportunity they shouldn’t pass up to examine their own biases, cultural values, and learn how to contribute to a dynamic and global workforce.

Juan Escalera is a senior Marketing and economics major and began his time in the Honors College in the EIP.

While in the hospital because of the injury he sustained playing basketball, Mason biology major Sean Diment decided to change his major and study to become a health care provider.

Each spring, Dewberry Hall fills up with students and faculty, with crowds spilling over into the hallway to celebrate the spring research exhibition and award ceremony

Jasmine Okidi, a third-year University Scholar studying English, was selected as Mason’s first-ever recipient of the Beinecke Scholarship.

Alexandra Anderson, a BS Honors College student-athlete at George Mason University (GMU) was awarded the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.

Students like Sosale encapsulate Mason’s spirit of innovative and engaging undergraduate scholarship. Next year, the Goldwater Scholarship, which provides up to $7,500 as a stipend to its recipients will allow Sosale to continue her research, and help propel her academic career forward.

The Honors College class on the “100th Meridian Project” involves a multidisciplinary investigation into the water crisis in the American West.

Roger Wilkins, a Robinson Professor from 1986 to 2007, and for whom Wilkins Plaza on Mason’s Fairfax Campus is named, died in 2017 at age 85, but his legacy at the university remains strong.

As part of an effort to research and record local history, Mason graduate and undergraduate students, along with faculty, have begun documenting Black students who attended Mason and the Black communities that once existed in Fairfax County.