College of Engineering and Computing News
September 11, 2026New College of Engineering and Computing Assistant Professor Taereem Kim thinks about how weather patterns separated by enormous distances can be connected and, more importantly, how those large-scale atmospheric connections translate into local effects.
September 8, 2026George Mason senior Maddie Gebremichael went from curious freshman intern to future geotechnical engineer. As an intern at Terracon, she helps determine whether construction sites can support major projects, while building a strong career foundation of her own.
September 8, 2026EagleBank Arena buzzed with high-tech aerial excitement on August 15 as George Mason University hosted the culmination of the 2nd Annual Airborne Robotics Cup, a STEM outreach competition culminating in an intense 12-hour tournament featuring dynamic, lighter-than-air autonomous blimp “soccer” matches.
September 4, 2026George Mason University alum Cheyenne Bajani turned her passion for embedded systems into a Micron internship through the Virginia Microelectronics Consortium.
September 3, 2026Two George Mason faculty members are developing new approaches to protect AI data centers from threats ranging from insiders stealing valuable AI models to cyberattacks against the systems controlling a facility’s power and cooling.
September 2, 2026George Mason University and Oxford-based frontier computing company TreQ announced a groundbreaking partnership this week to bring open-architecture quantum infrastructure to the Commonwealth of Virginia beginning with the first open-architecture quantum computing system in the state and National Capital Region.
August 31, 2026Thema Monroe-White is helping prepare the next generation not just to use the AI, but to navigate it thoughtfully and responsibly.
August 27, 2026Air pollution is changing, and George Mason researchers are studying what that means for humans.
August 26, 2026A new collaboration between George Mason University’s Injury Analytics Lab and Southern Africa Nazarene University in Eswatini will improve tools to document injuries in underrepresented populations locally and globally, while also strengthening research capacity in Eswatini.
August 25, 2026Not Quite Laughs, a comedy group founded by a George Mason student, is hosting a free comedy show on Thursday, August 27th, at Mackenzie’s Tunes and Tonics in Fairfax.
August 24, 2026Board of Visitors member Shawn Chambliss Purvis honors her father with a $50,000 scholarship for George Mason electrical and computer engineering students.
August 21, 2026From robotics to AI to makerspaces, George Mason's summer camps let students build with emerging tech and learn to use it responsibly.