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Adjunct faculty member Larrie Ferreiro has authored several books, one of which was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History.

Viviana Maggioni was recently named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

The College of Engineering and Computing’s Office of Outreach, Student Success, and Engagement hosted its annual BLAST Off Week event from September 16-20, 2024. Throughout the week, students attended events focused on themes of belonging, leadership, access, success, and trailblazing.

A new look at autonomous vehicles safety--with an end-to-end, holistic approach--aims to fix vulnerabilities.

After immigrating to the United States as a young man, Peter Cho benefited from having excellent advisers, who led him to an illustrious career in naval engineering. Now, Cho teaches as an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering to pay forward the goodwill he received.  

The Department of Statistics’ Lily Wang and George Washington University’s Huixia Judy Wang are developing scalable, distributed computing methods to analyze large-scale spatiotemporal datasets. The collaborative research project is funded by the National Science Foundation.  

George Mason University bioengineering alumna Alessandra Coogan took advantage of all the opportunities associated with her internship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this summer.

Evgenios Kornaropoulos, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, presented a conference paper at the flagship conference of Computer Security, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May 2024. The paper was a Pwnie Award finalist at the DEFCON Hacking Conference.

George Mason University bioengineering student Berk Kasimcan spent his summer internship working on a proof of concept for what could be described as sunglasses for buildings. 

George Mason's Bioengineering Department chair is working on a novel way to reduce blood clots related to implanted medical devices.

In this role, Shehu will lead the strategy and implementation of AI across research, academics, and partnerships for the university, maximizing opportunity and adoption in addressing the world’s grand challenges while leading on ethical considerations, governance, and risk mitigation.

Amir Hasan, office manager in the Department of Statistics, is the September Employee of the Month.