January 31, 2005
Following are members of the George Mason community who made presentations to community groups in September as part of the University Speakers Bureau. For more information on participating in the Speakers Bureau, call 703-993-8846.
January 31, 2005
Janette Kenner Muir, associate dean of New Century College (NCC), will be stepping down from that position when her term ends in July after six years on the job. She will go back to full-time teaching at the university. A national search is now under way to replace her.
January 31, 2005
Distancing himself from comments made by his secretary of technology last fall, Virginia Gov. Mark Warner told ExecutiveBiz e-magazine recently that George Mason University has the potential to become a major research institution.
January 31, 2005
The George Mason community is invited to participate in a candlelight vigil ceremony on Wednesday to remember the victims of the tsunami. The International Student Umbrella organization (ISU) is organizing the event.
January 31, 2005
This year’s Black History Month celebration at George Mason focuses on the Niagara Movement, a turn-of-the-century effort to promote racial justice that was led by W.E.B. DuBois. The movement also aimed to counteract the racially conservative philosophy of the Tuskegee Institute’s Booker T. Washington, who gained national attention when he outlined his proposal of racial accommodation in 1895. The Niagara Movement promoted eight principles that laid the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance era and the creation of the NAACP.
January 31, 2005
William H. McFarlane, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, died on Jan. 26 at the age of 83. He had Parkinson’s disease.
January 28, 2005
George Mason University Police and Sexual Assault Services will present a two-day, 12-hour women’s self-defense course to university-affiliated women beginning Saturday, Feb. 5.
January 28, 2005
Following are highlights of national news coverage George Mason received during the past week:
January 28, 2005
By Robin Herron
A panel discussion on the upcoming election in Iraq sponsored by George Mason’s Center for Global Studies and the Iraqi American Alliance on Wednesday showed Iraqis disagree on whether elections should be held now or postponed until there is less violence and more stability in the country.
January 28, 2005
The featured work for the 2005 Text and Community Project is William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Published in 1984, the science fiction novel is credited with popularizing the now-commonplace terms “cyberspace,” “cyberpunk,” and “the matrix.”