March 27, 2008
Mason has received a $500,000 grant from the Century Council to fund a two-year research initiative that aims to set the benchmark for all future studies undertaken to combat underage drinking.
The “Understanding Teen Drinking Cultures in America” study is designed to better understand the psychological and sociological factors that affect adolescents as they make decisions regarding whether to engage in alcohol-related behaviors.
March 27, 2008
The spring Information Technology Unit (ITU) Projects Briefing will be held on Tuesday, April 1, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Research I, Room 163, on the Fairfax Campus.
March 26, 2008
Mason’s women’s lacrosse, track and field, softball and rowing squads were in action recently, as well as the men’s volleyball, track and field and baseball teams.
March 26, 2008
Internationally acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel returns to Mason’s Center for the Arts, performing the second of this season’s trademark “concert with commentary” series, Keyboard Conversations.
March 26, 2008
It used to be that when you thought of an entrepreneur you pictured a small business owner. Today, however, being an entrepreneur is as much about being a leader, having innovative ideas and understanding the needs of the market as it is about starting and managing a business.
March 26, 2008
The Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium, “Intended to Provoke: Social Action in Visual Culture[s],” will be held Thursday, March 27, in the Johnson Center Cinema on the Fairfax Campus.
March 25, 2008
Founded in 1966 as the first Theatre of Ballet in Russia, St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre is led by international ballet laureate Yuri Petukhov, who continues to build the company’s extensive repertoire of classical and modern ballet.
March 25, 2008
Just one year after winning a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Fellowship to research elderly self-employment for an aging U.S. economy, Ting Zhang, PhD Public Policy ‘08, has signed a contract with World Scientific Publishing to produce a book focusing on the same topic.
March 25, 2008
Jagadish Shukla, an internationally known climatologist and founder of the graduate Climate Dynamics Program at Mason, will be teaching a course for undergraduates and general education students for the first time in his more than 10 years at Mason.
March 25, 2008
All faculty and staff members are invited to a budget forum on Monday, March 31, hosted by Provost Peter Stearns and Senior Vice President Maurice Scherrens.
