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Statistics students and faculty can find Associate Chair Brett Hunter in his office with the door open most every day of the week, and this year, his dedication and many contributions to the department earned him the college’s Outstanding Service Award. 

Bo Han, a computer science professor in the College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University, is working with colleagues Songqing Chen, Parth Pathak, and Craig Yu to create a research infrastructure capable of connecting extended reality experiences across varying distances.

The Fulcrum: Max Albanese (CEC) co-authors an op-ed about the role of Generation Z in securing America’s elections.

With data centers consuming about 2% of the world's electricity, their immense energy consumption and carbon footprint are a pressing concern in the technology sector. Doctoral student Sajad Kargar can help.

The applied computer science program at Mason prepares students for CS-related jobs in many different fields.

An article by Nora MacDonald on teens and social media is featured in The Conversation.

Divisional Dean Gurdip Singh is quoted in Tribune India about safety on U.S. Campuses.

Aditya Johri earned recognition for his book the International Handbook of Engineering Education Research.

Information sciences and technology doctoral students Sajad Kargar, Ashish Hingle, and Julia Hsin-ping Hsu won first, second, and third place awards at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing Innovation Week 2024 graduate poster contest in February.

IST’s Myeong Lee received a  $150,000 grant from the Virginia Board of People with Disabilities for the Mapping Information Ecology project. “We want to provide information systems strategies, [structural] recommendations, and related policy recommendations to the state. That's our goal," said Lee.  

Students and faculty will present three papers about strategies to help teens navigate the digital ecosystem safely at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

On March 21, 2024, Break Through Tech Mason hosted "A Day in the Life: Tech Jobs Unveiled," a panel event featuring Jamie Bowers, Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft; Veeraj Modi, Security Analyst at Microsoft; and Cassandra Rothrauff, Senior Computer Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton. Each panelist discussed their path in the tech industry as well as advice they would offer students just starting out.