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Acclaimed Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, author and advocate Rosanne Cash spoke with students at º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Antonin Scalia Law School during an online intellectual property conference held on Sept. 10.

What does social justice look like during a pandemic and a time of racial turmoil? º£½ÇÉçÇø’s John Mitchell Jr. Program for History, Justice and Race (JMJP) has been busy answering that question.

Mason President Gregory Washington offers an overview of the steps the university is taking to operate safely, and to address concerns about one step taken to safely welcome students back.

º£½ÇÉçÇø today is launching the "Do Your Part Campaign" to reinforce the message that safety is a shared responsibility and that our safe return to campus depends on everyone modifying their behavior in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Preparation is underway for what may be the greatest campus-wide challenge the º£½ÇÉçÇø community has ever taken on – our safe return to campus.

This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it would discontinue visa exceptions for international students on F-1 visas who take all of their courses for the semester online. This decision could force hundreds of thousands of international students to leave the United States and threatens to interrupt the academic work of more than 3,000 students here at º£½ÇÉçÇø.

Outside their dorms, students at the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC) have visual access to rare and endangered species. On any given day, you can find them doing field and laboratory work with influential conservation mentors. Midway through the spring semester, the school known for its hands-on conservation training, had to quickly transition their courses online due to COVID-19.

In a move to emphasize its core values, º£½ÇÉçÇø’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution announced on Tuesday that it is dedicating itself to peace and social justice with the adoption of a name dedicated to the Carter legacy: the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

º£½ÇÉçÇø’s School of Music will be renamed the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music, in honor of the Dewberrys’ lifetime legacy of giving and generous support of the school. The decision was approved unanimously at the Feb. 27 Board of Visitors meeting.

Many people are familiar with º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Arlington º£½ÇÉçÇø, but fewer know its unique history, including how it became the only law school with an escalator when the university moved into the old Kann’s department store in the early 1970s.

º£½ÇÉçÇø’s School of Business announced today that software company UiPath is donating $16.4 million in software licenses to help business students learn about robotic technology in classroom assignments and activities.

º£½ÇÉçÇø ranks the highest among all Virginia colleges for the second year in a row for the social mobility of its students, according to a recently released 2019 survey by CollegeNet.