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Join º£½ÇÉçÇø President Gregory Washington as he invites experts, change-makers, innovators, and thought leaders to engage in meaningful conversations about the greatest challenges of our time.
Listen and learn from audacious people from George Mason and beyond who represent the diversity of insight, the agility of collaboration, and the tenacity required in the struggle for a better future that is at the essence of the Mason Nation.

hosts each episode of the Access to Excellence podcast, recorded on the campus of º£½ÇÉçÇø.

On this episode of Access to Excellence, President Gregory Washington is joined by Andre Marshall, vice president for research, innovation, and economic impact, to discuss the recently launched Grand Challenge Initiative (GCI). The initiative is a comprehensive research framework that aligns university resources, faculty expertise, and educational programs around six interconnected solution areas, securing a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous future.

is vice president for research, innovation, and economic impact at º£½ÇÉçÇø and president of the . As the university’s senior research officer, Dr. Marshall provides overall leadership for the portfolio of , innovation, and economic development activities.
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- Mason professor Laurie Robinson, who during the Obama administration was co-chair of the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing, explains a complicated legacy.
- Jeannette Chapman, director of Mason's Stephen S.
- How does Monday and Friday as work-at-home days sound? Mason professors Matt Cronin and Kevin Rockmann talk with John Hollis about how the pandemic could change how we view the office.
- How does rhetoric play into debates about vaccination? Mason professor Heidi Lawrence tells John Hollis about her research into the role that professional communication from physicians, health officials, and researchers plays in shaping public debate and parental beliefs about vaccines.
- University Professor Thomas Lovejoy, known worldwide as the "godfather of biodiversity," tells John Hollis why the great rainforest is so imperiled, and how he fell in love with the region he has visited since 1965 and calls "a biologist
- Mason sport management professor Craig Esherick, a former head coach at Georgetown, tells John Hollis why the tournament might be the best it's ever been, has a new story about Mason's 2006 Final Four run, and discusses different paths t
- Host John Hollis speaks with Shobita Satyapal and Ryan Pfeifle about their discovery of three galaxies with black holes at their centers that, when they collide, could shake apart matter and light up gravitational wave detectors on earth.
- Host John Hollis speaks to Mason’s Wendi Manuel-Scott and George Oberlie about the lives and culture of the slaves at Gunston Hall, and the Enslaved People of George Mason memorial being constructed on Mason’s Fairfax º£½ÇÉçÇø.