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Enjoy these heartwarming moments of accomplishment at ������Ƶ's Spring 2024 Commencement.

Alumna Sophie Wozniak spoke to International Relations Policy Task Force students about how the Schar School influenced her career path.

Brittany Mullins, BS Marketing ’07, found her professional niche while studying at the Costello College of Business at ������Ƶ. Since graduating, she has founded and ran her successful brand, Eating Bird Food, providing healthy recipes and more to her loyal followers.

The keynote speaker at the Degree Celebration on May 10 will be 2023 Restaurateur of the Year Rose Previte. Find out how her Master of Public Policy degree helped her open her first award-winning restaurant.

Once a year, ������Ƶ invites its community—alumni, faculty, staff, students, and their families–to unite in philanthropy on Mason Vision Day. This year, on April 4, they did so enthusiastically, raising $1,309,345 for the university’s students, research, and programs.

An international political consultant became persona non grata in Russia after leaving the Schar School. Read why Russia kicked Jason Jay Smart out.

Mason's Alumni Association has established the Amy Takayama-Perez Memorial Student Book Award to honor Mason alumna and former colleague Amy Takayama-Perez, BA Sociology ’96, MEd ’02.

Despite pursuing different degrees within the College of Visual and Performing Arts, each of these alumni found transformative connections during their Mason experience, impacting their outlook on the world as well as their creative futures.

Gary T. Taylor, MSW ‘15, is destigmatizing mental health support and normalizing therapy in the Black community one barbershop at a time. “Barbershops are this safe space for Black men,” explains Taylor who has been working with local barbershops in the Rappahannock region since 2022 to foster healthy discussions about mental health by educating barbers on “mental health first aid” for their patrons.

Co-founded in 2018 by Trevor Montano, BS Accounting ’00, and Derek Horstmeyer, a professor of finance at the Costello College of Business at ������Ƶ, the Montano Student Investment Fund (SMIF) is an all-equity investment fund administered by finance students at the Costello College of Business.