Community Engagement

Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s oldest and largest festival of literature and the arts, kicks off its 26th season in the City of Fairfax on Saturday, Oct. 12, and runs through Oct. 18.

With the start of the fall semester comes the much-anticipated Movers and Shakers Mixer, the annual networking event connecting George Mason University students with influential business, community, and government executives at Mason Square in Arlington.

The GRAMMY Award-winning Villalobos Brothers are redefining contemporary Mexican music, while delivering positive messages of brotherhood, equity, and love.

Mason Korea, in partnership with the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education and the GM Employee Foundation Korea, hosted the inaugural Global Career Camp in July.

A statewide literacy project designed to counteract the educational impacts of the pandemic is now in full swing, thanks to the efforts of educators in George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).

Students from George Mason University’s Department of Nutrition and Food Studies recently visited the men and women of Fairfax Fire Station 33. They taught the firefighters about responsible nutrition habits and cooked nutritious meals for them in the station’s kitchen.

Mason's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School, the top-ranked national public institution for peace and conflict resolution, has partnered with Rotary International, one of the largest global membership service organizations, to provide education and develop modalities to assist Rotary clubs in promoting local, regional, and global peace

The Movers and Shakers Mixer event returned to Mason Square in late September, connecting George Mason University students with Arlington’s business, government, and community leaders.

Mason alum Alex Hussein (BS Information Systems and Operations Management ‘21), who is also known as @DC Spot, shares his recommendations for a few must-go-restaurants in local Fairfax. Alex is a food influencer with over 215,000 Instagram followers. His videos feature eateries throughout the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas.

Two Mason centers will collaborate on a project that aims to better connect research to practice in education policymaking, and support school divisions in improving student and teacher performance and enhancing the effectiveness and fairness of resource allocation through data-driven decision making.