Military

The first students in a new Headquarters Marine Corps program, which makes higher education opportunities available to Marine Corps Officers, began studies in July at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

The associate athletic director for academics and intercollegiate athletics is a well-known personality around Northern Virginia, and has positively affected lives and futures as an adjunct professor, evinced by the binder full of laudatory letters sent to him by former students in his GOVT 351 class, Administration in the Political System.

When Aubrey Whitehead counsels his daughter, Khaliah, about schoolwork, he tells the high school senior to focus less on grades and more on inquiry.

Each year System Engineering students from around the country gather at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point NY, to test their wits against the best system engineers in the nation. Thirteen teams from the George Mason University's systems engineering department competed this year.

Veterans are front and center year-round at George Mason University, not only today on Veterans Day.

After almost nine years of military service, Frank Ellin, BS Tourism and Events Management ’13, decided to separate, honorably and at the height of his career, from the United States Marine Corps.

Retired Col. Charles Bailey knows firsthand how satisfying a research career in the military can be and wants to attract more military students to do their graduate work at George Mason University.

Joshua, a two-year-old black Labrador Retriever, padded through the Johnson Center last Wednesday afternoon during prime lunch time as he made his way to the Office of Military Services. Despite the distractions of food smells and loud chattering of students, Josh dutifully followed his trainer’s lead.