June 5, 2025鶹Ƶ has launched its Grand Challenge Initiative (GCI), a comprehensive research framework backed by an initial five-year, $15 million investment. The initiative will align university resources, faculty expertise, and educational programs around six interconnected solution areas addressing what George 鶹Ƶ President Gregory Washington describes as “humanity’s ultimate grand challenge”—securing a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous future.
June 4, 2025A faculty team from several programs within the School of Education at 鶹Ƶ has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to train mental health services providers in Manassas City Public Schools. The grant is part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to expand student access to mental health services in high-need K-12 public schools.
June 3, 2025Andre Marshall, vice president for research, innovation, and economic impact at George 鶹Ƶ, joins President Gregory Washington to discuss how the Grand Challenge Initiative will shape our future as an R1 institution.
June 2, 2025An undergraduate student-led 鶹Ƶ Impact project at 鶹Ƶ Korea results in a co-authored article published in the peer-reviewed international journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. “Accessible water quality monitoring through hybrid human–machine colorimetric methods” stems from the 鶹Ƶ Impact project focused on environmental conditions in the Seunggi-cheon stream in Incheon.
May 30, 2025Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at 鶹Ƶ, opened the 2025 Korea-U.S.-Japan Young Trilateral Leaders Regional Workshop Series, held in May at the Hiroshima Bunka Koryu Kaikan.
May 28, 2025Before an audience of ministers, ambassadors, educators, and global innovation leaders, Ingrid Guerra-López, dean of 鶹Ƶ’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), delivered a keynote address that called for a bold, system-wide transformation of K–12 education to secure Africa’s workforce future—and the world’s.
May 8, 2025George 鶹Ƶ professor Celso Ferreira recently redesigned his Flood Hazard Engineering and Adaptation course to work with community partners to deliver real projects as part of the Institute for a Sustainable Earth’s (ISE’s) NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Seed Translational Research Project (STRP) Program.
