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The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved �鶹��Ƶ’s proposal to set the stage for a reorganization of the Volgenau School of Engineering to a newly formed College of Engineering and Computing, comprising the proposed School of Computing and Volgenau School of Engineering. The College of Engineering and Computing will be led by Ken Ball. The change will become effective on April 1, 2021.

An American Council on Education (ACE) Task Force of college and university presidents and chancellors released a report Monday highlighting the ADVANCE Program, a partnership between �鶹��Ƶ and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) as an example of successful collaboration to improve transfer student success.

�鶹��Ƶ President Gregory Washington praised the �鶹��Ƶ community for its collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “as great of a team effort as I’ve ever seen in academia,” in remarks at a general faculty meeting Wednesday, which was televised on GMU-TV.

�鶹��Ƶ’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution will host its Spring 2021 Peace Week virtually March 22-26, focusing on how to foster anti-racism approaches in the field of conflict resolution in the United States and around the world.

This is the National Society of Black Engineers Week, with festivities taking place all week.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation that approves �鶹��Ƶ for the highest level of institutional management autonomy granted to Virginia public colleges and universities, a milestone achievement for �鶹��Ƶ, the state’s youngest public research institution.

�鶹��Ƶ was named a “Voter Friendly Campus” as the result of a campus-wide strategy to increase voter turnout. �鶹��Ƶ is one of more than 231 colleges and universities across 37 states and the District of Columbia to earn this designation.

In the next installment of the Office of the Provost’s �鶹��Ƶ Vision Series, �鶹��Ƶ epidemiologist Amira Roess will address “COVID-19: A Vision for Future Response.”

�鶹��Ƶ's Employee of the Month program is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month of highlighting the achievements of �鶹��Ƶ’s staff. The program has recognized the hard work of 360 �鶹��Ƶ employees since its inception in 1991.

Allison Redlich, a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a colleague at Central Michigan University have received a collaborative National Science Foundation grant of $385,000 to study wrongful convictions within the U.S. criminal justice system.

The eastern region of Ukraine has been an intense battleground since 2014, when Russia controversially annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and invaded the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. Though a ceasefire was called, it has been violated daily. More than 10,000 people have died and roughly 1.6 million are registered as internally displaced people (IDP). But a step toward hope and peace may be on the horizon, thanks to �鶹��Ƶ’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and their new project funded by a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.