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This week, the Governor’s Office issued new guidance on how universities could conduct commencement ceremonies this spring based on revised COVID-19 restrictions.

�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.

Tuesday’s mass murder in Atlanta returns us to terrible, familiar ground, as we try again to make sense of violence, and calm the terror that was already building within an entire cultural community.

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.