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Two Schar School learning communities visited two seats of the federal government at the same time on the same day. Here’s where they went and what they did.

With $40,000 in seed funding up for grabs, �鶹��Ƶ undergraduate students and recent alumni are preparing to pitch their business ideas to a panel of local business professionals and �鶹��Ƶ alumni on Thursday, April 13 at the School of Business Patriot Pitch Competition.

In fall 2022, �鶹��Ƶ physics major Billy Bates ran for Fairfax City Council and won. He was sworn in in January.

Game �鶹��Ƶ: Hosted by Student Involvement and the Center for the Arts (CFA), in collaboration with GMU Esports and the computer game design program, this year’s event at the Fairfax Campus on March 3-4 had classic arcade games like Pinball and Ms. Pac-Man, an Esports tournament, and more.

The 2023 ASEE SE conference brought together engineering educators, industry leaders, and students to discuss and learn about the importance of promoting a diverse, digitally prepared workforce within engineering and STEM education paths.

Food insecurity is something that Drew Bonner, a second-year sociology PhD student at �鶹��Ƶ, experienced before he knew what to call it.

Faculty and staff from the College of Engineering and Computing and the �鶹��Ƶ Innovation Exchange (MIX) hosted a toy-building event for Innovation Week that promotes engineering activities for a good cause.

�鶹��Ƶ’s new Youth Research Council (YRC) is a research partnership between the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and �鶹��Ƶ’s Early Identification Program (EIP), which invites ninth through twelfth graders into the field of social science research.

When �鶹��Ƶ students sign up for Video Production for Social Change, they won’t just learn in a traditional classroom setting, they’ll make an impact in their community.

In writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights, U.S. Founding Father George �鶹��Ƶ IV took a stand for individual rights. His ardent defense would later inform the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution’s Bill of Rights—documents critical for securing liberties.

But a challenging irony rests in �鶹��Ƶ’s words versus his actions.