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�鶹��Ƶ alum Alex Hussein (BS Information Systems and Operations Management ‘21), who is also known as @DC Spot, shares his recommendations for a few must-go-restaurants in local Fairfax. Alex is a food influencer with over 215,000 Instagram followers. His videos feature eateries throughout the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas.

Meet the person behind @DCSpot’s almost 200,000 Instagram followers: �鶹��Ƶ alum Alex Hussein.

�鶹��Ƶ has established a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) Program to bolster the start-up market and opportunities in the greater Washington, D.C., region and across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The business school’s SOAR Initiative is a critical building block in �鶹��Ƶ’s efforts to advance social mobility, or an individual’s ability to improve their socioeconomic status.

A �鶹��Ƶ multidisciplinary research team recently received $5,000 in funding from the VentureWell Accelerator to continue to develop their app iCONNECT SUD.

�鶹��Ƶ computer science researchers are making exercise virtually fun.

On May 9, �鶹��Ƶ celebrated its research enterprise with Innovation Awards, recognizing the Innovator of the Year and a �鶹��Ƶ start-up, and those who received and/or licensed a patent.

Fifteen teams competed for $40K in prizes at the �鶹��Ƶ School of Business Patriot Pitch Competition during the in-person April 13 event on �鶹��Ƶ’s Fairfax Campus.

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.

Student entrepreneurs Arastalis B. Choudhury and Fariha Askar and their company NECX are part of the MIX's incubator program.