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| The George Mason University Alumni E-Newsletter | June 2009 |
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Alumni Association & Chapter News
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Alumni Association News |
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IT Executive Alumnus Speaks at GMU Business Roundtable on June 23 The next meeting of the GMU Business Roundtable will be on June 23 from 7:45-9:00 a.m. at Access National Bank in Reston. The guest speaker will be Mason alumnus Don Rainey, MS Bioscience Management '08, general partner of Grotech Ventures. Among his many achievements, Rainey was recently appointed for a second term as an emerging technology consultant to the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Defense through the DeVenCi program. RSVP>
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Alumni Networking Social in Arlington on June 25 On
Thursday, June 25 from 8:00-10:00 p.m., the Mason Alumni Association
and the School of Public Policy Alumni Chapter will host a networking
social at Mei's Asian Bistro in Arlington. Please join us! MORE
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Alumnus Wins Walt Whitman Award for Poetry The Academy of American Poets recently announced that J. Michael Martinez, MFA '06, has been selected to receive the 2009 Walt Whitman Award. The award is one of the most prestigious first-book prizes in the country.
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only does the academy arrange to publish the winner's poetry
collection, but it distributes the book to thousands of academy
members. The award also includes a $5,000 cash prize and a one-month
residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international
artists' and writers' residency program in the United States. MORE> |
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Five New Members Elected to Alumni
Association Board for 2009-2010
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Follow the Mason Spirit on Twitter For the latest events, news, and information about all things Mason, follow the Mason Spirit, your university magazine, on Twitter! We "tweet" several times a day in order to keep the Mason community tuned into what's new on campus and with students, faculty, staff, and, of course, alumni. You can see what's going on by following @MasonSpirit or going directly to our page. FOLLOW MASON SPIRIT>
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New Program Gets Campus Community Reading, Including Alumni Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia's largest and oldest literary celebration, is launching a new program, Campus Community Reads. Alumni are encouraged to join Mason students, faculty, and staff members in reading novels over the summer months by two writers headlining the 2009 festival, Fairfax Prize winner E.L. Doctorow and Mason Award winner Sherman Alexie. MORE> |
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Farmers' Market Continues on Campus through Summer Mason's Farmers' Market on the Fairfax Campus is open in the summer on Wednesdays in Lot K. The campus and surrounding communities can shop for fresh seasonal produce from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each week. Photo courtesy of Creative Services
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Mason Scientist Studies the Ultimate Cookie Monster Black holes have been described as "the ultimate cookie monster." Lev Titarchuk, research professor in computational and data sciences in Mason's College of Science, recently developed an innovative technique that allows scientists to gauge how large or small a black hole may be. MORE> |
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Mason Community Donates More Than 1,100 Books to Charity More than 1,100 books filling 46 boxes were collected this spring for Books for Africa through Better World Books. The Center for Leadership and Community Engagement, University Services, the George Mason University Bookstore, and Recycling and Waste Management collaborated to spearhead the project. MORE> |
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Music, AVT, and Dance to Become Schools Keeping in line with other state
university arts programs of the same size and stature, departments
within Mason's College of Visual and Performing Arts will become
individual schools this
fall. The Departments of Music, Art and Visual
Technology, and Dance will become the School of Music, the
School of Art, and the School of Dance. MORE> |
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Professor's Research Focuses on Birds, Bees, and Elephants Just as humans reveal much about themselves through their behavior, animals do the same. And for animal behaviorists such as Elizabeth Freeman, assistant professor in New Century College, any sneeze, dance, or stomp could be the key to unlocking the mystery behind why animals do what they do. MORE>
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Patriot Sports |
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Young Alumni Night at Nationals Park on July 17 The Patriot Club invites all graduates from the last three years to Mason Young Alumni Night at Nationals Park on Friday, July 17. The event includes a pre-game gathering at Finn McCool's Irish Publick House as well as the 7:05 p.m. game versus the Chicago Cubs. Sign up today! MORE INFO> |
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Henderson Selected First Team All-America in Baseball The Mason baseball team season ended when the Patriots were eliminated from the Greenville Regional of the NCAA Tournament, falling to Binghamton 11-6. During the tournament, Chris Henderson became the first Mason baseball player in school history to receive first-team All-America honors. MORE>
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Men's Soccer Inducts Three New Members in Hall of Fame The 2009 class into the Mason Men's Soccer Hall of Fame includes a pair of goalkeepers, Henry Castaneda (1971-1974) and John O'Hara (2001-2004), and forward John Kelly (1991-1994). With the induction of the 2009 class, the total number of members of the Men's Soccer Hall of Fame stands at 16. MORE> |
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