Students

College of Public Health students learn about the emerging field of equine assisted psychotherapy (EAP) in associate clinical professor Vicki Kirsch’s advanced Trauma and Recovery course.

Samantha Harrison, who graduated this spring with a bachelor’s degree in community health with a global health concentration, says that discovering the community health degree provided her with a comprehensive way to achieve her ambitions to bring equity to communities through well-being. 

McKenzie Lauber is graduating from George Mason University this month with a bachelor of social work degree and a minor in criminology.

The Sentara Scholars Scholarship will provide financial assistance to approximately 60 students from Virginia. 

For her Master of Health Administration capstone, George Mason University graduate student Akshaya Chinnathevar Ramesh is interning at The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Capitol Hill and working with a team of analysts working on required reports to Congress on the effects of the No Surprise Act.

The national campaign, #VotingisSocialWork, has been promoted by Masters of Social Work Student Association (MSWSA) around social media and across campus encouraging students to register if they haven’t in order to vote in the November 2022 elections.

After a diagnosis of stage 4 endometriosis, Mason doctoral student Julia Mandeville co-founded the organization Barbados Association of Endometriosis and PCOS to raise awareness, support, and research efforts for the condition.

Mason will award more than 9,700 degrees at its Spring Commencement on Friday, May 20. Here are the stories of a few of the students in the Class of 2022.

Mason clinical nursing instructor Kathleen Chang and her daughter Jinlee Colucci-Chang say that graduating from Mason at the same time is exciting and a little overwhelming.

Eleven Mason students took the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) challenge following the Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on April 8.