News
October, 2009
Come visit our table at the Autumn Conservation Festival, Oct 3-4 at CRC
September, 2009
Dr. Marchant to speak at Lord Fairfax Community College, Middletown Campus, Science & Health Bldg 145, 9/25 7pm about the Smithsonian Mason Alliance and Semester Program
CAA Deans to Meet at the Conservation and Research Center 9/11.
Welcome Week Academic Day 9/1, 11-3, Johnson Center North Plaza
Welcome Week Reception 9/3, 4:30-6, Johnson Center Assembly Room D
August, 2009
E. Leaman,"Where do Zoo Babies Come From?" Washingtonian (Article about research at the Conservation and Research Center)
May-June, 2009
Spring 2009 Students featured in Zoogoer Magazine | Podcast.
April 18, 2009
Semester Students Support Sally Ride Science Festival!
March 24, 2009
Semester students keep watch for the birth of Clouded Leopard Cubs!
February 1, 2009
Washington Times article on the Conservation and Research Center: Zoo Outpost on Front Line of Research
November 14, 2008
Mason has approved the Smithsonian-Mason Semester Courses (16 credits) as a minor. Please email smithsem@gmu.edu for advising.
October 4-5, 2008
Come visit our table at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park's Autumn Conservation Festival in Front Royal at the Conservation and Research Center!
September 25, 2008
The Mason Board of Visitors and Smithsonian Regents create an alliance to offer undergraduate, graduate, and professional training in conservation studies.
August 22, 2008
The Smithsonian-Mason Semester is cited as one of the innovations that has led US News and World Report to rank Mason as the top University to watch. See the Gazette article at: http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/12396/.
July 13-16, 2008
Mason professor Tom Wood, Smithsonian educators Jennifer Sevin and Jennifer Buff, and Smithsonian-Mason Semester graduates Allison Dodson, Sarah Mallette, Nikki Oteyza, and Michelle Waterman attended the Society for Conservation Biology Meeting in Chattanooga, TN. Mason and Smithsonian staffed a booth at the conference to let the society know about the exciting new programs under development by Mason and Smithsonian.