August 19, 2025From data centers to the National Geographic Museum, civil engineering student Esmeralda Martinez is building her future one project at a time. Through hands-on internships with HITT Contracting and lessons from George Mason classrooms, she’s shaping a career that blends technical skills, leadership, and a passion for construction.
July 30, 2025George Mason University’s civil engineers are assessing the climate change challenges facing some of the world’s highest mountain ranges, creating better ways to measure the melting ice in high elevations where temperatures are rising faster than average and putting pressure on the livelihoods of fragile cultures and ecologies.
October 1, 2024New CEC professor Catalina Gonzalez-Duenas studies how communities are impacted by large-scale disasters.
January 22, 2024Mason engineering professor Kuo Tian is monitoring landfills to make sure our trash doesn't contaminate drinking water.
January 2, 2024A Mason civil engineering student has already landed a job upon graduation…and his first assignment will be Project Engineer for a major new building on the Fairfax campus.
October 23, 2023Americans generally assume tap water is safe to drink; but rising temperatures could prove them wrong. Kirin Emlet Furst received a grant to study how extreme heat is challenging the disinfection of water in underground distribution systems.
October 20, 2022Civil engineering student Amber Brown discusses her summer internship at the Federal Highway Administration.
September 26, 2022Civil engineering student China Brown overcame challenges to achieve her dream. She will join Shirley Construction as a full-time engineer after graduating this December.
March 23, 2022Two PhD students will compete in Mason's Three Minute Thesis finals.
December 6, 2021Kirin Furst believes a systems approach is the best way to solve the world’s safe water problems. Her research lab is primarily focused on removing organic contaminants in drinking water systems and potable reuse systems.
