While many college sports fans are familiar with the George Mason University Men’s Basketball team’s run to the Final Four in 2006, not as many know about the Mason Women’s Soccer team’s National Championship title of 21 years earlier. The author of this post recalls reading about this achievement in the student newspaper, then called Broadside, while […]
Celebrating “Nobelity”: Thirty Years Later On the morning of October 16, 1986 Dr. James M. Buchanan received a phone call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informing him that he had been selected as the winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. It had been nearly fifty years since he […]
SC&A has completed two new exhibits of materials from its holdings. On exhibit displays a group of books by historian and travel writer, Jan Morris, while the other features photographs from photographer, Oliver Atkins. Both exhibitions run through December 2015. “Excerpts from a Life Well Traveled: The University Libraries’ Jan Morris Collection” George Mason University […]
SC&A has installed a new exhibit entitled “Exploring Suburbia: Housing and Transportation in George Mason University Libraries Special Collections & Archives”. Suburbs are residential or mixed-use areas, either existing as outlying parts of cities or urban areas or as separate residential communities within commuting distance of a city. The suburb first developed on a large […]
George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus turns fifty years old this Sunday. On September 14, 1964 George Mason College of the University of Virginia opened its doors to 356 freshman and sophomores. The faculty, which numbered fifteen, comprised seven full-time and eight part-time professors. The four original buildings were named North (now known as Finley), South (now known […]
