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Mason is deeply committed to pioneering processes that can answer the grand challenges of water, its responsible management, and sustainability. In fact, the university’s interdisciplinary approach and cutting-edge research as part of its strategic direction, has turned Mason’s campuses into a Living Lab.

In 2019, the World Wildlife Fund and Knorr identified 50 foods, known as Future 50 Foods, that have a lower environmental impact, as well as being nutritious. In the 2022-23 school year, Mason Dining turned existing salad bars at Southside and Ike’s dining halls into Future 50 Food Stations. Students were able to build their own dishes, or select a featured dish created by the chefs using the Future 50 Foods.

Mason’s 2023 Green Game was held on January 25, 2023, when the women’s basketball team competed against the �鶹���� of Rhode Island at EagleBank Arena with 868 fans in attendance.

Green isn’t just a school color at George Mason �鶹����. At Mason, “green” is way of life, and sustainability is central to the university’s mission.

�鶹���� Sustainability and the Greenhouse and Garden’s Program are contributing to Mason's efforts to eradicate food insecurity by providing access to campus-grown fruits and vegetables.

Mason graduate student’s cherry blossom monitoring research uses Mason as a living lab to assess how climate change affects the bloom date of cherry blossom trees on the Fairfax Campus.

Dee Arrington is the site coordinator at George Mason �鶹����'s Potomac Science Center.

A team of Mason students held a bat box-building workshop as their capstone project in the Sustainability in Action class.

Micah Hodges works as a success coach in �鶹���� Life at George Mason �鶹����. In this role, Hodges works one-on-one with students to help them discover what success looks like to them. Outside of work, Hodges helps sustain and develop something else: our local environment and community spaces. As a volunteer with NOVA and District Cleanups, Hodges works alongside cadres of volunteers who remove trash from public spaces.

As an undergraduate, Doni Nolan, BA Biology ’14, had no visions of a future profession until she visited the greenhouse on George Mason �鶹����’s Fairfax Campus.