For senior Hyowon Kim, the fall semester has been full of new experiences. Kim is one of 84 students from the George Mason University Korea Campus studying in the United States.
Since arriving on the Fairfax Campus in August, Kim and other Mason Korea students have been gaining a lot of new experiences—everything from learning how to take an Uber and use public transportation to experiencing new types of classroom environments and neighboring cities.
On average, pre-pandemic, around 45 Mason Ko...

The DC Metro system has provided rapid and reliable transit service to the D.C. Metropolitan area, its residents, and its visitors since 1969. The WMATA website reports that it serves approximately more than 600,000 customers a day throughout the Washington, DC area.


While the metro system contains many benefits, it also has drawbacks, such as a fight against fare evasion.


WHAT IS FARE EVASION? HOW DOES IT HAPPEN?


Daily, people avoid fares by jumping the gates, forcefully opening the ga...

Is Ms. Sarah coming in today?—- a question students repeated whenever Sarah Brown was not instructing at the D.C. Scores program. Every week, students in the third to fifth grades looked forward to their nature walk with Urban ForestKids. Astonishment and eagerness fall on the children’s faces when they see Brown walking in carrying her baskets filled with everything that nature has to offer. They observed animal skulls, seashells, and bird feathers with their mini magnifying glasses and wrote t...