Faculty News

Edgar Endress, an art professor at George Mason University, was recently featured in Incheon Now magazine. 

Mason’s Virginia Serious Game Institute (VSGI) will host an international symposium on DTx, digital therapeutics, sponsored by NCSoft, one of the biggest game companies in Korea with Mason Korea. The event will take place at Mason Square (formerly Arlington Campus) on November 9.

Four Mason Korea faculty members taught the inaugural semester of Mason Korea's Global Campus program for the Incheon Citizen Life College this spring and summer. To celebrate the end of the first semester of the program, students and faculty gathered for a Completion Ceremony at the start of August.

Mason Korea partnered with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at George Mason University to present “Live from Korea,” an international interactive summer course series, featuring Mason Korea faculty teaching for OLLI for the first time.

Several Mason Korea faculty members taught middle school and high school students in the Incheon area this spring and summer as part of educational programs to engage with local communities.

Professor Edgar Endress, a George Mason professor of art who teaches digital art courses at Mason Korea, received a grant from the US Mission in Tunisia’s Public Diplomacy Grant Program to support a social engagement project.

Dr. Gyu Tag Lee, who teaches cultural studies at Mason Korea, interviewed with the Korea JoongAng Daily to talk about the complex relationship between cultural sensitivity and K-pop.

Dr. Mark Ginsberg, Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University, recently interviewed with The Korea Economic Daily during his visit to Mason Korea for Mason's 50th.

With President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol set to take office on May 10, a K-pop expert and associate professor of cultural studies at George Mason University Korea, is calling on the new administration to build more small and mid-sized concert venues for various pop singers and create more platforms where they can meet the audience.