MARS

MARS is a repository service of Mason Publishing and the Digital Scholarship Center at the George Mason University Libraries. Home of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations, as well as faculty research publications and data files, MARS provides access to the intellectual work of the Mason community.

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  • Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason University Plaster Cast Collection 
    Gregg, Christopher A. (Mason Publishing, 2021)
  • Writing to Grow: Creative Nonfiction, The Story of You 
    Weinstein, Aimee (Mason Publishing, 2021)
  • It Takes a Team! 
    Henson, Jo Ann J.; King, Karen Marsh; Bennett, Kelly (Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review, 2021)
    In spring 2020, the pandemic caused many universities to move abruptly to online instruction mid-semester. This article is about the partnership of a core team of two librarians and a business professor and their efforts ...
  • Digital Initiatives at the Center for Mason Legacies 
    Dobberteen, Anne; Fahringer, Alyssa Toby; Guidone, Anthony; Oberle, George D. (Conference on Community Writing, 2021)
    Who writes history? Who is history written for? How is it accessed, and how can it become more accessible to local communities? This panel will discuss how digital initiatives at George Mason University’s Center for Mason ...
  • Creating an In Vitro Model for Acute Inflammation Using Tissue-Engineered Blood Clots 
    Leonard, Julia
    This work served to determine whether inflammatory responses induced in a disease state, such as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), can be modeled in vitro by tissue engineered whole blood clots. ARDS is characterized ...
  • Isolation to Solitude 
    Wilson, Sarah
    This thesis is a collection of personal essays that explores the relationship between isolation and solitude and the connections we made in the in between. It chronicles the narrator’s struggles with addiction, her journey ...
  • Darkness in Sea and Sky 
    Barnes, Zachary
    In Sjomere, the last crumbling city of a far-future earth, the seer Aoife dreams of escaping her life as a slave. As the foretold day approaches, Aoife and her five-year-old son, Mika, a child born of rape, along with ...
  • Logging Off: Tales from the Post Internet Era 
    Hock, Michael B
    No one really knows why the Internet stopped being popular, only that one day, it simply wasn’t. The final known social media post was from hipster who posted that he was no longer going to be posting to a certain social ...

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