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post-disaster assessment,” he says. He is gratified that his drone has attracted significant interest from local communi- ties and private businesses. Getting it “into the hands of practitioners,” is his ultimate goal, he says.


Information, communication and entertainment Mason’s third research priority


will be information, communication and entertainment. Because so much of the work underway at the school is interdisciplinary, many projects could fit into more than one of Crawford’s categories. This third area is broad enough to encompass studies as diverse as the effects of digital media on African- American families to the reaction of a population to a nuclear attack. Mason’s Center for Geospatial


Intelligence deals with information and communication. Its analysts examine how data is amassed and disseminated about everything from physical features and man-made structures to people and events. Information used to flow from


the top down, says Director Anthony Stefanidis, but no more. Technology has forever changed that age-old paradigm. Information today is, instead, generated and gathered through multiple outlets, including crowdsourcing, social media,


digital images and sensor networks. One of the center’s recent projects looked at how activity on Twitter provided information about an earthquake. In that study of the 2011 earthquake on the East Coast, tweets, the study found, functioned as a human sensor network. Because the National Geospatial-


Intelligence Agency is in Springfield, “NoVa is the epicenter of geospatial intelligence,” Stefanidis says, and his center has positioned itself to be a crucial


David Lattanzi is developing a drone to safely and inexpensively inspect civil infrastructure, especially bridges.


part of that. At the university’s Institute for


Immigration Research, the goal is to provide accurate data about immigrants, despite a highly politicized environment. Executive Director Monica Gomez


Isaac says her institute is creating a data base using statistics from the American Community Survey, which is conducted annually. Through the survey, the insti- tute is able to create maps of immigrant populations in specific communities. If, say, a Fairfax official wants to know the median income of immigrants in the county or the level of their educational attainment, that information can be found on the center’s Data on Demand. In June, the institute co-authored


a report that showed the prominent role that immigrants play in health care. Although immigrants make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, the insti- tute found that they represent 40 percent of all medical scientists and 28 percent of physicians and surgeons. Gomez’s organization, like so many


others at Mason, sees itself playing a dual role. Its work not only is aimed at bolstering the NoVa economy, but, is as appropriate for a nonprofit institution, at advancing the public good. “We are pushing to translate our


research outcomes, not necessarily com- mercialize them,” Crawford says. “At Mason, we want to be globally renowned and regionally relevant.”


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Abul Hussam’s innovative water fi lter, which removes arsenic from ground


water, won a $1 million prize from the National Academy of Engineering.


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