An article in the Fairfax County Times explains the Honey Bee Initiative’s Hive Alive project. By using virtual reality, the Honey Bee Initiative is able to reach even more (Read More…)
Written by Greg Johnson on August 12th, 2021. There is so much more to honey bees than producing honey, and at George Mason University, nobody knows (Read More…)
Telemundo Washington D.C. Reporter Joseph Martinez visits the Fairfax Campus apiary to learn more about the educational and economic purpose of B4BW‘s Honey Bee Initiative, (Read More…)
The Honey Bee Initiative has partnered with MVLE to make candles from beeswax collected through HBI hives. Operating since 1971, Virginia-based MVLE, Inc. provides employment (Read More…)
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) selected George Mason University School of Business’ Business Business for a Better World and its Honey (Read More…)
Lisa Gring-Pemble, associate professor of business foundations, is the 2019 recipient of the George Mason University Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award. Each year, (Read More…)
Twenty-one George Mason University students traveled over spring break to learn how Mason’s Honey Bee Initiative empowers communities through sustainable beekeeping and to investigate (Read More…)
15 students in Professor Lisa Gring-Pemble’s Social Impact and Entrepreneurship class traveled to Colombia for 10 days during spring break to get a granular look (Read More…)(Read More…)
On April 22, Earth Day, George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera, School of Business Dean Maury Peiperl, and College of Science Dean Peggy Agouris cut (Read More…)(Read More…)
Volunteer members of the Patriot Pollinator Coalition box up packages of K-Cups of tea infused with honey from Mason’s Honey Bee Initiative. Proceeds of sales (Read More…)(Read More…)
Germán Perilla’s colleagues refer to him simply as “The Bee Whisperer.” Perilla is the Founder and Director of George Mason University’s Honey Bee Initiative. He explained (Read More…)(Read More…)
Established in 2012, George Mason’s Honey Bee Initiative (HBI) has now expanded to Mason’s Science and Technology Campus. Six new bee hives (complete with honey bees) were (Read More…)(Read More…)
When you think of trash, bees probably don’t come to mind—unless you’re at a Lorton landfill. George Mason University’s Honey Bee Initiative is partnering with Fairfax County (Read More…)(Read More…)
Germán Perilla, director of George Mason University’s Honey Bee Initiative, reaches his bare hand into a hive and pulls out a rack of honeycombs swarming (Read More…)(Read More…)
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia recently presented a grant of $25,000 to the George Mason University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Honey (Read More…)(Read More…)