Clinical Psychology Professor Christy Esposito-Smythers is serving as the principal investigator of George Mason’s Interprofessional Behavioral Health Training Program for Youth Serving Professionals. The program, funded through a four-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, prepares graduate students to work in communities where mental health services are often hardest to access.

Elizabeth Freeman, executive director of Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation and an associate professor in George Mason's School of Integrative Studies, helped lead a cohort of 10 undergraduate students from around the country at the Research Experiences for Undergraduates this past summer in Front Royal.

George Mason’s undergraduate economics and psychology programs earned top-four rankings in Virginia in the recent U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges rankings.