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Dr. Basnyat's work stands as a model of globally engaged scholarship that bridges theory and practice across cultural and geographic boundaries. 

A capacity audience of students, faculty, staff, and community members attended former U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith's talk “Democracy, Integrity, and the Rule of Law” on Tuesday, September 16 at the Harris Theatre. The annual Wilkins Lecture is cosponsored by the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program and the Schar School of Policy and Government.

The MLA will host a free webinar, “Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times,” on September 29 from 2 to 3 p.m. The webinar will feature a panel of experts that will answer questions about identifying external and internal funding sources, working with libraries, leveraging institutional support, and more.

The next installment of the Headlines webinar series is September 23 from 2 to 3 p.m. The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) team will provide updates on recent policy and funding developments impacting the social and behavioral science community, discuss Congress’ plans for averting a government shutdown, and analyze the latest actions taken by the Trump Administration.

When Liang Luo steps into a classroom—or works on a film, for that matter—she brings with her a rare blend of scholarship, creativity, and cultural sensitivity. This fall, Luo begins her role as chair of George Mason University’s Department of Modern and Classical Languages, a position that recognizes her academic leadership as well as her global perspective. 

Welcome to our monthly compilation of good news, gathered from CHSS faculty and staff!

The state-of-the-art building will house labs and initiatives to foster cross-discipline research, innovation programming, partnership, and community engagement for George Mason students, researchers, and commercial partners.  

Fanni Farago, a recipient of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Challenge Scholarship, examines how career services professionals can deliver and design strategies to bolster student workforce readiness.

The American Psychological Foundation has launched the Direct Action Crisis Funding program to provide up to five grants of up to $20,000 to early career psychological researchers who have lost federal funding. This new initiative aims to support researchers with immediate needs, such as completing data collection or preparing new grant proposals, after their grants were terminated by agencies such as the NSF or NIH.