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Christian White, a communication major with a minor in information technology, who is a member of Mason’s Honors College, recently appeared in four episodes of “City on a Hill,” a Showtime crime drama set in Boston that stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.

CHSS is proud to announce that faculty members Christy Pichichero and Melissa Broeckelman-Post have been selected to receive 2021 Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards.

Doctoral candidate Paul Beatty's research uses electroencephalography to measure the brain's corrective tendencies following an error.

In a Bloomberg opinion piece picked up by the Virginian-Pilot, Tyler Cowen considers the "cultural vaccine landscape" of the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

The Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning has announced its 2021 Teaching Excellence Awards. Please celebrate with the college's awardees at a virtual ceremony on May 7, 12-1 pm.

Reuters has ranked Professor Edward Maibach, director of Mason's Center for Climate Change Communication, the most influential scientist working on climate change among America’s public universities, and 7th overall in the Reuters Hot List of the world’s top 1,000 climate scientists.

Jamie Clark, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, contributes to an Inside Higher Ed article about the questionable treatment of human remains of victims of a 1985 bombing in Philadelphia.

Melissa Broeckelman-Post, associate professor of communication, has been elected to serve as the chair of Mason's Faculty Senate, stepping into the position previously held by Shannon Davis, who begins a new post as associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at Mason’s Korea campus.

The featured topic for the May 12th CHSS Research virtual coffee will be the FRDA Seed Funding program. Faculty Research and Development Awards (FRDA), funded by CHSS, are short-term awards that are designed to help tenured and tenure-track faculty initiate new programs of research and scholarship or enhance existing ones.

Last fall Mason's Office of Sponsored Programs updated their deadline policy, and CHSS faculty have done a wonderful job answering the call!