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Sumeya Gibril, BIS '23, a graduating master’s student in the Schar School of Policy and Government, created a nonprofit last May called the Rise Above & Be Relentless Foundation, a 501c (3) organization that assists women navigating sexual assault and domestic abuse.

The undergraduate anthropology program and English associate professor Courtney Adams Wooten were honored with Excellence in Assessment Awards from the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning.

Ashley Fortner, BS Integrative Studies ’17, has been an Elephant Trails keeper with the Smithsonian's National Zoo since 2019 and is currently helping with newborn Linh Mai.

CHSS Dean Ann Ardis shares why education in the social sciences and the humanities matters more than ever in this age of increasingly smart machines.

For our final Major Matters episode of the season, Emma and Cadie are joined by Tereana Battle to discuss the Global Affairs program!

George Mason faculty and staff age 62 or older, with at least five years of service, automatically have a lifetime life‑insurance policy as part of their George Mason benefits.

Lisa Gilman in the Department of English and Jennifer Ashley from the Global Affairs Program have received U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2026-27 academic year.

George Mason's Creative Writing Program associate professor Vivek Naranayan and alumna Jessica Anthony, MFA ’04, have been named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows.

CHSS is excited to announce that Brian van de Graaff, BA Speech Communication ’97 and CHSS Distinguished Alum '24, will address graduates and their guests as the alumni speaker of the upcoming degree celebration on May 16.  

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has been working on a first-of-its-kind initiative with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and a number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country to archive collections of century-old letters, photographs, and other artifacts that document the Black experience.