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The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program is a unique Fulbright Scholar Program initiative that is driven by U.S. institutions of higher education curriculum and teaching needs. Fulbright Scholar Program will host upcoming webinars in April and May to provide additional information about the program and competition. Deadline to apply to the Fulbright S-I-R Program is June 1, 2026.

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) is offering a virtual professional development course designed for higher education researchers who may have little or no experience with social science research methods. This course runs for four weeks starting on March 26, 2026.

George Mason is a member of the Folger Institute’s Consortium, so students and faculty have access to its wealth of scholarly resources. Samantha "Chevi" Chung is capitalizing on this collaboration and conducting research for her thesis, “Black Sheroic Couplets in Shakespeare, Black Female Actors Playing Eponymous Male Roles in Shakespeare's Plays from 1821 to 2025.”

Through a remarkable planned gift to George Mason University, Robert “Ken” Hedrick, Jr., BA History ’71, has created four endowed scholarships to benefit first-generation students.

Building on relationships through community-based service-learning, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages has built a partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools to bolster the growth of literacy in Spanish and Korean.

Department of History and Art History Associate Professor Gabrielle Tayac hopes the project coinciding with America's 250th anniversary will serve as a teaching opportunity for the wider public.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences would like to congratulate Tamara Harvey and Jacqueline M. Burek from the Department of English for being selected for the 2026 National Humanities Center four-week summer residency program this June at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Amanda Bryan is serving as the co-lead of the “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning" initiative, a cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional project aiming to promote ethical integration of AI into educational settings. 

Bram Weinstein, the radio voice of the Washington Commanders NFL football team, is teaching the spring semester sports media course, Sports Writing and Reporting, in the Department of Communication.

Michael J. A. Davis, BA Integrative Studies ’09, has partnered with George Mason to create a co-branded coffee: "Brave & Bold."