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Data mining website ScholarGPS ranked David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Executive Director of Mason's Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, seventh overall in lifetime research achievement in the areas of criminology and criminal justice. He is credited with 343 publications and 18,021 predicted citations. Rankings are based on several factors, including scholar productivity (number of publications), impact (citations), and quality (h-index). Congratulations, David!
A shout out to Steven Zhou, a Psychology doctoral candidate in the industrial-organizational psychology program, who was awarded $5,000 in the 2023 Dissertation Research Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). Steven's award-winning dissertation focused on "The Negative Effects of Shared Leadership: Understanding Why and When Shared Leadership Does Not Work Through an Experiment and Agent-Based Modeling." Learn more about Steven's research.
English Professor Scott Berg's latest book The Burning of the World landed a review in the New Yorker and has been longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Berg's book was one of 24 nonfiction longlist finalists, with the winners in fiction and nonfiction to be announced in summer 2024. Read more about Professor Berg's book and nomination.
Anne Dobberteen, doctoral candidate in History, has secured a year-long fellowship as the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Predoctoral Fellow for the year ending in late August 2024 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Anne has also recently presented at George Washington University's "DC Mondays" lecture series on civilian women "plane plotters" during World War II in Washington, DC. Congratulations, Anne!
October 17, 2023