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Graduates and their guests attending the degree celebrations will have the opportunity to hear from two distinguished speakers with extensive professional experience and deep ties to George Mason University.

The study will be a first-of-its-kind multi-method longitudinal study of a cohort of police officers.

Mason’s Forensics Team was recently awarded second place in the nation at the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST) with several students receiving individual honors. Mason’s Forensics Team has been the most successful team in the university’s history, continuously ranking in the national top 35 schools every year since 1975, the top five schools each year since 2007.

When answering a question about how to handle the pressure of solving societal issues that will not be resolved in an activist’s lifetime, Dr. Ntaiya answered with a quote that sums up her impact on the world, “I have started something that will not stop.”

The Death by Numbers project at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) within George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) provides evidence of the quantitative mindset that developed in England at the turn of the 17th Century with the distribution of mortality statistics that were widely read by the people of London. The statistics were published by London city government officials on a weekly basis in broadsheets titled the Bills of Mortality which provided counts of death recorded by each parish in London along with the cause of death.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) recently celebrated the remarkable achievements of 19 students at the Peter N. Stearns Provost Scholar Athlete Awards ceremony on February 21. These exceptional individuals were honored for their ability to balance their passion for sports with their academic pursuits while maintaining a GPA of at least 3.75.

Lauren Kuykendall’s, Department of Psychology, research on anti-vacation forces from a 2020 study is mentioned in a story about decreasing use of vacation days.

George Mason University will expand its research and real-world impact in Northern Virginia with the Saving Lives and Decreasing Health Disparities project that was made possible by the efforts of U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) that will play a critical role in addressing the mental health needs of young people in Northern Virginia.