In The Media

Gary L. Kreps, PhD, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication discusses Coronavirus messaging in WebMd

Laurie Robinson, the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at Mason, cowrote a opinion piece with former Washington, D.C., police chief Charles Ramsay about training police on use of force.

“The general idea is that people take certain events during the week that are cyclical, and they anchor themselves to it, and the farther you get out from that anchor, the harder it is to tell when it is,” says Martin Wiener, PhD, an assistant professor of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

Robin Hanson, Department of Economics faculty member, predicts in Gizmodo that media coverage of artificial intelligence will wane in coming years, reflecting a cycle of interest.

Dr. Daniel Gartenberg, HFAC alum is working on tech that stimulates deep sleep, the most regenerative stage which (among other wonderful things) might help us consolidate our memories and form our personalities. Find out more about how playing sounds that mirror brain waves during this stage might lead to deeper sleep -- and its potential benefits on our health, memory and ability to learn.

In an article discussing the rate of gun crimes involving high-capacity magazines, the Washington Post cites research by Criminology, Law and Society professor Christopher Koper.

Scientific American cites a recent survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Mason's Center for Climate Change Communication to highlight Americans' growing concern about global warming.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media in CHSS receives two NEH grants.

The European philosophers of the Enlightenment argued that Europeans were civilized, but Africans were barbarians. In this interview, Dr. Wheelock describes how radical African American writers used those same philosophical principles to unmask the barbarism of slavery.