Research

John Cook, a research assistant professor at Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication, launches his “Cranky Uncle” game on Dec. 15 after spending over a decade studying different ways to counter misinformation.

Mason's Center for Humanities Research has named its first cohort of CHR Fellows, four faculty members and two graduate students whose projects center on the theme of Dissent.

Read about the results of the October 2020 Faculty Research and Scholarship Needs Survey. The survey was distributed to CHSS tenured, tenure-track, term, and administrative faculty with the purpose of determining which services and resources would be the most helpful as they pursue external funding for their research and scholarship.

Philosophy professor Andrew Peterson and incoming professor Wesley Buckwalter have published a survey of 1,800 US residents regarding public preferences for the distribution of scarce medical resources.

In accordance with George Mason University’s Winter Break schedule, the Office of Sponsored Programs will be closed December 21, 2020 and will re-open on January 04, 2021. Any proposals due during this period must be submitted to the sponsor prior to the Winter Break. For proposals due between December 21, 2020 through January 5, 2021, final documents must be received by OSP on December 14, 2020, in order to be submitted by December 18, 2020.

An academic website dedicated to measuring the impact of some of the world’s top academic influencers has named Distinguished Professor David Weisburd as the second-most influential criminologist of the last decade.

In Mason's Access to Excellence podcast, university professor Martin Sherwin discusses his new book, featuring new research about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

On November 9, 2020, NIH released a pair of funding opportunity announcements specifically for Early Sage Investigators (ESI), as defined in NOT-OD-17-101.

On October 23, the CHSS dean’s office held a virtual Research Coffee as “a place of solace and escape,” where faculty at varying stages of academic careers and experience could meet to discuss their research and scholarship: their own work as well as challenges in the current environment.

College faculty members Sabine Doebel, Department of Psychology, and Kelly Schrum, Higher Education Program and Department of History and Art History, are among nine Mason faculty who received collaborative research grants.