Research

In collaboration with the university’s OSCAR Celebration of Scholarship, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences held its second virtual Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 5, 2021, featuring more than 70 video presentations.    

The featured topic for the May 12th CHSS Research virtual coffee will be the FRDA Seed Funding program. Faculty Research and Development Awards (FRDA), funded by CHSS, are short-term awards that are designed to help tenured and tenure-track faculty initiate new programs of research and scholarship or enhance existing ones.

Last fall Mason's Office of Sponsored Programs updated their deadline policy, and CHSS faculty have done a wonderful job answering the call!

Effective May 1, 2021, University Travel Advisory Committee (UTAC) approval will no longer be required for university domestic travel. Requests to travel domestically shall revert back to the pre-Covid process. Mason is maintaining its prohibition on all university international travel (with the exception of travel to South Korea) until further notice.

The CHSS Dean’s Office created some helpful documents to assist principal investigators and grant administrators with their reconciliation reviews and processes.

Qualtrics offers you the opportunity to register for one or multiple of their free live training webinars to help you become more proficient with Qualtrics.

Qualtrics is an cloud-based platform for creating and distributing web-based surveys, to which Mason has a university subscription. CHSS “Departmental Administrators” work with researchers to create logins, and follow departmental preferences on surveys, etc.

Join a live virtual workshop with National Endowment for the Humanities program staff to hear about NEH grant opportunities, deadlines, and application information.

On March 23 and 25, representatives from NEH, NEA, NIH, NSF, and LoC discussed fellowships and career development opportunities offered by their organizations as well as best practices for competing for these opportunities; CHSS faculty discussed their experiences competing for these types of awards.

Webex is being phased out and the service will no longer be available through a Mason license beginning on May 31. ITS has already begun closing accounts and will not be reactivating users.