Research

The MLA’s Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship in Language and Literature Programs seeks to help departments, institutions, and faculty members in languages and literatures value and assess public humanities work.

A Safeguarding Science toolkit has been created to help researchers defend research integrity and security of emerging technologies.

A revised Proposals & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (NSF 23-1) has been issued for proposals submitted or due on or after January 30, 2023.

An interdisciplinary group of faculty that includes Edward Maibach, director, Center for Climate Change Communication, and University Professor of Communication, has received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the Virginia Climate Center.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced changes to the names of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Division of Human Resource Development on October 25, 2022.

The National Humanities Center, of which CHSS is a member, has announced that 24 special episodes of their Virtual Book Talks are now available in podcast format.

Mason will be closed from November 23 through November 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Grant proposals that are due November 23-30 must be submitted to CHSS Pre-Award by November 14 to meet OSP's mandatory internal deadline. Applications due December 1-2 must be submitted to CHSS Pre-Award by November 27.

Sylvia Schreiner, assistant professor in the linguistics program, has received a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to support her work documenting and supporting the Yupik language on St. Lawrence Island.

VIVA Open Adopt Grants provide awards of $2,000 to individual instructors to support the time it takes to integrate existing open or no-cost materials into a syllabus, and to ensure that the results of those efforts are widely available to Virginia educators.

The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology.