Craig Zaccaro, associate director of IT and application development for CHSS, was celebrated as Mason's Employee of the Month during a ceremony on Jan. 18. Please join us in congratulating Craig on this well-deserved honor!

CHSS has released a new video designed to raise brand awareness, showcase the value of a humanities and social sciences degree, and influence an increase in applications and enrollment for the College’s graduate programs. The video is now available on the CHSS website and YouTube channel, and is featured on Facebook and Instagram as part of a regional ad campaign. Check it out!

Join your colleagues for a coffee hour in the Horizon Hall 6th floor kitchen at 9 a.m. for refreshments and socializing to welcome in the spring semester.

At Mason's winter commencement ceremony on December 14, CHSS welcomed 39 new PhDs to its community of scholarship.

Each semester we honor graduating students nominated by their departments for their academic achievement and contributions to their respective fields. Please join us in celebrating the winter 2023 undergraduate and graduate student honorees.

Join us virtually on Wednesday, January 24 from 12-1 p.m. to learn about Marketing resources that may be helpful to you. Register now!

The Libraries will host hybrid town hall meetings open to all faculty to address strategic realignment of collection practices.

The Outstanding Achievement Awards honor Mason’s faculty and staff across 16 award categories and celebrate their hard work, dedication, and contributions to the university. We hope to see many CHSS awardees this year! Submit your nominations by February 19.

Co-hosted by the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA), Graduate Student Life, and the Graduate Division, the Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference highlights the research of Mason’s graduate students across disciplines. The deadline to submit proposals is February 11 at 11:55 p.m.

CHSS is collecting new and gently used children’s books and small toys for kids of all ages throughout the month of January. The collection will support Mason’s Contemporary Student Services (CSS) group by providing resources for students who serve as parents or guardians of small children.

In December, lifelong learners celebrated their love of learning at the CHSS Reflect and Connect event, where senior scholars learned about the variety of courses available for audit in the spring semester.

The beginning of the semester is a great time to make sure your bio pages and your websites are accurate and up to date. And it's easy! Don't know where to start? Check out this resource from the CHSSWeb team.

With the onset of a new semester and a new calendar year, it's a good opportunity to assess and update your department’s social media platforms. The CHSS marketing and communication team has prepared a handy Social Media Metrics 101 resource guide.

The Fall 2023 cohort of CHR Residential Fellows have spent the semester addressing various aspects of the annual theme Democracy, Disposability, and Repair.

CHSS faculty and staff can express their support for our college by opting for payroll deduction, an efficient means to make contributions to the program, scholarship, or initiative of their choice at Mason.

Congratulations to the CHSS faculty members who received 2023 ORIEI Seed Funding awards.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a reminder of eRA Commons ID Requirement for All Personnel on the R&R Senior/Key Person Profile Form beginning in January. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has posted recordings of the NSF Fall 2023 Virtual Conference from December. Access the NSF Resource Center to view relevant recordings for the most recent, as well as previous conferences.

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. The application deadline for the FRDA is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 2, 2024.

Mason’s Graduate Division and the Institute for a Sustainable Earth invite applications from outstanding Mason graduate students for the 2024 Sustainability Summer Fellowships for Graduate Research Partnerships program. This opportunity is designed to connect students with organizations making a positive impact on our world.

Nathaniel Greenberg, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, writes about the similarities to the previous election of Egyptian President Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi.

Mills Kelly, professor of history and a senior scholar at Mason's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and the Green tunnel podcast are featured in Garden and Gun.

Research by Desiree Desierto, Department of Economics, and Mark Koyama, Department of Economics, featured on NPR podcast Planet Money.

In Reader’s Digest, Todd Kashdan, Department of Psychology, is quoted in a story about how to "worry well," stating that sometimes it’s right to worry.

In the Los Angeles Times, Charles Gardner, Mercatus Center, and Emily Hamilton, Mercatus Center, write op-ed about the potential impact of the case of Californian George Sheetz.