CHSS is pleased to announce that we are hosting two workshops with MacArthur Fellow and award-winning educator, author, scholar, and mentor Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman: "Recruiting and Retaining Scholars from Underrepresented Groups" and "Getting to Your Goals: Much More than Mentorship." Click through to express your interest by February 5.

The assistant professor of Criminology, Law and Society will be honored at a March 7 event in Richmond, with 11 other state educators recognized as outstanding faculty by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Rashmi Sadana, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, sits down with CHSS to discuss her academic journey and research.

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

The Stearns Center Digital Learning invites faculty to attend a demonstration of Perusall, a social learning platform designed to promote online student engagement. This is the first of four online tool demonstrations this semester to show faculty tools that can enhance their online course experience.

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.

The Office of Research Innovation and Economic Impact (ORIEI) is launching the 2024 Mason ORIEI NSF CAREER Cohort Support Program. The new program is intended to support early career faculty applying for 2024 NSF CAREER Awards through workshops, mentorships, and a structured grant writing process.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures (PAPPG) that will be effective for proposals submitted or due on or after May 20, 2024.

Calls for proposals are open for Mason full-time instructional and administrative faculty interested in launching pilot research and course redesign projects with colleagues at universities within the 4-VA collaborative in Virginia. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through February 15, 2024, but proposals must be submitted for Dean's signature no later than February 7.

Lisa Gilman, professor of folklore and English and IIR faculty affiliate, has released the Dzaleka Art Project website. The art project is a community-based collaborative project by and about the arts and artists living as refugees in the Dzaleka camp in Malawi.

CHR Summer Research Fellow talks about her path to Mason, the CHR, and the broader impact of her project "Making Birth Stories Matter(s): An Examination of Health, Communication, Culture and Identity through Critical Autoethnography and Narratives of Women Birthing with Doulas."

This year's IIR Nobel Laureate Report focuses on Nobel Laureates in Economics. Dr. Sandip K. Sureka and Kellie S. Wilkerson write about the crucial role of immigrant economists in the discipline.

Dr. Justin P. Lowry is Associate Professor of Archaeology at SUNY Plattsburgh. After completing his PhD in Anthropology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany in 2013 and before starting a tenure-track position at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2017, Dr. Lowry spent time at George Mason University teaching in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and working as a Research Fellow and later as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR).

CHR's leadership duo—director Alison Landsberg and associate director Catherine Olien—were delighted to be featured on the first two episodes of Mason Libraries' new "Research Remix" podcast.

Jesse Kirkpatrick, Department of Philosophy and Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, notes that there is a lack of protections like this at the national level. The proposed new bill would protect Americans’ voice and likeness against artificial intelligence-generated fakes.

Patrick Horan, Mercatus Center, is quoted on MarketPlace story comparing different ways to measure inflation.

Susan Howard, School of Integrative Studies, and her award-winning game Go Nisha Go featured in NewsVoir article.

In Bloomberg, Tyler Cowen, Department of Economics and Mercatus Center, writes that the most popular and effective use of AI in education may be programs that follow the “friendship first” model.