A selection of publications by CHSS faculty. Please let the communications team know if you have a book released - we would love to feature it!

ITS has prepared a helpful tip sheet for how to respond when someone is being disruptive during a Zoom session.

Two opportunities have been announced to understand the international impact of Covid-19 and climate change. Learn more about Palgrave MacMillan's event at this year's Being Human Festival, as well as Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.

Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Ginsberg has announced grading accommodations for the fall 2020 semester.

Michele Schwietz, associate dean for research, enjoys working with faculty and staff to promote and support their involvement in research and scholarship. She has an in-depth understanding of grant development and implementation, best practices in research administration, program development, research integrity, and graduate education.

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.

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.

Mason's Safe Return to Campus website includes information for researchers seeking to resume their research activities in university research facilities, for studies involving human research participants, and for researchers affected by travel restrictions. The CHSS research webpage links to Research Continuity instructions: https://chss.gmu.edu/research/covid-19

October 27-30, 2020, NIH held the 2020 NIH Virtual Seminar on Grants Administration and Program Funding that included presentations about working with the NIH grants process, programs, policies, and staff. Although the event is over, you can still view presentation recordings for 30 days following the conclusion of the virtual seminar on the seminar website. Beyond the 30 days, videos will be available on the NIH Grants YouTube Channel.

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.

Black Lives Matter, which has organized protests across the United States following the death of George Floyd in police custody, was of special importance to BTS fans, said Crystal Anderson, a faculty member at George Mason University and author of Soul in Seoul: African American Music and K-pop.

On the Bloomberg Green site, Ed Maibach, communication professor and director, Center for Climate Change Communication, discussed climate change as an important election issue.

In a time when families are being torn apart by politics, it would be easy to avoid discussing this contentious, anxiety-inducing election with children. Yet it is critical that you, as parents, are there to have this conversation.