On May 10, more than 1,300 CHSS degrees were conferred at the Class of 2024 Spring Degree Celebration. Check out this video of highlights and view photos from the event.

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 spring 2024 undergraduate and graduate student honorees.

When criminology, law and society major Ari Williams came to Mason as a first-generation student and a member of the Honors College, she wanted to work in the federal government.

Thank you to the friends, donors, alumni, faculty, and staff who attended Food for Thought on May 2 in support of George Mason’s Center for Community Mental Health.

The CHSS Digest includes Shout-Outs to faculty and staff who have submitted their exciting news and accomplishments throughout the month. Have news to share? Send it our way so we can spread the word!

To help with the transition from MESA to M365, ITS will be offering virtual training sessions covering Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries.

Mason Recreation is offering a faculty and staff membership promotion from May 16 through August 15.

Mason’s Research Development Services is providing summer grant writing services including copy editing services for faculty wishing to receive input on the grammar, syntax, layout, and overall presentation of their grant applications. This work will be performed by graduate and advanced undergraduate students receiving technical editing training at Mason. Registration is required.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities by providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Program guidelines are anticipated to become available on June 18, 2024, with a submission deadline of September 18, 2024. NEH will be offering a webinar for administrators and prospective applicants on July 10, 2024, at 2 p.m. (Registration required).

Fall for the Book is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $20,000. This grant will support general operating costs for Fall for the Book’s year-round programming.

Chelsea Lebron, MFA in Fiction '24, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain, one of the most competitive Spanish-speaking ETA programs.

Rutledge M. Dennis, professor of sociology and anthropology, sits down with CHSS to discuss his academic journey and research.

This year, we had the pleasure of filming a series of faculty feature videos highlighting the research and academic journeys of some of our remarkable CHSS faculty. View the full playlist of the 2023-24 videos here. To share your story in an upcoming video, please contact the Marketing team at chssmc@gmu.edu.

With support from IARPA, a team of George Mason researchers is probing the psychology behind cyberattacks as part of a U.S. intelligence community program aimed at turning the tables on hackers.

Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) Umida Hashimova recently interviewed three immigrants from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. There are a little more than 100,000 immigrants from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the Unites States, comprising approximately 0.23% of the immigrant population.

Center for Community Mental Health director Robyn Mehlenbeck joins ABC 7's Good Morning Washington to discuss how the Center provides accessible and affordable mental health services to the NoVa community.

Meredith Lair, Department of History and Art History, is quoted in Diverse Education article about the similarities and differences between current student protests and the antiwar protests against the Vietnam War.

Alex Tabarrok, Department of Economics and Mercatus Center, is quoted in NBC news article about Food and Drug Administration sunscreen regulations.

In this Bloomberg Tax op-ed, Tyler Cowen, professor of economics and Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) faculty affiliate, highlights recent research by economists that "new low-skilled immigrants to the US are a net fiscal plus—each adding an estimated $750."