CHSS is pleased to announce the undergraduate student recipients of the 2024 Dean’s Challenge Awards. These awards recognize exceptional students not only in their superior academic achievement, but in their inspirational civic and community engagement. Read more about this year's winners.

Join your colleagues for the annual faculty and staff happy hour on October 2 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.! We will welcome our new colleagues and celebrate faculty promotions from academic year 2023-2024. If you plan to attend, submit your RSVP by September 25.

CHSS welcomes nominations for the 2024 Mary Roper Award. As the College’s most prestigious staff award, this recognition celebrates the exceptional contributions and achievements of a staff member who demonstrates unparalleled dedication, excellence, and impact in their role. Please submit nominations by October 11.

The Northern Virginia Writing Project’s Teacher Writing Institute is back! Designed to equip K-12 and post-secondary educators across all disciplines with skills and strategies to effectively teach writing, the Institute will be offered online this fall and spring. Register now!

Do you host a podcast? We'd love to know so we can share the information with our alumni network and showcase the great work happening within the CHSS community. If you have a podcast to share, please click through to let us know more about it.

The midcycle evaluation process launches October 1, 2024. CHSS A/P faculty, classified staff, and their supervisors are encouraged to attend one of the upcoming midcycle check-in process overview and Q&A sessions on September 24 and 27.

The nomination period for new members is open! Nominations are due October 25, 2024. The next CHSS Advisory Council town hall will be held on October 21 from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear an overview of the A/P Faculty and Classified Staff Faculty and Staff Experience survey results.

Do you want to elevate your leadership skills and connect with fellow supervisors at George Mason? Join Supervisor Boot Camp this fall! This five-session program is crafted to empower supervisors who oversee at least one employee with essential knowledge and skills. Register to reserve a spot.

In support of faculty seeking promotion and tenure, the Libraries are providing a new workshop about measuring and describing research impact. The workshop will be offered online on September 30 and October 1. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

Funded by a State Department Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship, Lisa Gilman, professor of folklore and English, spent the summer completing her research on art initiatives by refugees around the globe. Learn more about her work and the refugee artists.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be hosting an upcoming webinar, NIH Grants Policy Updates: FY 2025 Edition, on October 17, 2024, from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. This live, virtual event is an invaluable opportunity for grant administrators, research compliance offices, sponsored programs staff, institutional officials, principal investigators, financial administrators, and anyone involved with NIH-funded research or interested in NIH policy updates.  

A 30-minute Mason LEAPS online training module will help you know what to do when traveling internationally, collaborating with colleagues from other countries, handling international shipments, and interacting with nationals from sanctioned countries.

The Center for Humanities Research is here to help find and secure funding for humanities-related studies and research. Check out these helpful tips, resources, and words of wisdom.

Amanda Madden, assistant professor of history and affiliate faculty with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), has been awarded a second major grant as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Scholarly Editions and Translations program.

Connecting Threads is a collaborative digital history project dedicated to amplifying the contributions of Indian weavers and Afro-Caribbean consumers to global histories of dress.

Welcome to our monthly compilation of good news, gathered from CHSS faculty and staff!

Thalia Goldstein, Department of Psychology, speaks about her research on the effects of theater education and how it can enhance emotional and social development.

Andres Rosero, a PhD candidate in psychology, discusses that the concern of technology being able to withhold its true capabilities is real.

Roger Lancaster's latest book The Struggle to be Gay—In Mexico, For Example reflects the struggles of poverty and prejudice that exists with being queer in Mexico. Lancaster directed the Cultural Studies PhD program from 1999-2014 and again recently as interim director.

Amy Best, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, shares that she is not surprised by the upheld tradition and that it is tough to escape the gravitational pull of certain matrimonial traditions.

In BBC, research by Martin Wiener, Department of Psychology, Alex Ma, a psychology PhD candidate, and Ayana Cameron, a psychology graduate student, is cited in an article how children's perception of time is affected by factors such as visual information, emotional state, and memory.