Sign up to record a brief video message of congratulations for our 2026 grads! Messages will be featured in the CHSS degree celebration's pre-ceremony slideshow. It's a fun and meaningful way for faculty, academic advisors, students, and alumni to cheer on our students and let them know how proud we are of all they've accomplished. Multilingual messages are welcome to showcase the many languages that make up our community.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences seeks applications for the Graduate Dean’s Challenge Scholarships for 2026. The recipients of this award receive a stipend, funded by generous donations from friends of the college, to help with their educational expenses.

The 16th annual College of Humanities and Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on the bottom floor of Horizon Hall on April 23.

Save the date for Mason AI Day on April 29 at 9 a.m. in Fuse at Mason Square. This all-day event will bring together researchers pursuing foundational questions in AI, faculty integrating these tools into teaching and scholarship, policymakers wrestling with governance, students navigating a shifting landscape, and practitioners deploying systems in the field.

The Open Enrollment Benefits Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 19 at the George Mason Health and Fitness Expo. Vendors include Anthem, Aetna, Delta Dental, Kaiser, Liberty Dental, Inspira, 529, Virginia Credit Union, VRS, Voya, Fidelity, and TIAA.

Designed and facilitated by the Office of Access, Compliance, and Community, ASPIRE is a series of workshops that help faculty and staff engage with one another as a community. The program focuses on communication, dialogue skills, and community-building practices to support student success, employee effectiveness, and institutional values.

Please let your students know that George Mason University Foundation scholarships are available and are open to all continuing undergraduates, admitted transfers, and graduate students.

OSP has recently made some updates to the internal requirements for research security, including Malign Foreign Talent Program certification for all federal research proposals and research security training in MasonLeaps.

CHSS recognizes the value of faculty participation at prestigious international conferences and has established a fund to help defray a portion of the travel costs for international overseas conference participation.

The American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Virginia Network will be holding its 2026 Annual Conference, “Navigating Rough Waters,” on June 5 at Fuse at Mason Square in Arlington. The ACE Virginia Network is seeking proposals for the 2026 Annual Conference that will engage women leaders in higher education and help build their networks in times of uncertainty, challenge, and change.

Building on relationships through community-based service-learning, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages has built a partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools to bolster the growth of literacy in Spanish and Korean.

Amanda Bryan is serving as the co-lead of the “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning" initiative, a cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional project aiming to promote ethical integration of AI into educational settings. 

Department of History and Art History Associate Professor Gabrielle Tayac hopes the project coinciding with America's 250th anniversary will serve as a teaching opportunity for the wider public.

George Mason's Center for Mason Legacies hosted its fourth Black Lives Next Door symposium on February 10 with the African and African American Studies Program as a celebration of Black History Month.

Bram Weinstein, the radio voice of the Washington Commanders NFL football team, is teaching the spring semester sports media course, Sports Writing and Reporting, in the Department of Communication.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences would like to congratulate Tamara Harvey and Jacqueline M. Burek from the Department of English for being selected for the 2026 National Humanities Center four-week summer residency program this June at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Hanson discusses restrictions on prediction markets.

Research from Dong, published in the peer-reviewed Security Journal, warns about how valid firearms detection algorithms are in the "real world."

Brackney, a distinguished visiting professor of practice, has been named the chief of police for the Jackson Police Department in Jackson, Mississippi.

Academic advisors unpack the realities of advising in the Keystone Concepts in Teaching podcast.

Upon the passing of Robert Duvall, Lukacs writes about his encounters with Duvall and his wife in The Plains.

Phillips headlines Rt. 123 Comedy at The Vault at Capital One Hall.

Kashdan writes about the ineffectiveness of school book bans.