CHSS is proud to announce that faculty members Christy Pichichero and Melissa Broeckelman-Post have been selected to receive 2021 Presidential Faculty Excellence Awards.

Melissa Broeckelman-Post, associate professor of communication, has been elected to serve as the chair of Mason's Faculty Senate, stepping into the position previously held by Shannon Davis, who begins a new post as associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at Mason’s Korea campus.

The Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning has announced its 2021 Teaching Excellence Awards. Please celebrate with the college's awardees at a virtual ceremony on May 7, 12-1 pm.

Faculty members are needed to read graduates' names as they cross the stage during Mason's Patriot Processions the week of May 10-14. Learn more about how you can help celebrate our graduates.

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

The Office of the Provost invites full-time tenured faculty members to apply to serve as a Faculty Fellow for Faculty Affairs and Development (pending funding). Learn more, and apply by May 6.

We are working with the university to learn about faculty's teaching experiences in Horizon Hall's classrooms. Will you share your experiences with us?

The featured topic for the May 12th CHSS Research virtual coffee will be the FRDA Seed Funding program. Faculty Research and Development Awards (FRDA), funded by CHSS, are short-term awards that are designed to help tenured and tenure-track faculty initiate new programs of research and scholarship or enhance existing ones.

Last fall Mason's Office of Sponsored Programs updated their deadline policy, and CHSS faculty have done a wonderful job answering the call!

Effective May 1, 2021, University Travel Advisory Committee (UTAC) approval will no longer be required for university domestic travel. Requests to travel domestically shall revert back to the pre-Covid process. Mason is maintaining its prohibition on all university international travel (with the exception of travel to South Korea) until further notice.

The CHSS Dean’s Office created some helpful documents to assist principal investigators and grant administrators with their reconciliation reviews and processes.

Doctoral candidate Paul Beatty's research uses electroencephalography to measure the brain's corrective tendencies following an error.

In a Bloomberg opinion piece picked up by the Virginian-Pilot, Tyler Cowen considers the "cultural vaccine landscape" of the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

Robyn Mehlenbeck, director of Mason's Center for Psychological Services, shares information on helping children process the anxiety and anger they may feel during the months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Big Think describes an article co-authored by associate professor James Thompson, Department of Psychology, that describes genetic drivers of facial structure and brain development.

Jamie Clark, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, contributes to an Inside Higher Ed article about the questionable treatment of human remains of victims of a 1985 bombing in Philadelphia.