Marguerite Rippy, the college's associate dean for graduate academic affairs, joins Mason from Marymount University, where she had served as the literature and languages department chair before leading Marymount’s reaccreditation process with the SACSCOC.

University Policy 1415 requires appropriate face coverings for all faculty, staff, students, visitors, and vendors on campus. Learn more about this important element of the Safe Return to Campus plan.

The Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, the signature annual event for the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, offers over 60 live/synchronous and on-demand sessions where Mason instructors share their best teaching strategies. Join in September 21-25.

Support your students' career readiness by becoming a part of Mason's Career Influencers Network. Training sessions for faculty and staff in September and November will prepare you to advise your students in career development as you help them pursue their goals.

The George Mason University (Mason) proposal submission policy requires that all proposals must be received by the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) by 5 p.m. (4) four full business days, excluding the day of submission, in advance of the sponsor’s deadline.

Emily Smedley devoted the summer to organizing her dissertation research methodology on the relationship between linguistics and school shootings.

The Jewish Standard has published an in-depth article about the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media's American Jewish Life project that documents Jewish life during COVID-19.

In a Washington Post article on a proposal to name deadly heat waves in the same manner as tropical storms, Edward Maibach, University Professor of Communication and director of Mason's Center for Climate Change Communication, notes that naming them helps the public understand their danger.

In a Washington Post article on the varied reactions to social media tales of travel during the pandemic, University Professor of Psychology June Tangney, suggested that travel shaming is not productive.