The Social Science Research Council has announced the Just Tech fellowship, a remote, two-year, full-time research fellowship considering injustices emerging from new technologies and identifying solutions that advance social, political, and economic rights. Public information session December 9.

Mason's Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence will be expanded this spring, to include separate awards for faculty at different stages of their careers. Nominations are due by February 4.

Associate Professor Rashmi Sadana, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has published The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (University of California Press, 2021).

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Philosophy professor Lisa Eckenwiler has been invited to join the Hastings Center's community of Fellows. The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, is one of the leading and most prestigious bioethics centers in the world.  Eckenwiler's work focuses on global health inequities, refugees, migrants and other vulnerable populations, and humanitarian health ethics. 

The NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) held their Fall 2021 Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration on November 1-4, 2021. This event served to "help demystify the application and review process, clarify Federal regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special interest or concern."

The CHSS Research Virtual Coffee on the Narrative of Productive Failure, originally scheduled for December 8, 2021, has been RESCHEDULED for a 2022 date to be determined. More information will be provided when available.

On December 1, 2021, CHSS Research hosted Introduction to Mason's Research Institutes, an event that featured presentations from the executive directors of Mason's three research institutes: Institute for Digital Innovation (IDIA), Institute for Biohealth Innovation (IBI), and Institute for Sustainable Earth (ISE). The event was recorded.

Each edition of the CHSS Digest features upcoming funding opportunities. In this issue: Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects, National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), and National Science Foundation Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

In a New York Times audio production, economics professor Tyler Cowen argues against breaking up Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

An opinion piece in the Financial Post quotes a Marginal Revolution blog post where economics professor Alex Tabarrok comments on the American Medical Association’s recently-published language guide for advancing health equity, and the politicization of medicine.

In a Washington Post article on the 150-year rivalry between the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Daily Tribune, John Turner, chair and professor in the Department of Religious Studies, comments on the Tribune's hostility towards early Latter-day Saints leader Brigham Young.

On the PBS Newshour, Charles Chavis, interim director, African and African-American Studies program and assistant professor of conflict analysis and resolution, discusses Maryland's move to acknowledge its history of lynching and racial violence.

A shout-out to the college's staff members who are graduating next week!