Fond farewells and warm welcomes: Felicia Carr, our assistant dean for marketing and communication, retired on April 15, and Anthony DeMaio joined the college's finance team on April 10. (Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash.)

We are excited to tell you about CHSSWeb's first content block variant: accordions. This new feature allows you to turn any content block into an accessibility-compliant accordion item. This is a big addition and we hope to be adding other useful variants in the future.

If you create an event in CHSSWeb and assign it to a building on the Fairfax Campus, the Science and Technology Campus, or Mason Square (in Arlington), its show page will now include a link to the university's directions page. Also, we are in the process of adding Google maps for all of these buildings.

Aisha I. Yusuf, a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics, and Adebanke Loveth Adebayo, a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication, finished near the top of the 2022 3-Minute Thesis competition. (Image by Sonja Langford on Unsplash.)

A nudge that the CHSS MarComm team would love for you to send us your good news as well as your needs for social media support from the college's social media outlets. Help us share your content! (Photo by Oleg Laptev on Unsplash.)

In this virtual coffee, panelists gave examples of how their reactions have changed over time and how they have learned to turn something that feels like a failure into something positive and productive in their academic careers. (Photo by Ian Dooley on Unsplash.)

Mason's annual Spring into Well-Being celebration is going on this week with activities for students, faculty, and staff. Each day offers a theme to help us thrive together!

Reminder: Mason's Office of Human Resources and Payroll opened the Faculty and Staff Experience Survey on April 18. The survey takes 10 minutes to complete and will remain open for two weeks. (Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash.)

In an opinion co-authored by James Kinter, director of Mason's Center for Ocean-Land Atmospheric Studies, Edward Maibach, director of Mason's Center for Climate Change Communication, describes potential climate-related devastation throughout Virginia.

Associate psychology professor Justin Ramsdell is interviewed by Fox 5 Washington television news about a criminal investigation into biological material found in the home of a member of an anti-abortion group.

In a CNN feature on the dedication of the Enslaved People of George Mason Memorial, Wendi Manuel-Scott, professor of integrative studies and history, and George Oberle, assistant history professor and history librarian, describe the context that the memorial lends to the university's namesake.

In an opinion piece in Bloomberg and the Washington Post, economics professor Tyler Cowen considers three threats to our "civilizational heritage": war, pandemic disease, and environmental disaster.