Mason's Russian and Eurasian Studies program is offering a free lecture series beginning September 12, featuring professional historians who bring historical context to the war in Ukraine (photo by Adam Śmigielski on Unsplash).

The Word Wall in Horizon Hall draws from a repository of several hundred quotes submitted by the Mason community. We would love for you to add your own favorites.

Jaime Lester, the college's associate dean of faculty affairs and strategic initiatives, joins a team from across the university to secure a grant supporting faculty and staff diversity (image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay).

CHSS alumni are amazing, and we have proof! Mason's Alumni Association has announced its 2022 awardees for the Celebration of Distinction and CHSS alumni have swept the field. Congratulations to all awardees! (Image by art_by_bigvee from Pixabay.)

Please join us in honoring our CHSS colleagues for their years of service to George Mason University. University Green and Gold Day events were held on November 8 and November 9, respectively.

The Center for Humanities Research welcomes faculty, staff, and graduate students to join its reading or writing groups, centered on a wide variety of topics and themes (photo by Laura Kapfer on Unsplash).

The CHSS marketing and communication team has created an online portal with everything you need for visual resources, Mason logos, media relations information, and more (photo by Thea on Unsplash).

On the first Tuesday of each month, the CHSS Digest will include Shout-Outs to faculty and staff. Have news to share? Send it our way so we can spread the word! (Photo by Santiago Lacara on Unsplash.)

Faculty participating in the First Year Five program will identify and participate in five hours of work during the academic year that is intended to improve the anti-racist, inclusion, and equity strategies they use to teach at Mason (image by John Schaidler on Unsplash).

Tauheeda Yasin, PhD Cultural Studies ’20, is launching a two-year appointment as the Community Engaged Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, as the recipient of a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship.

Tenured instructional faculty may apply for faculty study leaves for the 2023-2024 academic year. Applications are due Friday, October 14, 2022.

The Office of Sponsored Programs has announced that effective July 1, 2022, new proposals and new awards will no longer allocate 2% of indirects (F&A) to the Biocontainment Research Lab.

Research Development Services, in the Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Impact, have announced changes in procedures for limited proposal submissions effective September 1, 2022.

Mason's HR & Payroll Life/Work team has updated its guidance on flexible work agreements.

The college is seeking nominations for the newly formed CHSS Staff and Administrative Faculty Advisory Council. Staff and administrative faculty members, please read the draft council charter and consider nominating yourselves by COB September 23 (photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash).

Performance evaluations for the October 25, 2021 - October 24, 2022 performance cycle are due by October 24, 2022. Learn about new information resources from the HR & Payroll team.

Mason's HR & Payroll office's new, consolidated job description form replaces several forms and streamlines them into one document. It became effective September 1, 2022.

In an opinion article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, University Professor and Provost Emeritus Peter Stearns considers current challenges to student mental and emotional health, noting their historical underpinnings.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reviewing the propriety of allowing a financial exchange to offer the public a way to wager on which political party will control congress. Associate economics professor Robin Hanson notes the costliness of the inquiry.

Tyler Cowen, economics professor and faculty director for the Mercatus Center, comments on the uncertainty and risk underlying the administration's proposed tuition debt relief program.

In an opinion piece in the Financial Post, Vincent Geloso, assistant professor in the Department of Economics, discusses the cognitive and social outcomes that may result from greater parental choice and school autonomy.

Psychology professor Todd Kashdan contributes to a Washington Post article delineating the benefits of time spent on solo car trips, finding those excursions as an opportunity for reflection and self sufficiency.