IIR Celebration of Immigrant Artists as Entrepreneurs
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Students and faculty in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences engage in research, analysis and creative work that address essential questions about our lives and our world. The college's range is wide, from traditional humanities such as English and philosophy to interdisciplinary social sciences such as bio-archaeology and neuroscience. Particularly strong in interdisciplinary scholarship, the college addresses fundamental questions about human life and value in order to provide cutting-edge solutions to pressing social problems.
George Mason University is training 100 research administrators this year in a new program designed to help them support faculty and navigate the complex rules and regulations of research grants and contracts.
Charlotte Gill, faculty member, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, and deputy director, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, has been named a 2017 Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her work in police-community partnerships in crime prevention in Appalachian Kentucky.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to announce that two of its faculty members' projects have received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Proactive Policing Lab, part of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason, opened in January and is led by criminology professors Christopher Koper and Cynthia Lum, a former Baltimore City police officer.
The acquisition of a high performance 3 Tesla or functional, whole body, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner means a lot for the next generation of Mason research.
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association and Mason’s Center for Social Science Research are in their second year of a project to assess the patterns of who actually gets published in a premier academic journal, the American Sociological Review, and what the enigmatic process really looks like from start to finish.
This year has seen Mason triumph in the world of research. It was named as an R-1 Doctoral University (Highest Research Activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions in Higher Education. This is the highest research status available.
The provost’s multidisciplinary research initiative, now in its second year, gives interdisciplinary teams from Mason faculty, staff, students, and/or community partners an opportunity to showcase their creativity as they respond to important challenges facing the region, nation, or world.
