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College Convocation Speakers To Address Human Rights
Human rights has been an enduring and powerful presence in the news in recent months, despite the country's preoccupation with the presidential election. On Thursday May 15, 2008, the convocation address at the undergraduate ceremony for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences will bring the human rights discussion to the Patriot Center. Before over 2,000 graduating students and their families, Dr. Haleh Esfandiari and her husband, Dr. Shaul Bakhash will share their remarkable story of her 2007 detainment in Iran and his efforts to secure her release. Read More >>
History Day Regional Competition Explores Conflict and Compromise
On Saturday February 23, the Johnson Center and Innovation Hall on George Mason’s Fairfax Campus swarmed with sixth through twelfth grade students who were participating in the regional History Day competition that Mason hosted as part of the National History Day program. Read More >>
Realizing A Dream: Theresa Hsieh, BA, Sociology, ’08 Works with Refugee Children
For her profound community involvement, along with her outstanding academic performance in Sociology, senior Theresa Hsieh was awarded one of the first Dean’s Challenge Award Grants, a scholarship award of $2,000. Read More >>
Science and Society Minor has a Successful Start
The close of the fall semester marked the successful end of the inaugural course in the new minor, Science and Society. Fifteen students completed Introduction to Science and Society, one of two required courses for the interdisciplinary minor, which allows students to develop individualized concentrations in areas that focus on the intersection of science and society. Read More >>
The Technology Across the Curriculum Program Explores Blogging
Because of the increasingly important role that blogs are playing in so many aspects of our lives it is important that students develop an active deep and critical understanding of how to blog, how blogs function, and what their impact is likely to be. With these goals in mind, the Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) program convened a cohort of faulty who elected to redesign their courses to include the use of blogs as a central feature of the undergraduate course assignments. Read More >>
Black History Month Activities Culminate with W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
February marks the annual celebration of Black History Month. On Wednesday, February 20, the events will culminate with the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture by Dr. Tyrone Forman, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Read More >>
College is Home to Two Truman Scholarship Finalists
The finalists for the 2008 Harry S. Truman Scholarship – a prestigious, competitive program that provides $30,000 for graduate study – were recently named. The selection committee endorsed two Mason candidates with majors in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences who showed impressive academic achievements, leadership skills and community involvement. Read More >>
Text and Community to Encourage Discussion on Immigration
The Text and Community Program is an annual semester-long project co-sponsored by George Mason’s English Department and the Mason Project on Immigration. While English courses will examine The Devil’s Highway as an exemplary work of nonfiction, the book also offers a powerful examination of U.S. and Mexican border activities and immigration policies. Read More >>
New Alumni College to Offer Seminars by Iraq War Expert
As part of its new Alumni College, a program that offers continuing education seminars to Mason alumni and friends led by nationally recognized experts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) hosts its first Scholar in Residence, Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (Ret.) in February 2008. Read More >>
Forensics Hosts High Schools
The Mason forensics team reached out to the community to host the fourth annual invitational Patriot Games tournament for their high school counterparts. Competing teams hailed from 62 high schools representing 20 states across the country, from as far away as California, Iowa, and Florida. Read More >>
College Establishes Advisory Board
During the fall of 2007, Dean Jack Censer selected and convened an advisory board, whose first task is assisting the college by forging meaningful and mutually beneficial connections with the community. The advisory board members will offer guidance and support ... Read More >>
Rigorous Challenges Reap Dean's Scholarship Rewards for Students
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences announced the first of recipients of the Dean’s Challenge Award. The award criteria are simple. Students must be challenging themselves academically and taking true advantage of all the opportunities George Mason has to offer. Read More >>
Your Homework Tonight? YouTube
In today’s age where even presidential campaigns fall flat without a nifty video on YouTube, students taking Char Miller’s section of Government 490 have a leg up, gaining hands-on experience linking government studies with the mastery of new media. Read More >>
Center for History and New Media Receives $7M Award
Mason has been awarded a contract — valued at $7 million if fully funded over five years — by the U.S. Department of Education to create an online National History Education Clearinghouse. The online project, which will be housed in Mason's Center for History and New Media (CHNM), will focus on historical thinking and learning. It will also help K-12 history teachers become more effective educators and show their students why history is relevant to their daily lives. Read More >>
Freshman Attends World Economic Forum
In January, while most students were enjoying their break and preparing for the new semester, Whitney Burton was in Davos, Switzerland, speaking at the World Economic Forum. Read More >>