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Join George Mason University President Gregory Washington as he invites experts, change-makers, innovators, and thought leaders to engage in meaningful conversations about the greatest challenges of our time.
Listen and learn from audacious people from George Mason and beyond who represent the diversity of insight, the agility of collaboration, and the tenacity required in the struggle for a better future that is at the essence of the Mason Nation.
President Gregory Washington hosts each episode of the Access to Excellence podcast, recorded on the campus of George Mason University.
On this episode of Access to Excellence, President Gregory Washington is joined by Marc Gopin, the James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in George Mason’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, to discuss the challenges of building peace and how to bridge the growing divides between groups.
Marc Gopin is the James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution and the Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
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June 3, 2020How does Monday and Friday as work-at-home days sound? Mason professors Matt Cronin and Kevin Rockmann talk with John Hollis about how the pandemic could change how we view the office.
June 3, 2020How does rhetoric play into debates about vaccination? Mason professor Heidi Lawrence tells John Hollis about her research into the role that professional communication from physicians, health officials, and researchers plays in shaping public debate and parental beliefs about vaccines.
April 21, 2020University Professor Thomas Lovejoy, known worldwide as the "godfather of biodiversity," tells John Hollis why the great rainforest is so imperiled, and how he fell in love with the region he has visited since 1965 and calls "a biologist
March 10, 2020Mason sport management professor Craig Esherick, a former head coach at Georgetown, tells John Hollis why the tournament might be the best it's ever been, has a new story about Mason's 2006 Final Four run, and discusses different paths t
March 2, 2020Host John Hollis speaks with Shobita Satyapal and Ryan Pfeifle about their discovery of three galaxies with black holes at their centers that, when they collide, could shake apart matter and light up gravitational wave detectors on earth.
February 7, 2020Host John Hollis speaks to Mason’s Wendi Manuel-Scott and George Oberlie about the lives and culture of the slaves at Gunston Hall, and the Enslaved People of George Mason memorial being constructed on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.