College of Humanities and Social Sciences

About 100 students attended the Fall 2021 Communication Career Forum hosted by Mason’s Department of Communication and its external advisory board, the Insight Committee. There they had the opportunity to interact in person with public affairs specialists, media producers, journalists, health communicators and marketers.

The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PFP), created by CHSS Dean Ann L. Ardis, allows participants to continue their research and teach two classes per semester on a 12-month contract.

University Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin Sherwin, 84, died Wednesday, October 6, 2021, at home in Washington, D.C. His family said that the cause of death was lung cancer.

As a 2021 WW Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow, Mason alum Alexander Kruszewski will teach for three years in high-need Pennsylvania public schools.

The spike in Coronavirus cases could force hospitals into tough choices because of limited resources.

Patricia Engel’s novel “Infinite Country” is the winner of the 2021 Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award.

Mason scientists Tom Lovejoy and Ed Maibach discuss global climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

The September 11 Digital Archive was one of the first digital archives of its kind, and it went on to become the Library of Congress's first digital acquisition in 2003. Launched in January 2002, the digital archive gave people a collective way to upload their stories online.

George Mason University alumna Shelley A. Marshall was in her office at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. A budget analyst in the comptroller's office of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she was scheduled to move to a new office on the other side of the building later that week.

As a graduate student with intersectional racial and ethnic identities, George Mason University doctoral student Austin A. Deray said he believes it is his responsibility to champion the voices of his communities.