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In late July, the Center for Energy Science Policy hosted 10 officials from Pakistan in a meeting sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Their mission: To learn about U.S. renewable energy and climate policy, in the hopes of improving energy infrastructure in their home country.

Berea, an associate professor in the College of Science, is part of an independent study team looking at unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly known as UFOs.

The George Mason University, Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) invites applications for a one-year, renewable (up to three years) position as the Shrivastava Family Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Immigration Research. The successful candidate’s areas of specialization will include immigration, economic, social and political consequences of migration, quality of life, and the overall issues related to immigration policy. This position is critical to the success of the IIR and requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of the IIR.

Mason's Center for Humanities Research has announced that five faculty members have received Summer 2023 Research Grants to support ongoing projects related to the humanities.

The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss freedom of expression, the true purpose of education, and reading dangerously.

The Death by Numbers project at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) within George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) provides evidence of the quantitative mindset that developed in England at the turn of the 17th Century with the distribution of mortality statistics that were widely read by the people of London. The statistics were published by London city government officials on a weekly basis in broadsheets titled the Bills of Mortality which provided counts of death recorded by each parish in London along with the cause of death.

This Zoom workshop event features Professor Beth Jannery and Mason Alum/former Forensics team member, David Huff. The workshop contains three elements: tools, framework, and example of effective storytelling.

The Center for Humanities Research is now accepting applications for Summer 2023 faculty research grants. Grants of up to $3,000 are available to support humanities-related research. Applications due April 3.

Each semester we honor graduating students nominated by their departments for their academic achievement and contributions to their respective fields.