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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Nena Rogers, MAIS ’19, with the 2025 Distinguished Staff Alumni Award. Rogers has dedicated nearly three decades to George Mason University Athletics. As deputy athletics director for student services and performance and the department’s senior woman administrator, she champions holistic student-athlete development.

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.

Interdisciplinary Studies alumni Mischa Geracoulis' first book Media Framing and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage: News Narratives about Artsakh and Gaza was published in April as a part of the Routledge Focus on Media and Humanitarian Action series. 

The David J. King Teaching Award is given annually to a faculty member who has made significant, long-term contributions to the overall educational excellence of the university. Higher Ed Professor Kelly Schrum has been named the 2025 David J. King Teaching Award Winner. 

SIS Associate Professor Chrystal A. George Mwangi's latest co-authored book Hidden in Blackness: Being Black and Being an Immigrant in U.S. Schools and Colleges, is set to publish February 2025 as a part of Columbia University's Teachers College Press - Multicultural Education Series.

On December 2nd, 2024, MAIS students, faculty, and staff met virtually to celebrate the research and scholarship of Interdisciplinary Studies students and presented two students the MAIS Celebration of Scholarship Award.

In this episode of Access to Excellence, associate professor of computational and data sciences Anamaria Berea discusses her research on Mars settlements and Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon as she and President Gregory Washington debate the age-old question: What are the chances of intelligent life beyond Earth?

A synopsis of Mischa Geracoulis' final project has been published in "International Journal of Human Rights Education, Vol. 8" Her project is titled "Making Curricular Space for Critical Media Literacy and Human Rights Education."