November 20, 2024Deepthi Murali and Jason Heppler of George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have received a level two Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in support of their ongoing global textile history project titled Connecting Threads.
November 19, 2024The 2008 financial crisis cast a pall of pessimism over veteran CEOs that took three years to lift. David Koo, assistant professor of accounting, has found that memories of past recessions, triggered by recent ones, can weigh on chief executives’ decisions, literally for years.
November 13, 2024A team from Southern University at New Orleans came to Northern Virginia this past summer for a program that paired aspiring scientists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions with George Mason experts in Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA) Center.
November 13, 2024New research by Schar School professor Sita Slavov hopes to identify how widows can enhance their financial security when it comes to claiming Social Security benefits. See why this work is important to millions of women.
November 1, 2024With a new $3.69 million grant, the Research and Engagement for Action in Climate and Health (REACH) Center—which includes George Mason—is set to tackle the urgent intersection of climate change and public health in the nation’s capital.
October 31, 2024New research from Schar School Professor Qian Hu recommends government agencies change communication strategies during an emergency.
October 31, 2024Hundreds of students will help build a first-ever AI tool that tracks monetary penalties and gauges their impact on those who pay them. See what the three-day DataStorm is all about.
October 30, 2024For doctoral student Daniel T. Howlett, a high school project on the Salem Witch Trials has, in a way, never ended for him. It just grew in scope. He has visited more than 150 New England cemeteries for his dissertation research in on religion and disability in early America, and the Salem Witch Trials play a role.
October 30, 2024New study finds underrepresented students, particularly women of color, were less likely to receive mental health services during the pandemic. This study is the first to use a national dataset to examine changes in university students’ psychological well-being and their utilization of mental health services.-
October 28, 2024George Mason received a $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a postdoctoral fellowship program that will prepare recent PhD graduates to be leaders in quantum education and workforce development research. The program focuses on addressing challenges in quantum education, particularly in building an inclusive and equitable workforce.
October 21, 2024Over the past year, George Mason professor Moinul Hossain contributed to a research initiative aimed at ensuring the safety and integrity of 5G networks used by the United States military.
October 17, 2024Now in its third year, student voting research project aims to promote greater voter turnout among young people.
