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Meet Andre Marshall, Mason’s vice president for research, innovation, and economic impact, at the Second Annual Research and Scholarship at Mason Orientation and Refresher, to be held virtually on January 19, 2022 from 9:00am – 2:00 pm.

The Social Science Research Council has announced the Just Tech Fellowship, a remote, two-year, full-time research fellowship considering injustices emerging from new technologies and identifying solutions that advance social, political, and economic rights. Public information session December 9.

The Center for Humanities Research has announced its 2022-23 theme, Connecting/Not Connecting: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy, and seeks applications for faculty and advanced doctoral students to join CHR as residential fellows.

The Office of Undergraduate Education, OSCAR, and the Office of Community Engagement and Civic Learning (CECiL) will fund multidisciplinary summer projects of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members.

Each edition of the CHSS Digest features upcoming funding opportunities. In this issue: National Endowment for the Humanities Public Humanities Projects and National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections; also see Digest article about FY 2022 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program

The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education has announced the opening of the competition for the FY 2022 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program. The GPA Program provides grants to institutions and private, nonprofit education entities that organize programs for K–12 teachers, college students, and faculty to engage in short-term or long-term overseas projects focused on training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies. The deadline to submit an application is Jan. 11, 2022.

On January 12-14, the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing Across the Curriculum, and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development are offering a writing retreat open to faculty and staff working on research and creative projects. Register by December 10 (Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash).

Don't miss the CHSS Community and Catalysts event on Thursday, November 18 at 7 p.m. Distinguished alumni, faculty, staff, and students will be recognized for their leadership, research, service, and contributions.

You are invited to join the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) Education and Health Research Hub for a panel discussion via Zoom (https://gmu.zoom.us/j/95441748844?pwd=cStUc1NFOFR2c1hpbG91OGtJaEp0Zz09) on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 2:00 pm.  Dr. Amy Best, Dr. Elizangela Storelli, Dr. Andrew Lee, Kellie Willkerson and Fanni Farago will outline the process and challenges of conducting research and work with community partners, present findings from the scoping review study, and discuss lessons learned regarding the features and practices of community partnering.

Sociology doctoral student LeNaya Crandall Hezel and writing and rhetoric doctoral student Lt. Col. Michelle Ruehl are part of the 2021 class of Tillman Scholars, named in honor of Pat Tillman, the former NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 while serving with the U.S. Army Rangers.