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Why Iran’s Lego Clips Are Anything but ‘Stupid’ Marco Rubio should not dismiss this new and highly effective form of propaganda.

George Mason University administered the Faculty and Staff Experience Survey this spring, and survey feedback is already shaping both institution-wide priorities and local conversations within schools, colleges, and units, ensuring employees can see how their input informs decisions at multiple levels of the university.

Last year, Fall for the Book’s annual Writers in the School series reached nearly 1,200 K-12 students in the Fairfax County Public Schools. The program, organized by the George Mason University-based festival, is designed to introduce students to authors and encourage interest in reading and writing.

Show your Patriot pride every mile of the journey: New George Mason University license plates are now available through the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and every license plate purchase helps support student scholarships.

These stories showcase the many ways CHSS alumni are powering discovery, impact, leadership, and opportunity. Through their work, they embody the spirit of Mason Now: Power the Possible, demonstrating how a George Mason education prepares graduates not only to navigate the world as it is, but to help shape what comes next.

Renowned writers Celeste Ng and Stephen Graham Jones headline this year's Fall for the Book festival, which will be held October 6–10.

Jason Smith, Affiliate Research Faculty with the Center for Social Science Research and PhD alumni (2019), will be giving the Industry Keynote address at the 2026 Media Sociology Symposium. Dr. Smith's talk is entitled "Through the funnel: Connecting seemingly disparate fields in healthcare marketing."

Smith discusses Corozal Population History Project, a decade-long initiative that compares DNA samples from residents with archaeological and historical records connected to the Chactemal Maya community.