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Virginia Business: Highlights the launch of Mason’s new College of Public Health. Mason president Gregory Washington and dean Melissa J. Perry are both quoted.

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Virginia Business: Highlights the launch of Mason’s new College of Public Health. Mason president Gregory Washington and dean Melissa J. Perry are both quoted. eander6 Thu, 11/03/2022 - 13:37

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Melissa J. Perry, Sc.D., MHS

Gregory Washington

Mason launches College of Public Health.

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CHHS in the Media

Virginia Business: Melissa Perry named CHHS dean

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Virginia Business: Melissa Perry named CHHS dean eander6 Thu, 05/26/2022 - 11:08

Mason appoints dean for College of Health and Human Services.

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CHHS in the Media

College of Health and Human Services

Kansas City Star: Dean Germaine Buck Louis comments about a study on a diabetes drug linked to birth defects

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Kansas City Star: Dean Germaine Buck Louis comments about a study on a diabetes drug linked to birth defects eander6 Fri, 04/08/2022 - 09:11

Common diabetes drug may raise birth defect risk if dad used it recently, study finds.

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Miami Herald: Dean Germaine Buck Louis comments about a study on a diabetes drug linked to birth defects

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Miami Herald: Dean Germaine Buck Louis comments about a study on a diabetes drug linked to birth defects eander6 Fri, 04/08/2022 - 09:09

Common diabetes drug may raise birth defect risk if dad used it recently, study finds.

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College of Health and Human Services

Zofia Burr

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Zofia Burr rstaffo2 Thu, 02/11/2021 - 13:56

Dean, Honors College

Contact Information

Email: mclarkp@gmu.edu

Phone: 703.993.1110

Mailstop: Honors College, MSN 1F4

Campus: Fairfax

Office: Buchanan Hall 205

Biography

Zofia Burr is the founding Dean of Mason's Honors College.

Dean Burr joined Mason as a member of the English department since 1992. She received her MFA and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her main areas of research are African American literature, and the reception of modern American poetry. She is the author of Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in the Poetry of Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou, and the editor of Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, Dialogues, by A. R. Ammons. Professor Burr is among the winners of ��AV's Teaching Excellence Award and the David J. King Teaching Excellence Award.

For the last decade, her professional energies have been devoted to the development of an Honors College that reflects Mason's inclusive learning community that welcomes the whole range of majors, backgrounds, and experiences found in our student population.

Education

1993 Ph.D in English at Cornell University
1990 MA in English at Cornell University
1987 MFA in Poetry at Cornell University
1982 BA cum laude in English at Sonoma State University

Publications

(2006) Essay for Exhibit Catalog: “Soft Touch / Wondering Eye.,” Soft Touch / Wondering Eye. New York: Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 10-14, 39-41

(2005) Encyclopedia Entry: “Audre Lorde,” Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. M. Keith Booker. ed. (Greenwood Press)

(2005) Essay: “The Missing Teacher: The Early Correspondence between Josephine Miles and A.R. Ammons,” in Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons, David Burak and Roger Gilbert, eds. (Norton) 343-355

(2004) Edited Correspondence: “Josephine Miles and A.R. Ammons: The Early Correspondence.” Epoch 52.3 (Spring 2004) 563-591

(2002) Book: Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou (U of Illinois Press, November)

(1997) Essay: “Emily Dickinson: The Making of a Poetic Touchstone,” Journal of the Poetry Society of America, 30-31

(1997) Essay: “In the Name of Audre Lorde: The Location of Poetry in the United States,” in Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies, Ann Cvetkovich and Douglas Kellner, eds. (Westview Press) 184-204

(1996) Edited book: Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews,and Dialogues, by A.R. Ammons (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P)

(1996) Interview: “Perversity, Propaganda, and Poetry: A Conversation with A.R. Ammons,” in Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues pp.73-84

Kenneth Ball

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Kenneth Ball admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:24

Dean, College of Engineering and Computing

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-1500
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Nguyen Engineering Building
Room 5100
Mail Stop: 4A3

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Biography

Kenneth S. Ball, PhD, PE is Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at ��AV in Fairfax, Virginia. Since arriving at Mason in 2012, Ball has led the college through extensive growth and rapid change increasing research awards and expenditures, expanding enrollment, and establishing several first-of-their-kind programs to attract future generations of engineering and computing professionals.

Under Ball’s leadership, the college’s ranking and reputation have improved. In the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings of our nation’s Best Graduate Schools, the college placed in the top 100 among public universities. Ball helped the college keep pace with its strong growth in student enrollment, advocating for more faculty and staff. He led a proactive response to the needs of our students, placing a high priority on ensuring the college has the faculty to maintain student-faculty ratios to allow vigorous levels of student-faculty interaction and mentoring, to limit the number of large-enrollment classes, and to be able to offer all of the courses that students need to graduate, including elective courses. These efforts keep diversity and inclusion at the forefront by expanding access and inclusion.

Ball’s service to engineering education led to him to chair ASEE’s Engineering Dean’s Council. He is recognized internationally for his research in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. He has chaired three international conferences, is a past associate technical editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and has served on several other engineering journal editorial boards. He is deeply involved in engineering program assessment and accreditation activities, both in the U.S. and internationally, particularly in the Middle East. He has obtained externally sponsored funding (excluding high-performance computing grants) more than $20M for projects and program development in mechanical engineering, including the thermal/fluid sciences and nuclear engineering.

Prior to coming to Mason Ball served as the L.S. Randolph Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech from 2004-12, Prior to his appointment at Virginia Tech, he served for 15 years on the mechanical engineering faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering.

Research

2008 - 2020 : GMUF Volgenau Fund. Funded by ��AV Foundation.

2012 - 2015 : GMUFVSE. Funded by George Mason Univ Foundation.

2012 - 2015 : GMUFVSE. Funded by GMU Foundation.

Research Interests

Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University