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Retro Mason: Vernon Smith wins Nobel Prize 2002

Colleen Rich — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:52:30 +0000

Retro Mason: Vernon Smith wins Nobel Prize 2002 Colleen Rich Thu, 12/01/2022 - 07:52

Twenty years ago, in December 10, 2002, Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, recognizing his pioneering work in the field of experimental economics. Currently professor emeritus of economics and law, Smith returned to campus in November 2016, just shy of his 90th birthday, for a ceremony renaming the Metropolitan Building at Mason Square (formerly the Arlington Campus) Vernon Smith Hall. Smith was the second Mason economist to win the Nobel for his work. The first was James M. Buchanan in 1987.

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Mason Department of Statistics welcomes new faculty

Rena Malai — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:32:42 +0000

Mason Department of Statistics welcomes new faculty Rena Malai Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:32

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The ��AV Department of Statistics welcomed eight new faculty members in 2020 – 2021.

“The research portfolios of these new faculty members are excellent, representing wide-ranging important fields in modern statistics and data science,” says Jiayang Sun, department chair.

The new faculty members, listed alphabetically, are as follows: Jonathan Auerbach, Isuru Dassanayake, Inchi Hu, David Kepplinger, Ben Seiyon Lee, Mary Meyer, Kenneth Pasiah, and Lily Wang.

According to Kepplinger, the Department of Statistics, which is a part of the School of Computing within Mason’s College of Engineering and Computing, is poised for growth.

“The research culture at Mason and the statistics department, in particular, is built around the idea of collaboration,” he says. “Everyone is open to sharing ideas and joining forces.”

A recent article in AMSTAT News describes the background of each of the eight new hires, who are internationally recognized experts in the areas of health care, economics, technology, clinical trials, and public policy. 

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Faye S. Taxman

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:19:24 +0000

Faye S. Taxman Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/05/2020 - 14:19

University Professor, Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence!

Contact Information

ftaxman@gmu.edu
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 524
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Personal Websites

The Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence! (ACE!)

Global Community Corrections Initiative

Biography

Faye S. Taxman is University Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government. A health services criminologist, she is an expert in implementation and intervention sciences where she has conducted various experiments to determine which processes will improve access to treatment and retention, and to formulate and assess new models of probation that is consistent with current evidence-based practices.

Taxman is the founding director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence! (ACE!), which conducts collaborative and creative research to bring evidence-based practices and treatment to practitioners and policymakers in the criminal justice and health fields.

She has been recognized for her development of system-of-care models pairing the criminal justice and health care systems together, while also re-engineering probation and parole supervision services. Taxman maintains working relationships with numerous law enforcement agencies around the country, such as the Virginia Department of Corrections, North Carolina Department of Corrections, Delaware Department of Corrections, the Alameda County Probation Department in California, and the Hidalgo County Community Corrections Department in Texas.

Taxman has more than 220 published articles, and currently serves as Principal Investigator for the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s (NIDA’s) Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) – part of NIDA’s $141-million-dollar investment in justice-health research. She is also the author of numerous books, such as Implementing Evidence-Based Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment (with Steven Belenko, Springer, 2012) and Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record (with Pamela Lattimore and Beth Huebner, Routledge Press, 2020).

Taxman has been recognized twice as a Distinguished Scholar by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Sentencing and Corrections, and has also been awarded the Rita Warren and Ted Palmer Differential Intervention Treatment Award. In 2017, she was awarded the Joan McCord Award from the Division of Experimental Criminology. In 2018, she was made a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. In 2019, she received the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Sentencing and Corrections.

Taxman codirects the Global Community Corrections Initiative with James Byrne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell).

She has a PhD from Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.

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