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����AV history PhD candidate Jayme Kurland is living her dream this academic year as the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

George Mason psychology professor Thalia R. Goldstein’s work focuses on children's developing social and emotional skills, and how such skills intersect with imaginative activities. In her latest book, Why Theatre Education Matters: Understanding its Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits (Teachers College Press, 2024), she pulls together the research she’s conducted on social and emotional learning and cognitive development.

On this episode of Access to Excellence, Keith Clark joins President Gregory Washington to discuss Baldwin's legacy, the powerful lessons found in Black literature, and the importance of bearing witness to the past in order to make a better future.

How likely are humans to trust a robot, especially if that robot has the capacity to lie? This is the question ����AV psychology doctoral candidate Andres Rosero is exploring in his research on human-robot interaction.

In January, renowned author, animal scientist, and autism advocate Temple Grandin came to ����AV’s Fairfax Campus for a series of talks and Q&A sessions.

During the fall 2024 semester, ����AV students had the opportunity to apply their classroom curriculum to a real-world museum environment. The students, led by art history professor Robert DeCaroli, worked directly with objects in the holdings of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art as part of the ARTH 495/595 Curating an Exhibit course.

Graduating psychology student Caroline Little said she grew up at ����AV. “I have grown from a child to an adult at George Mason in ways I could have never thought possible. I came here a teenager, and left here a married mother of two,” said Little. Little, who will travel from Alabama to address her fellow graduates as the 2024 Winter Commencement Student Speaker, will welcome her second child, Isabella, this winter. 

George Mason English professor Kyoko Mori writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her latest book, Cat and Bird, has been called a “memoir in animals” and focuses on the six house cats who defined the major eras of her life as a writer.

����AV associate professor Gabrielle Tayac’s course, HIST 397 Public History in Action, looks at how indigenous communities interact with our student population through community-based engagement and projects.

Deepthi Murali and Jason Heppler of ����AV’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.