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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Raj Ratwani, MA Psychology '04, PhD '08, with the Distinguished Alumni Award in psychology. Ratwani is vice president of scientific affairs at the MedStar Health Research Institute, director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and professor of emergency medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Martin Wiener, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, has received a multi-year award from the National Science Foundation. The project aims to explore how the brain processes time when looking at images, with important implications for understanding memory, learning, and visual perception.

Together with Claude Moore Opportunities and the ConnerStrong Foundation, CCMH hosted a training led by Sources of Strength—a nationally renowned, evidence-based suicide prevention and mental health program—for George Mason clinical psychology students. Program curriculum will be implemented in local schools across Virginia to improve mental health among youth populations.

Kashdan discusses the power of principled dissent and curiosity in leadership.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Karin Orvis, MA Psychology '01, PhD '07, with the 2025 CHSS alumni service award. Orvis has served in senior executive-level roles across the U.S. Federal Government, strategically leading multidisciplinary, interagency teams in designing, implementing, and evaluating enterprise-wide policies and programs.

The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) has appointed Adam Winsler, Professor of Psychology, as co-editor-in-chief of its flagship journal, Child Development.

The state-of-the-art building will house labs and initiatives to foster cross-discipline research, innovation programming, partnership, and community engagement for George Mason students, researchers, and commercial partners.  

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.