Accolades

CHSS is pleased to announce the graduate student recipients of the 2024 Dean’s Challenge scholarship. This award recognizes exceptional students not only in their superior academic achievement, but in their inspirational civic and community engagement. Learn more about the winners' research and accomplishments.

Congratulations to the seven CHSS award recipients who were celebrated at the 2024 Celebration of Teaching Excellence ceremony on April 15.

On December 5, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted the annual Mary Roper Award. Faculty and staff gathered to recognize the work of Tanie Boeddeker, graduate programs administrator in the Department of Psychology.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Afra Ahmad BA Psychology '08, MA '12, PhD '16, with the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award Faculty. Ahmad is currently the director of the online master of professional studies in applied industrial and organizational psychology.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor David Wallace* MA Psychology ' 15, PhD '17 with the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award in Psychology. Wallace served his country honorably in the United States Navy for more than 30 years. *Awarded posthumously

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Liudmila Mischenko, BA Psychology '25, as a 2023 CHSS Alumni Chapter Scholar. Mishchenko is a junior studying psychology with a concentration in applied psychology.

George Mason University associate professor of psychology Tara Chaplin has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Independent Research Scientist Award for her research on understanding the role of parenting and emotional arousal in the development of substance use in adolescence.