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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.

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.  

CHSS recently showcased faculty and student research at its "Human-Centered AI: Bridging Humanities, Social Sciences, and Technology" summit. View the presentations online, and learn how CHSS is at the forefront of emerging technologies research and teaching through work on ethics and artificial intelligence, human interaction with robots, and other exciting multidisciplinary collaborations.

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

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Jeff Williams, MA Psychology '93, with the 2024 Distinguished Alumni award in psychology. Williams is committed to improving the security of the software for the world. He has founded and led three highly successful organizations to help solve the problem. Williams is currently the chief technology officer at Contrast Security.

CHSS was honored to host Provost James Antony for a tour of several spaces across the Fairfax Campus where CHSS faculty and students conduct some of our signature work.

In high school and as an undergraduate student, Dan Gartenberg, MA Psychology ’12, PhD ’16, would stay up late and struggle to wake early, a typical experience for many students. Early on in his graduate studies at George Mason University, he took a course on the neuroscience of sleep and was hooked.

Our Human Factors Applied Cognition PhD student Lydia Melles has been chosen to participate in this year’s Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers program!

Advanced Topics in Human Factors offers an interactive, impactful hands-on curriculum that challenges students to solve real-life issues. The course started with the study of advanced human factors principles before progressing to a series of projects that gave students the opportunity to apply those principles to human factors projects on campus.