Accolades

Each semester we honor graduating students nominated by their departments for their academic achievement and contributions to their respective fields. Please join us in celebrating the spring 2026 undergraduate and graduate student honorees.

Associate Professor Andrew Novak was awarded the honor by the George Mason Online Teaching Excellence Awards Selection Committee.

Larry Guerin, adjunct instructor in the Criminology, Law and Society department as well as in the Costello College of Business, received the award in front of a full class of students during his Introduction to Criminal Justice course last fall.

Welcome to our monthly compilation of good news, gathered from the college's faculty and staff!

Welcome to our monthly compilation of good news, gathered from the college's faculty and staff!

The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Experimental Criminology awarded Professor Christopher Koper the 2025 Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award.

The American Society of Criminology’s Academy of Experimental Criminology awarded Distinguished University Professor Cynthia Lum the 2025 Joan McCord Award.

Welcome to our monthly compilation of good news, gathered from CHSS faculty and staff!

Data mining website ScholarGPS ranked David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Executive Director of Mason's Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, seventh overall in lifetime research achievement in the areas of criminology and criminal justice.

Talley Bettens, a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Justice to support her dissertation research on interrogation practices and false confessions in high school misconduct cases.