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Author Reading: Mason Deaver
No full textAward-winning young adult author Mason Deaver is returning (virtually) to CWU to discuss their new book, The Ghosts We Keep.
This emotional, character-driven journey is about a nonbinary teenager grieving their first shattering loss and, moving forward, allowing that experience to be a guidepost for the relationships that are important to them...An unflinchingly honest story that doesn’t shy away from the complex emotions of grief but also offers a hopeful path forward for Liam and everyone else left behind in the wake of Ethan’s death. ~ Alaina Leary, Booklist
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An Agent-Based Spatially Explicit Epidemiological Model in MASON
Full text linkThis paper outlines the design and implementation of an agent-based epidemiological simulation system. The system was implemented in the MASON toolkit, a set of Java-based agent-simulation libraries. This epidemiological simulation system is robust and extensible for multiple applications, including classroom demonstrations of many types of epidemics and detailed numerical experimentation on a particular disease. The application has been made available as an applet on the MASON web site, and as source code on the author\'s web site.Epidemiology, Social Networks, Agent-Based Simulation, MASON Toolkit
Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future
No full textA recording of a Mason Author Series talk by Louise Shelley, author of "Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future" (Princeton University Press, 2018). Professor Shelley is the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy, University Professor, and Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center in the Schar School of Government at George Mason University
Oral history interview with Michael Mason
No full textMichael Mason, an author and journalist with roots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, describes his childhood in the 1970s and 1980s and the hard times that came along with being Hispanic in Tulsa during that time. Mason shares that reading became his escape and explains how that influenced his decision to major in English in college. He talks about his various jobs from advertising to being a psychological technician at a hospital. Mason discusses the creation of This Land, a website for high quality journalism. He also talks about the intricacies when writing about Oklahoma and how there are so many untold stories.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
The Evolution of Courses in Evolutionary Medicine
No full textLOCATION: Dewberry Hall, Johnson Center (Ground Floor); Group B 4:45-5:15pm
Evolutionary perspectives on disease first began to be formally introduced in courses in the 1990s, with the publication of Why We Get Sick (Nesse and Williams, 1994), although medical anthropologists have been taking a biocultural approach towards studying health since at least the 1960s (meanthro.net) and biological anthropologists formalized paleopathology as a field in 1973 (paleopathologyassociation.wildapricot.org). The author began teaching an undergraduate course on evolutionary medicine, paleopathology, and demography in 2002. The course has evolved into two course that have been taught almost continuously in three different institutions (SUNY Potsdam, St. Lawrence University, and George Mason University). These courses are continually evolving. The author now teaches both classes at undergraduate and graduate levels, and they serve as electives for students in anthropology, health and nutrition programs. This poster visually shows the evolution of aspects of the course(s) over time.
 
Admitting Bias: A Review of the Test-Optional Admission Policy at George Mason University
Full text linkThis thesis describes a national trend of test-optional admission policies within Undergraduate colleges and universities. The research evaluates the test-optional enrollement process specifically at George Mason University. George Mason University implemented a test-optional admission policy during the 2007 admission cycle and has seen significant growth in the total application numbers and demographics of their students. In the process of researching and writing this thesis, the author conducted a literature review and evaluated non-identifying students data related to application types, grade-point average and demographics. This thesis is slated to be a resource for George Mason University and other institutions considering the implementation of a test-optional admission policy
Bobbie Ann Mason
No full textA documentary film on Mayfield, Kentucky author Bobbie Ann Mason. The film chronicles her writing career, including her early love of reading, her time as president of the Hilltoppers\u27 fan club, college life, and her career as a writer for a fan magazine in New York. She shares her influences, creative processes and perceptions of the joys and difficulties of being a writer. She also discusses her award-winning novels, In Country and Feather Crowns, and presents readings from Love Life, Shiloh and Other Stories, and Spence and Lila. Includes interviews with her family, friends, and literary agent. Produced by Kentucky Educational Television in 1995
Original Conference Announcement
No full textDear Mason community,
We hope that you, your family, and your friends are staying safe and well during this difficult time. All of us in the Stearns Center are working to ensure that instructors of all levels are supported through and after the COVID-19 crisis.
The Innovations in Teaching & Learning (ITL) conference has always been a unique space for Mason instructors, GTAs, administrators, and staff to forge a sense of community around teaching and learning. As the future remains uncertain, we need to foster such connections now more than ever. For the first time, Mason’s (12th) annual Innovations in Teaching & Learning (ITL) conference will be held online with sessions scheduled across the last week in September (Sept. 21-25).
Our goal is to serve and support as many people teaching at Mason as possible with an online event that embraces the generative community spirit and interactive nature of the face-to-face ITL experience. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Bryan Alexander—author of the increasingly relevant new book Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education—is enthusiastic about joining us for both the online conference and an interactive virtual workshop. We are including value-added online features that we hope make online participation well worth your time.
Going virtual has additional benefits—it reduces program cost, so that with the help of our sponsors we can offer FREE registration for the conference this year. It also affords us an opportunity to be more inclusive and accessible than ever to our instructors across campuses.
Please visit our website or reach out to the staff at the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning ([email protected]) to stay informed about the work we are doing to support instructors during these challenging times.
We sincerely appreciate your support and flexibility during this time and wish you an inspiring experience at the conference.
In solidarity,
Laura Lukes, Ph.D.
2020 ITL Conference Director
On behalf of the entire Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Planning Tea
An options-based model of equilibrium credit rationing
No full textThis paper applies options theory to the model of equilibrium credit rationing developed by [Stiglitz, J.E., Weiss, A., 1981. Credit rationing in markets with imperfect information, American Economic Review, 71, 727–752.] by noticing that, given a standard debt contract and limited liability, the payoffs to the lender and the borrower when a loan is made involve a put and call option respectively. Information asymmetry is modelled using stochastic volatility option pricing methods. There are three advantages to the options approach. First, the well-known comparative statics of option pricing provide an alternative and immediate proof for many of Stiglitz and Weiss' results. Secondly, the framework accommodates several theoretical extensions to the basic results. Finally, the approach allows an assessment of the empirical significance of equilibrium credit rationing, since the model is easily parameterised. Simulations of the model suggest that rationing is unlikely to be significant at the collateral levels observed in the U.S and U.K. small commercial loan market
Interactive online activities for increasing students' discipline-specific career knowledge and readiness
No full textAs the number of mobile phone users grows and social networking sites like Linkedin.com expand their educational content and e-learning applications, faculty have the opportunity to use M-learning (mobile learning) more actively as a tool to boost studentââ¬â¢s major industry knowledge and career readiness. àThis interactive teaching demonstration presents an innovative assignment that engages students by using LinkedIn.com as a mobile learning (M-Learning) tool. It provides strategies for students to enhance their career readiness by asking them to research, read, consume, and interact with current industry-specific intelligence and news relevant to their major or field(s) of study. àThis assignment also supports research skills by encouraging students to critically consume mobile intelligence. This assignment is informed by best practices in assignment design by Writing Across the Curriculum expert John Bean, author of Engaging Ideas, as well as the Gateway Course Institute, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Transformational Planning Grant, in which the author participated.àA recent paper (not yet published) by Dr. Farrokh Alemi, Professor of Health Informatics at George Mason University, on collecting insights that inform curriculum innovation through Linkedin also informs this presentation. àParticipants will be able to use this type of assignment and its associated mobile platform across disciplines
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