15,810 research outputs found
Declaration of Christopher Mason, Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics at Weill Cornell Medical College
No full textDeclaration of Christopher Mason for the United States District Court Southern District of New Yor
Considering The Mason Core: A Collaborative Visioning Workshop
No full textLocation: Gold Room
NOTE: This is a co-located workshop, meaning that it is open to both ITL attendees and the broader Mason community. You do not have to be registered for the conference to attend this session.
We are completing an assessment cycle for the Mason Core, and as we think about whether and how to update the Mason Core to better achieve our outcomes and meet the needs of today's students, we want to seek input and participation from faculty across campus. The Mason Core is the general education program that builds the foundation for the Mason Graduate, and as such should build the knowledge and skills that all Mason graduates should have, regardless of major. Since the curriculum is in the purview of the faculty, and since the Mason Core is an important part of all of our studentsâ education, the purpose of this session is to give a larger group of faculty an opportunity to grapple with and share feedback on the current Core, and to participate in shaping a vision for its future. In this workshop, we will first briefly share some of the challenges and successes that have been uncovered in the most recent round of course assessments. Next, weâll do a collaborative feedback workshop with attendees to invite perceptions and feedback on the current Mason Core. We will also share a few examples of curriculum models that are in place on other campuses, and will follow that with a collaborative visioning workshop to provide attendees with an opportunity to help shape the vision for the Mason Core as we continue to refine our curriculum to meet the needs of todayâs students. Participants will learn about some of the current successes and challenges of the Mason Core, and then will participate in a discussion aimed at generating collaborative feedback on the current framing of the Mason Core and what is and is not working. Next, facilitators will share a few examples of alternative curriculum models that are in place on other campuses, and participants will then participate in a collaborative visioning session to help shape the future of the Mason Core. Workshop participants will be asked to work in tables to discuss the following questions and then share their perspectives with the larger group, first in a feedback portion of the workshop focused on concerns about what we are doing now, and then in a visioning workshop focused on broadening our vision of what we can and might do.
Key questions:
1. What should all of our students know and be able to do when they graduate, regardless of their major?
2. Are we accomplishing the outcomes that you identified above with our current Mason Core? What are some additional ways that we can accomplish those outcomes
3. What is working well in our current Mason Core?
4. What is not working well in our current Mason Core? What would you add or change if you could?
5. How is your program contributing (or might your program contribute) to the outcomes of the Mason Core
Letter from Christopher Smith, Benjamin Mason & Chris Blackman to James B. Finley
No full textClass leader, Brother Spencer, sends a letter to Finley, preacher in charge of the Cincinnati Station. One of Spencer\u27s class members, Sarah Jane Anderson, has been accused of stealing two small pieces of muslin fabric from Mr. Robinson, and charged with immoral conduct. Spencer has notified Sister Anderson to come to Finley\u27s office on December 18th for a trial by committee. After hearing all of the evidence the three committee members (Christopher Smith, Benjamin Mason, and James Blackman) return a unanimous verdict of Not Guilty. The record of the trial and verdict are recorded on the December 17th letter from Spencer to Finley. Abstract Number - 76https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1074/thumbnail.jp
Placing the City within its Museum: The relationship between heritage, people, and territory in the Italian tradition of civic museums
No full textThe essay is part of the book "Placing Europe in the Museum", edited by Christopher Whitehead et Al. ( The International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University,United Kingdom). The collected papers developarguments concerning the cultural significance of place within museum representations for questions of contemporary European identities and notions of citizenship. The essay focuses on the italian context illustrating the very peculiar relationship existing between civic museums and their territory. The volume includes contributions of: Christopher Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason, Susannah Eckersley, Katherine Lloyd, Tomasz Maślanka, Michal Luczewski, Christine Cadot, Roxana Adina Huma, Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Barış Ülker, Kylea Little, Francesca Lanz, Michelle More, Sonja Kmec
Conflict Resolution and Civil War: Reflections on the Sudanese Settlement of 1972
No full text“Christopher R. Mitchell's ‘Conflict Resolution and Civil War: The Sudanese Settlement of 1972’ is the third in a series of Working Papers reflecting the research interests and findings of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.
George Mason Plaster Cast Collection
No full textWeb archive of the George Mason Plaster Cast Collection websiteUnder the direction of Carol Mattusch (Department of History and Art history, emerita), seventy plaster casts which had been loaned, donated, or—in few cases—purchased for George Mason University from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York were restored and placed on display across the Fairfax Campus in the years between 2005 and 2010. The Metropolitan casts had been collected by that institution during the late 19th and early 20th century, but by the 1930s, the display of casts was no longer a priority for major art museums in America and Europe. After languishing in storage for decades, the Metropolitan began a process of distributing these pieces, which included examples from throughout the history of art. GMU’s seventy pieces represent works from the Classical (Greek and Roman) Mediterranean periods through the early 20th century and feature examples from non-Western contexts as well as the Western tradition.
After being cleaned and conserved through the efforts of student and faculty volunteers, the casts were placed on display across Mason’s Fairfax campus. A substantial number were exhibited in Robinson Hall B, home of the Department of History and Art History. With the construction of Horizon Hall to replace that building, the plaster casts needed to be re-homed. In the spring of 2020, Christopher Gregg (Department of History and Art History) led a curatorial seminar of graduate and undergraduate students that re-evaluated the Robinson casts. Research confirmed and expanded information on these pieces; new labels were written in English and Spanish; the initial stages of a JSTOR catalogue database were undertaken; and a display plan to re-install the casts in Horizon Hall was designed by the students of the seminar. In addition, a book of essays, Engines of Education: Essays on the GMU Plaster Cast Collection, was produced. New photographs and measurements were also made by the Office of the University Curator. Due to logistical issues, the re-installation of the casts was delayed. The casts, however, are expected to take their place in Horizon Hall in the spring of 2025, following the arrangement proposed by the students in the seminar and with the labels produced in the class. The remainder of the collection continues to be displayed in various buildings on the Fairfax campus
Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
No full textInterview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American Cit
Discussion of Constance Quinlan's "The Story of the Caliphate: Understanding the Islamic State Through Narrative Analysis"
No full textScott W. Ruston (Arizona State University) and Christopher Marsh (US Army School of Advanced Military Studies) provide a rich discussion ofàConstance Quinlan's monograph, ââ¬ÅThe Story of the Caliphate: Understanding the Islamic State through Narrative Analysisââ¬Â.ÃÂ
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