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Cynthia Lum, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, has been named the 2023 Distinguished Scholar from the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Policing.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ psychology professor 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.

Robert Matz, dean of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Korea, will conclude his term at the end of the Spring 2024 semester and return to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences as a faculty member of the Department of English.

Kevynne Dimaano, English major, spent her summer interning with the Library of Congress where she developed a puzzle game based on early 20th century newspaper rebuses.

Ever since sixth grade, Ricky Chang looked up at the stars and wondered what could be out there in the vastness of unexplored space. With a summer internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he had a front row seat to interstellar research.

Four faculty in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's College of Humanities and Social Sciences have been awarded grant awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, totaling more than $600,000.

Alaina Ruffin will not be the first, second, or third, but fourth person in her family to graduate from Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Her mother and two older cousins graduated from Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2000, 2001, and 2013 respectively.

This October, Northern Virginia’s oldest book festival, Fall for the Book, celebrates their 25th anniversary.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor Andrew Peterson and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania have received a $3.1 million grant funded by the National Institute on Aging to investigate how it can improve health outcomes for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

PSYC 461 Advanced Topics in Human Factors is an interactive, hands-on curriculum that challenges students to solve real-life issues offered for the first time in the spring 2023 semester.