The College of Humanities and Social Sciences recognized the 14 student winners of the 2012-2013 Dean’s Challenge Award, which recognizes exceptional students for their work in and out of the classroom.

Laurie Robinson, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice, will join Mason’s faculty in fall 2012 as Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society.

Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Douglas Greenberg, Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, are the featured speakers of the 2012 College of Humanities and Social Sciences convocations.