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09/30/2016

Mason Research is taking a break from Facebook to get some research done.

09/20/2016

Mason Robinson professor of U.S. history Spencer Crew is curator of the “Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom” exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture: http://bit.ly/2cugoWA

A wide-eyed Lance Spencer, 12, stood against the wall, between a stone block once used to auction slaves and a glass-boxed gallery where a worker was adjusting the lights on a shawl that belonged to abolitionist Harriet Tubman. “It’s cool!” the seventh-grader at Eliot-Hine Middle School in Washingto...

09/17/2016

Mason associate professor of educational psychology Kimberly Sheridan and student researcher Abigail Konopasky studied children's use of tools. They found that 3-4-year-olds showed predicted low innovation rates and that 4-7-year-olds showed higher rates of innovation than the younger children and than reported in prior studies. In a second experiment, the researchers found that children who were 5-6 and 6-7 were more likely to choose tools that they owned than to choose tools owned by the experimenter: http://bit.ly/2cjp02K

Studies of humans and other animals indicate that inventiveness often stems from factors other than need

09/16/2016

Researchers at Mason, The George Washington University and SRI International studied inclusive science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) high schools that target underrepresented minority students. The researchers identified 14 critical components that eight exemplary inclusive STEM high schools had in common. They also prepared a toolkit to help schools self-assess their STEM programs, using the inclusive STEM schools in this study as exemplars: http://bit.ly/2d69qcn

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09/16/2016

Mason psychology professor Eva Wiese, five doctoral students and 15 undergraduate students are studying how to make interacting with a robot similar to interacting with a human: http://bit.ly/2cTSwua

09/14/2016

Mason associate professor of environmental science and policy Alonso Aguirre will discuss his book: "Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities" at Fall for the Book, September 26 at 3:00 p.m.. He will be joined by contributors to the book. For more information, see: http://bit.ly/2bB9CBk

09/14/2016

Mason researcher Sita Nataraj Slavov, Utah State University researchers Frank Caliendo and Aspen Gorry and California State University, Fullerton researcher Maria Casanova used the national Health and Retirement Study to measure retirement timing uncertainty directly as the standard deviation of the difference between self-reported retirement expectations and actual retirement dates. They found deviations ranging from 4.28 to 6.92 years, depending on the sample.

The researchers found that individuals would give up 2.6% to 5.7% of total lifetime consumption to fully insure the risk of retirement date uncertainty, and 1.9% to 4% of lifetime consumption just to know for sure their actual retirement date at age 23: http://ti.me/2cmLUJm

You need a Plan B because many workers end up retiring years earlier than planned.

09/13/2016

Mason School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution professor Thomas Flores and Georgetown University professor Irfan Nooruddin are the authors of a new book: Elections in Hard Times: Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century.

09/13/2016

Mason criminology professor Cynthia Lum featured in article on broken windows and evidence-based policing: http://bit.ly/2cT80CZ

For many police departments, the notion that public disorder begets bigger crimes has become axiomatic. Research suggests that it's not that simple.

09/13/2016

Researchers at Mason, The George Washington University and SRI International studied inclusive science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) high schools that target underrepresented minority students. The researchers identified 14 critical components that eight exemplary inclusive STEM high schools had in common. They also prepared a toolkit to help schools self-assess their STEM programs, using the inclusive STEM schools in this study as exemplars: http://bit.ly/2cWe5xf

Five years ago, researchers at the George Washington University, SRI International and George Mason University began a study of inclusive science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) high schools that target underrepresented minority students. The National Science Foundation-funded study, "Oppor...

09/12/2016

Mercatus researcher George Crowley: Some states have had successes enacting tax reform in the last decade, including North Carolina, Kansas, Rhode Island, Michigan and Utah: http://bloom.bg/2c9VLPT

State's looming $1.1 billion budget shortfall sparks call for tax reform, and fast.

09/09/2016

Researchers from Mason, Utah State University and California State University, Fullerton used the national Health and Retirement Study to measure retirement timing uncertainty directly as the standard deviation of the difference between self-reported retirement expectations and actual retirement dates. They found deviations ranging from 4.28 to 6.92 years, depending on the sample.

The researchers found that individuals would give up 2.6% to 5.7% of total lifetime consumption to fully insure the risk of retirement date uncertainty, and 1.9% to 4% of lifetime consumption just to know for sure their actual retirement date at age 23: http://bit.ly/2cKS7i4

Research found individuals would forego up to 5.7% of total lifetime consumption to fully insure the risk of retirement date uncertainty.