The meeting will be videoconferenced to the Arlington Campus Original Building, Room 250, and the Prince William Campus Occoquan Building, Room 221.

Petersen will discuss the current legislative issues regarding military, veterans and military family concerns. Representatives from the Veterans Society and the Office of Military Services will also attend.

All are invited to this free event.

For more information, contact Stacey Remick-Simkins, at 703-993-1162 or sremicks@gmu.edu.

J. Knox Singleton

J. Knox Singleton, president and CEO of Inova Health System and vice rector of Mason’s Board of Visitors, will speak as part of the School of Management’s Johnson & Strachan Distinguished Speaker Series on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in the Johnson Center Cinema.

Singleton has 26 years of experience stewarding Inova Health System, one of the nation’s most integrated and most wired health care delivery systems and one of the largest in the metropolitan Washington region. During his lecture, Singleton will provide a unique perspective on the current state of the U.S. health care system as well as the proposed government reform plan.

The Johnson & Strachan Distinguished Speaker Series, sponsored by Johnson & Strachan Insurance, is a community-based academic initiative that enriches the educational experience of the school’s students, faculty, and alumni while building and strengthening relationships with the region’s business community.

All are welcome to attend, tickets are free and space is limited. Reserve tickets today at som.gmu.edu/dss.

Collagraph by Peter Marcus

The School of Art brings to campus this month the architectural prints of Peter Marcus and the large-scale paper and print works of Joan Hall, both of the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis.

The exhibition will be displayed in the Fine Art Gallery in the Art and Design Building on Mason’s Fairfax Campus from Nov. 9 through Dec. 4. An opening reception will be held in the gallery on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, Peter Marcus founded the Washington University collaborative printmaking workshop in the 1970s and built the first large-scale press capable of printing two different kinds of plates, lithographic and intaglio.

As an art student in the 1960s, Marcus was told by a professor that organic and geometric forms should never coexist in the same work, a rule that he has spent his career breaking.

Marcus’ work combines his love of architecture (specifically in his hometowns of St. Louis, Mo., and Jamestown, R.I.) with intaglio, a technique used to describe any image that is printed from a recessed design in a plate.

"Your Existence Is Not Unlike My Own" by Joan Hall

Joan Hall is a Kenneth Hudson Professor of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. She also has had her work shown nationally and internationally, and it has been published in more than 10 books.

Hall’s large-scale works combine papermaking and printmaking techniques using netting and multiple layers of translucent and transparent paper, which she says gives them the “impression of floating images, conveying deep memory of time.” The layers are only attached at the top, allowing air currents to gently move the papers, which “taunts the viewer to fix the ‘right’ perspective.”

Helen Frederick, an associate professor in Mason’s School of Art, says, “As viewers, we intuit Hall’s phenomenal spaces as water, wind, currents and waves. These works seamlessly shift our vision from reality to metaphor and leave us not only with many realms of poetic meaning, but perhaps a new sense of mobility as well.”

David Weisburd, 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology winner and Administration of Justice professor, was interviewed by Mary Lou Leary, acting assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, during a videotaped session titled "Hot Spots Policing and Why It Works." The taping occurred on Oct. 26 at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. The audience included police executives such as D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III, as well as Justice Department employees. Photo by James Greif

Mason professors have been active in the news, providing the most up-to-date analysis regarding the Virginia gubernatorial race.

Following is a sample of what they said.

Washington Examiner, Oct. 26, “Landslide Could Elevate McDonnell Nationally” by Bill Myers
Stephen Farnsworth, assistant professor of communication, said that a victory for Bob McDonnell would raise his profile in the Republican Party at a time when the party is looking for leadership.

CNN, Nov. 3, “Analysis: Anger, Frustration Fuel Election Day 2009” by Paul Steinhauser
Mark Rozell, professor in the School of Public Policy, said that a Republican win in Virginia could signal that the party is alive and well and could be in play for future elections.

NewsChannel 8, Nov. 2, “Polls Show Virginia Republican Candidates Lead in 3 Statewide Races”
Mark Rozell said that in Virginia, the fortunes of the Democrats and Republicans can change from one year to the next, depending on a number of factors.

Wall Street Journal, Oct. 31, “Virginia Race Tests Obama’s Staying Power” by Corey Dade
Michael McDonald, associate professor of public and international affairs, discussed the candidates’ campaign strategies.

PoliticsDaily.com, Nov. 3, “Is Bob McDonnell the Future of the GOP?” by Jill Lawrence
Mark Rozell discussed Bob McDonnell’s comfort in addressing secular and evangelical communities.

Washington Examiner, Oct. 26, “Deeds Walks Tightrope on Obama Popularity, Policy” by William C. Flook
Toni-Michelle Travis, associate professor of public and international affairs, discussed Creigh Deeds’ campaign decisions vis-à-vis the White House.

The game is Mason vs. Dartmouth on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m. at the Patriot Center.

Mason faculty and staff members are eligible to receive four free tickets and a concession stand voucher for this game. All ticket requests will be taken via e-mail at this time. Send a request with the number of tickets needed to icatix@gmu.edu.

For a complete Mason Basketball schedule visit the GoMason web site.

The fair is open to Mason students, students from other schools, as well as the general public.

Those who register and forward their resume by Nov. 6 will be included in a resume book that will be distributed to all the companies participating. There is no charge for job seekers.

To register and obtain additional information, go to the chapter web site.

For other questions, e-mail gmuasce@gmail.com or contact the career fair chair, Megan Salame, at msalame@gmu.edu.

The eighth annual reception will take place in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall Lobby from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

In addition to celebrating this past year’s achievements, the winners of this year’s Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Awards will be formally honored.

The awardees are Michelle M. Buehl, an assistant professor of education in the Educational Psychology Program, Graduate School of Education in the College of Education and Human Development; Songqing Chen, assistant professor of computer science in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering; and Jon B. Gould, an associate professor in the Department of Administration of Justice and director of the Center for Justice, Law and Society in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Michelle Buehl

Before coming to Mason, Buehl was an assistant professor at the University of Memphis from 2003 to 2006. Her research interests focus on the role of student and teacher beliefs, particularly their beliefs about knowledge in relation to learning, motivation and academic development. Her work has been published in such outlets as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Psychology Review, and the International Journal of Educational Research.

Buehl was a visiting scholar at Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and a visiting research academic at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has been honored with an Outstanding Paper Award from the Southwest Educational Research Association and a Division C Graduate Student Research Excellence Award from the American Educational Research Association.

She received a BA in psychology with departmental honors from Hollins University. She earned her postgraduate degrees from the University of Maryland: an MA in measurement, statistics and evaluation; and a PhD in human development.

Songqing Chen

Chen came to Mason in 2004. Previously, he was a research assistant in the College of William & Mary’s Department of Computer Science High Performance Computing and Software Lab, where he completed his doctoral studies.

Chen’s research interests mainly focus on design, analysis and implementation of algorithms and experimental systems in the distributed and networking environment, particularly in the areas of distributed systems and Internet measurement; modeling; and content delivery, operating systems and system security. His research has been published in numerous refereed journals, and Chen has served as a reviewer for a number of IEEE publications, as well as others.

A recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Chen also has been honored with an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering Rising Star Faculty Research Award and a Computer Science Outstanding Research Award.

In addition to his PhD from William & Mary, Chen earned a BS and an MS in computer science and engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.

Jon Gould

Gould’s research interests are in law and justice, with an emphasis on civil rights and liberties, judicial administration, evaluation of justice functions and popular construction of the law.

Before joining Mason in 1999, Gould practiced law with a Washington, D.C., firm, directed human rights programming, served as chief of staff for a college president and worked on the national staff of two presidential campaigns. Gould has been chair of the Innocence Commission for Virginia and a Supreme Court fellow.

Gould’s book, “Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation,” won the 2006 Herbert Jacob Award for the best book in law and society. Other honors include a Justice Studies Association Social Activist Award, a Mellon Foundation Dissertation fellowship, and George Mason University Junior Faculty Research and Teaching Awards.

Gould holds an AB from the University of Michigan, an MPP from Harvard University, a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the University of Chicago.

James McCarthy. Photo by Rashad Mulla

James McCarthy has come to Mason to bring all security systems matters under one roof.

McCarthy will be in charge of cameras, access card systems, alarms and all matters regarding security systems on campus. Right now, he is working to unify the school’s building security systems. Before the physical security position was created, the university purchased individual systems on a building-by-building basis. Now, McCarthy is working on developing a set of protocols that new buildings on campus will follow and old ones will eventually use.

“Before, there wasn’t one set of guidelines to follow, in terms of security,” McCarthy says. “We’re getting there slowly. It’s not something that will happen overnight.”

McCarthy, who was hired by University Police in August, has been exploring security systems that could span the entire campus in a cost-effective manner. He has also been hard at work building relationships with various departments, such as Housing and Facilities Management. Several projects are on the drawing board, he adds.

“A lot here is very good – it’s just a matter of pulling it all together,” McCarthy says. “I think people have been looking forward to this [position] for awhile.”

McCarthy brings 17 years of experience as a police officer, security specialist and program director to Mason.

He spent 12 years in the Harvard University police department, where he was eventually promoted to area commander. He was the chief of public safety at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston for a short while afterward. He then became the director of the emergency management program in Ruidoso, N.M., a city prone to wildfires. In his last stop before Mason, he was the director of security at Renown Health in Reno, Nev.

McCarthy can be contacted at jmccar10@gmu.edu or 703-993-2451.

The session will be held in the Johnson Center Paul Robeson Room, 240A, beginning promptly at 11:30 a.m. and concluding at 1 p.m. This event is open to all interested members of the Mason community.

The discussion will be facilitated by Charlene Y. Douglas, associate professor in the College of Health and Human Services.

According to ABFAS, the intention behind the discussion is to find out more information from an expert in the field and talk candidly among co-workers about the health care system in a nonpoliticized and nonpartisan setting.

In addition, the event furthers the organization’s commitment to highlighting the many accomplished colleagues within the campus community in their respective areas of expertise.

For more information on ABFAS, see the web site.