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A pair of George Mason University professors are helping needy nonprofits refine their messaging strategies with the help of customized chatbots.

While book bans are not new to the American electorate, the rise in these bans since 2021 has sparked contentious media debates. Paradoxically, this has increased the readership of banned books and given politicians on both sides a platform to exploit controversy.

In her off hours, Mariia Petryk, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, is using her data science expertise to help bring decentralized medicine to conflict zones—starting with her birth country, Ukraine.

New research suggests there’s at least one group of people applauding the collapse of local journalism in the United States: corrupt politicians.

A George Mason marketing professor is using AI to help organizations gain deeper insights into consumers based on very little information

The controversy about biased policing seems to draw endless fuel from race-based differences in public perception. Simply put, the vast majority of White citizens in the United States believe the police are doing a good job, including on issues of racial equality, while a similar percentage of Black citizens hold the opposite opinion. Brad Greenwood, professor of information systems and operations management, researches how digital technologies are bringing unprecedented transparency to police practices.

Like financial markets, the creative industries are driven to seek equilibrium, which may be good news for both human content creators and their algorithmic adversaries. Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance, is researching this in a new working paper.

Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance at the Costello College of Business, has received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. According to the NSF website, the CAREER award is given to “early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”

Even famously neutral news organizations are not immune to the pressure to compete for clicks in the increasingly partisan online marketplace.

With the rise of online learning, cheating has become easier than ever. And perhaps more prevalent as well, suggests one Mason accounting professor.