Four faculty members honored with 2020 Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence

The United Bank Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion: Cynthia Fuchs, director of Film and Video Studies at Mason in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and an associate professor of English in CHSS. The United Bank Medal honors a faculty member who has made extraordinary contributions to advancing diversity and inclusion. Fuchs, creator and curator of the Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason for the past 25 years, ensured that the mission of this program create “opportunities for students, community members, and filmmakers to meet and discuss diverse and necessary films and themes.” She is also a faculty member in African and African American Studies, Sport and American Culture, and Women and Gender Studies.