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CHNM Grants Administrator Andy Privee Wins the 2009 GMU Mary Roper Award

December 3, 2009

Andy Privee, the grants administrator for the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), and Kathy Secrist, a long-time staff member of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, were each presented with a 2009 Mary Roper award in a ceremony at the George Mason University Center for the Arts December 2nd.
The Roper Award began in 2001 [...]

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