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As an R1 research university, we turn bold ideas into real-world impact.

Washington, DC Beigetreten Aralık 2011
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AU students are tracking history in real time. @AmericanU is one of just 8 universities selected by NASA to track the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission.“It’s the farthest humans have ever gone… I can tell my kids I was part of that.” wtop.com/dc/2026/04/ame…
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A student-built radio system. A mission to the Moon. AU is 1 of only 8 universities selected to help track NASA's Orion spacecraft during Artemis II-with students collecting and sending real-time mission data back to NASA. AU students are amazing! #ArtemisII #NASA @AmericanUPhys
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Alexander Zestos
Alexander Zestos@agzestos·
An article on lab student Daniel Coughlin. It showcases some of the great work that our student-athletes do in athletics and research and how the two are interconnected such as with endorphin-related research in this case. @AUcollege @AUResearch american.edu/cas/news/danie…
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Inside the New Right: SIS visiting scholar Laura Field @lkatfield explains the ideas driving the movement and why its thinkers rallied around President Trump. Worth your time. 👇
AU School of International Service@AU_SIS

SIS visiting scholar Laura Field (@lkatfield) joins us to discuss the intellectual backbone of the New Right and explain how and why New Right thinkers coalesced around President Trump. Listen now ➡️ bit.ly/408D2Lw

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School of Public Affairs@AU_SPA·
SPA is ranked #4 overall in Nonprofit Management by U.S. News & World Report and in 2025 our faculty continued holding leadership positions in the leading nonprofit journals and conducting research that advanced the field. We are looking forward to an eventful 2026!
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School of Public Affairs@AU_SPA·
SPA Assoc. Prof. Jane Palmer cowrote "A Movement or a Moment?: An Intersectional Analysis of Student Perceptions of the Impacts of #MeToo." Their study helped advance understandings of the impacts and limitations of #MeToo on their sample.
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📣 New research from SPA @ClaudiaLPersico shows prenatal pollution exposure can lower future wages & reduce high school graduation rates. Her study, “Can Pollution Cause Poverty?”is forthcoming in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Powerful work with real-world impact👏
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SPA Assoc. Prof. @ClaudiaLPersico's new study, "Can Pollution Cause Poverty?" is forthcoming in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Her research shows that prenatal exposure to pollution can lower future wages and reduces the likelihood of graduating high school.

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Baker School of Education at AU
Baker School of Education at AU@AU_SchoolofEd·
Emily Surman, BA '18, met up with her former AU instructor Amy Trenkle to work together on the Smithsonian program Democracy in Dialogue Virtual Exchange Program for its Cohort 5 training. si.edu/educators/demo…
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#SPAintheMedia “We need to not be too hasty to assign perspectives to people based on their experiences or identity,” Lara Schwartz, Director of SPA's Project on Civic Dialogue @aucivicdialogue, said on The Academic Life podcast. She talked about her book Try to Love the Questions, a guide for productive dialogue in classrooms and in life. Listen here: apple.co/4aoiuoQ
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SIS Office of Research
SIS Office of Research@research_sis·
Curious what @AU_SIS faculty have been up to as we wrap up the fall semester? Check out our last SIS Research newsletter of 2025, featuring the grants and awards our faculty have won in the past few months, as well as a variety of publications: t.e2ma.net/webview/8qoh3g…
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American University@AmericanU·
.@AU_SIS students in Professor Stephanie Fischer’s capstone course didn’t just learn about philanthropy this semester—they put it into action. Last week, the class awarded $46,000 to local nonprofits, including $20,000 to a multigenerational DC public charter school, through a partnership with the Philanthropy Lab, an organization that provides funds to universities for hands-on learning. american.edu/sis/news/20251…
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In this new article published by @ConversationUS, Professor Garrett Graddy-Lovelace writes about why food insecurity is rising in the US even as enormous amounts of food go to waste. Read it on our website: bit.ly/3MqhO8c
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Ernesto Castañeda
Ernesto Castañeda@DrErnestoCast·
"Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration" is available in English from the Russell Sage Foundation, available in Spanish on paperback, hardcover and kindle on Amazon, and also available as an audiobook in Spanish wherever you get your audiobooks.
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