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Shiwali Patel Receives Milstein Award

WCL ·

Celebrating Service and Leadership

WCL's Clinical Program Celebrates the 2025 Milstein Award Recipient and Three Departing Practitioners-in-Residence
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Research ·

Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz, The politics of war and aggression

Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz's co-authored paper is "The politics of war and aggression: scholarly biases in public discourse on the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine."
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Photo by Jeff Watts.

Achievements ·

What AU’s Class of 2025 Needed to Know

Inspiration from an actor, president and CEO of Capital Area Food Bank, and the publisher of The Wall Street Journal headlined AU’s 149th commencement.
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Mentors for CONNECTdmv. Photo courtesy of Tom Kohn.

In the Community ·

Connecting Us All

Local nonprofit CONNECTdmv leverages AU people, spaces, and resources to help close the opportunity gap for students and families of color at DC independent schools.
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Research ·

SIS Announces 2025 Research Fellows

Sumitra Badrinathan and Sarah Khan have won the SIS Collaborative Research Award, and Samantha Bradshaw and Jesse Ribot are the joint winners of this year's SIS High-Performing Scholar Award.
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Photo courtesy of Andrés Izquierdo.

Arts ·

A Lawyer Becomes an Artist

WCL alumnus and staff member Andrés Izquierdo harnessed his love of painting in AU’s studio art MFA program.
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St Peter's Basilica viewed from the Tiber River

Achievements ·

Poetry and the Eternal City: David Keplinger Wins Prestigious Rome Prize

As recipient of the 2025 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, Keplinger will spend five months in Rome
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Headshots of Professors Bruno, Churchill, and Duque

Announcement ·

Three AU Scholars Receive Affiliated Appointments at NBER

NBER is the nation’s leading organization for independent economic research.
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David A. Douglas, Moving Day, 2023.

Announcement ·

American University Museum Opens Summer ’25 Exhibitions on June 14

New shows explore the nostalgia of memory and place, Korean contemporary art created by local artists, combat photojournalism during the Vietnam War, and what it means to be a teenager in America today.
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New York Intensive 2025

Communications ·

Networking, Newsrooms, and Nightlife on the 2025 New York Intensive

SOC students reflect on their experiences meeting esteemed alumni and going BTS at communications agencies and newsrooms to explore future careers on their trip to New York City.
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