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AU Club Feature: Undergraduate Women in Business fosters connections and promotes inclusivity

By Rachel Sturm | April 5

The club implements initiatives to help new members and encourage development in all capacities

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Student experiences during the age of coronavirus

By Abbie Veitch and Sophia Solano | March 26

“There was this overarching sense of anxiety that there was nothing I could do to stop this disease”

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AU Club Feature: Ethiopian and Eritrean Student Association keeps busy with virtual events

By Cecilia Markley | March 23

Affinity group collaborates with other campus groups, uses social media to celebrate Black History Month

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AU Club Feature: KOGOD Organization of Latinx Leaders Across Business provides networking opportunities

By Giovanna Aguilar Chee | March 19

New club provides students space to promote Latinx culture and learn about Latinx business sphere domestically and internationally

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AU freshman’s nonprofit Ngoma Kenya highlighted on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’

By Zoe Kallenekos | March 12

Ngoma Kenya provides arts education and humanitarian aid

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Today’s Trailblazers: Black student activists at AU reflect on accomplishments, goals

By Daniella Ignacio | February 28

Learn more about BlackList, Black Girls Vote and Bring The Fire

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History professors reflect on how 2020 may be remembered

By Alisha Chhangani | February 27

Experts look back on pandemic, racism reckoning and political upheaval

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AU alumni named to positions in the Biden administration

By Sarah Fahn and Amelia Reuben | February 13

SPA alumna Shuwanza Goff was the first Black woman to serve as floor director in the House

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AU PhD students give Metro cards to unhoused residents before the inauguration

By Sophia Solano | February 12

The pandemic brought on various challenges for unhoused residents

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AU Club Feature: Latinx and American Student Organization continues work despite pandemic setbacks

By Cecilia Markley | February 11

Members of the Latinx cultural club plan virtual events for spring semester, including hosting speakers, releasing newsletter

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Activist Spotlight: ‘The Cultural Reset’ connects BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, fans and music executives to create a more inclusive industry

By Clare Mulroy | February 7

AU alum’s organization will feature “all Black everything” for Black History Month

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Months before Inauguration Day, AU students drove 30 hours to vote

By Maegan Seaman | January 20

Two AU juniors made the drive from D.C. to Texas

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Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars make history as first all-Black female cohort

By Alisha Chhangani | January 19

“FDDS is a reminder that I deserve to be here and that I am smart and capable.”

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Former AU postdoctoral fellow urges Indigenous recognition beyond Native American Heritage Month

By Sophia Solano | December 21

Elizabeth Rule is the director of Indigenous policy center at GWU

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Lonnie Bunch, AU alum and Smithsonian secretary, works to capture tumultuous time in US history

By Sarah Mattalian | December 14

Bunch hopes to find "the right tension between tradition and innovation"

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CAS professor correctly predicts 2020 presidential election

By Ben Johansen | December 7

Allan Lichtman helped create a “13 keys” system to forecast elections

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AU student launches petition calling for Yom Kippur to become a non-instructional day

By Maegan Seaman | November 24

Petition collected over 500 signatures

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