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Friends First: AU Roommates Set Example for Bipartisanship

Noah Burke, SIS/BA ’22, and Aidan Levinson, SPA/BA ’23, hope their work together as student associates at the Sine Institute serves as an example that civility is alive and well amongst the next generation of political changemakers.
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Democratic Erosion Consortium Wins $1.7 Million State Department Grant

SPA Associate Professor Laura Paler part of team working to understand global democratic erosion and develop evidence-based policy recommendations to counteract it.
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AU Student Activist Gets Face Time with Kamala Harris

Kaniya Harris, CAS-SPA/BA ’24, and other student activists visited the White House for a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris about reproductive rights.
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