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First-and-Second-Year Students Explore Their New Home

The Explore DC program inspires students to challenge their views, keep serving in the DMV.
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SOC Faculty Reflects on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

Various members of AU’s School of Communication were active journalists on that day. Here are some of their collected thoughts and reflections from that day and the aftermath.
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Acknowledging Loss from the Pandemic and Looking Forward with Hope

Interfaith service of remembrance and prayer, memorial garden help community “pause and understand grief”
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