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  • Historian Laura Beers's book Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century received the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and Shorenstein Center's 2025 Goldsmith Book Prize, in addition to being named a New Yorker Best Book of 2024.
  • Philip Johnson (Physics) has received $1,599,868 NASA for “Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System and Beyond” and received $369,990.68 from NASA for “Spectroscopic Investigations of Processed Planetary and Astrophysical Ices with the Sublimation Laboratory Ice Millimeter/submillimeter Experiment.”
  • American University officially launched the  Translating Research into Action Center (TRAC). TRAC, which is funded through a $5.7M, four-year cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation Accelerating Research Translation program, is a university-wide initiative established to strengthen our capacity to speed and scale translational research.  

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