AU Research

• Dana Fisher, director of AU’s Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, cowrote an article for TIME magazine about why climate resilience is a bipartisan cause. 
• W. Joseph Campbell, professor emeritus in the School of Communication, wrote an article for The Conversation about how the rise of prediction markets has influenced election polling in the US. 
• Allan Lichtman, distinguished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, spoke with Newsweek about how to effectively evaluate American presidencies and his new book, Great American Presidents: The Twelve Who Transformed the Nation.
• Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, professor in the School of Public Affairs, and Carolyn Gallaher, associate dean for faculty affairs in the School of International Service, cowrote an article for The Conversation about why Irish reunification is complicated.

AU Experience

• Interim President David Marchick spoke with The Washington Post about the first cohort of the Freedom Media Innovation Lab at the Kogod School of Business, which is helping ex-Voice of America and US Agency for Global Media staffers learn about media entrepreneurship.
• Tull Osman, SIS/MA ’26, spoke with DC News Now about her work as the outreach director of the DC Tutoring and Mentoring Initiative. 

AU Perspective

• Joseph Torigian, professor in the School of International Service, spoke with Reuters about the expulsion of military leaders Zhang Youxia and ⁠Liu ⁠Zhenli from the Chinese Communist Party. He also spoke with WUSA9about last week’s summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. 
• William Lawrence, senior adjunct professorial lecturer in the School of International Service, spoke with Reuters about whether the US will follow Turkey into the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis.
• Thomas Kahn, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, spoke with The Christian Science Monitor about the bipartisan effort required to enact changes to Social Security.
• Matthew Foster, professorial lecturer in the School of Public Affairs, spoke with The Philadelphia Inquirer about the effectiveness of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s fundraising efforts.
• Jim Crotty, adjunct professorial lecturer in the School of Public Affairs, cowrote an opinion article for The Hill about why the US is seeing both an increase in overdoses across the country and a recent decline in overdose-related deaths.