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Tim Doud with his Art at Amtrak mural “A Great Public Work”

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College Faculty Receive 80 Awards Totaling Over $11 Million in 2023

Faculty awards making impacts on issues at local, national, and global levels
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Susanna Campbell, Foreign Policy and Development

Susanna Campbell's new chapter "Foreign Policy and Development" in the Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis discusses how foreign aid is foreign policy.
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Sarah Snyder, Brother’s Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public-Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century

Sarah Snyder's new book chapter in Public Health and the American State is "Brother’s Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public-Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century."
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer wins Niwano Peace Prize

Mohammed Abu-Nimer is the recipient of the 41st Niwano Peace Prize in recognition of his lifelong commitment to peace and interfaith dialogue.
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Joe Young

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Understanding Paths to Peace

SPA Professor Examines the Drivers and Outcomes of Terrorism and International Conflict
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Maria De Jesus, Mobility paradoxes: disruptors, benefits, and agency among mobile female sex workers living with HIV in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania

Maria De Jesus' new co-authored article explores how mobility impacts the lives, livelihoods, and HIV care and treatment from the perspectives of women living with HIV in two epidemic settings, the Dominican Republic and Tanzania.
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William Akoto, Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage

William Akoto's new article in the Journal of Peace Research contributes new insights to explain why cyber economic espionage appears restricted to only a small number of advanced economies.
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Youth Attitudes on Guns

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New Report Shares First-Hand Experiences of Young Americans’ Relationship with Guns

New Report Shares First-Hand Experiences of Young Americans’ Relationship with Guns
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Professor Valentina Bruno delivering her inaugural lecture as Kogod Eminent Scholar in Finance.

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AU Installs New Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in Finance

Professor Valentina Bruno is an innovator within the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. Her appointment marks another milestone in the Kogods’ legacy of philanthropy at AU.
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Carl LeVan, Varieties of Mistrust and American Epistemic Fragility

Carl LeVan's new article in Political Research Quarterly identifies social and political conditions that increase different types of “vertical” mistrust in America.
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