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Accountability Research Center Awarded $1Million Funding from Ford Foundation

AU's Accountability Research Center Awarded $1Million Funding from Ford Foundation to Convene Dialogues with Social Organizations on Democratic Governance
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State Department Partnership Offers Real-World Experience

Through an exciting academic initiative with the US Department of State, SIS students conducted research with real-world impact this semester.
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Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal Receives Sloan Foundation Grant

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded $951,000 to the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal for a new project headed by Director of Research Sara Nawaz.
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Samantha Bradshaw, Technical infrastructure as a hidden terrain of disinformation

Samantha Bradshaw's new co-authored article in the Journal of Cyber Policy examines terrains of disinformation in digital infrastructure.
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PhD Student Steven Bradford Awarded 2025 Schlesinger Fellowship

SIS PhD Student Steven Bradford has been awarded the 2025 Schlesinger Fellowship to support his doctoral project on geopolitical drivers and impacts of the weaponization of food in Syria.
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Purchasing decisions were central to the planning of the new Meltzer Center. Earlier this year, AU broke ground on the center, which will be the first net-zero university building in the region. Rendering courtesy Perkins Eastman /Rust Orling Architects.

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New Research Project Launched at AU Aims to Further Improve Sustainability

A new research project underway at American University aims to find ways that AU’s employees can make greener choices in purchasing.
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Malini Ranganathan's Corruption Plots Wins CUAA Anthony Leeds Book Prize

The Critical Urban Anthropology Association has awarded Corruption Plots its 2024 Anthony Leeds Book Award.
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What is Responsible Carbon Removal, and Why Does it Matter?

Sara Nawaz and the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal are leading the growing sector in mapping how carbon removal can be done justly, sustainably, and equitably.
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Douaa Sheet Receives Hunt Fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundation

The Hunt Fellowship will support Douaa Sheet in writing her book Incomplete Transitions: Dignity, Truth and Reconciliation in Tunisia.
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Tamar Gutner, Conceptualizing and evaluating how international organizations collaborate

Tamar Gutner's new co-authored article in World Development introduces a research project on ways of conceptualizing, analyzing, and evaluating how IOs partner and collaborate with each other.
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