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Energy and water use on campus during winter 2023-24 closure

Environment ·

Winter Energy Curtailment Efforts Result in Significant Energy and Water Cost Savings

The measurements all have been collected and analyzed and the findings make apparent that American University’s annual Winter Energy Curtailment efforts were again an overwhelming success.
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Seventy-five percent of campus waste filters into large containers near AU’s Sports Center Annex.

Environment ·

Trace Your Waste

Leave fewer (environmental) footprints behind by following Facility Management’s trash-sorting guidelines.
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Digital photo of earth in space with satellite in back and with digital coding in background. The typography reads "Small Satellites and International Security".

Technology ·

Small Satellites and International Security

Computer model head on abstract diagram.

Science ·

AI Virtual Teaching Assistant “Sarah” Makes Her Debut at American University

Aref Zahed launches AI teaching assistant that can speak, write code, and answer questions using ChatGPT and Google technology
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A human man and robot, both using desktop computers, sit across from one another.

Technology ·

Grappling with Grammarly—and Generative AI

As AI gains popularity on college campuses, faculty and students find themselves wondering what responsible use looks like.
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Photo of digital circuit head with digital numbers in the background.

Technology ·

New Technology and Nuclear Risk

Julian Urrutia-Cater

Science ·

For Julian Urrutia-Carter, Grad School Leads to New Start, Biotech Career

Research Fellow at Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
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Zoomed in shot of a digital grid and a pair of eyes with binary code in background.

Technology ·

AI Without Borders

Outline of padlock fades into digital silhouette of face. Typography reads the digital revolution osints role in the digital age.

Technology ·

The Data Revolution: OSINT's Role in the Digital Age

Food spills out of a trash can. Photo from Getty.

Environment ·

Two Facts and a Fiction: Waste Not

CAS professorial lecturer and RECIPES fellow Kristine Beran on wasted food, which reaches a peak during the holiday season.
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