Environment ·
Facilities Management Marks ENERGY STAR Day with a Heating Plant Tour
Facilities Management partners with Office of Sustainability to show staff and faculty AU's energy-saving heating plant
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LatinX Environmentalisms
Two-day event promotes antiracist approaches to environmental work.
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Race Against the (Circadian) Clock
As the end of daylight saving time approaches, CAS professorial lecturer Brenda Chow discusses the impact of time changes on our health.
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Third Year of Inclusive Technology Policy Award: A Conversation with AU Vice Provost for Research and Innovation Diana Burley
On October 30, American University celebrated Zach Tudor as this year’s recipient of AU’s Outstanding Inclusive Technology Policy Changemaker Award. We talked to Diana Burley, AU Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, about the award and its impact.
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A Bright Idea: Reducing Energy Through Material Reuse
AU reduces waste by reusing materials from demolition during recent tunnel renovation.
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Taking the Temperature of Global Warming
SIS professor Dana Fisher and a team of researchers polled participants about climate change at the March to End Fossil Fuels.
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Is DC’s Anacostia River on the Rebound and Safe for Swimming?
Environmental science department chair and associate professor Karen Knee answers our question of the week
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Energy-saving LED lights come to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall
Renovations this summer brought energy-saving LED lights to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall
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Technology ·
Two Facts and a Fiction: Droning on about AI in the Military
SIS professor Trey Herr on the United States's Pentagon-sized investment in generative AI and what's next for the technology
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Hurricanes, Wildfires and Heat Waves: Is Extreme Weather Our New Normal?
Professor Stephen MacAvoy answers our question of the week
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