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SIS Professor Launches AI-Powered Disability Rights Dashboard at the United Nations

SIS Professor Derrick Cogburn is launching the CRPD Disability Rights Data Dashboard and mobile app at the UN’s 19th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
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SIS Grad Students Take Research Beyond the Classroom at the Inter-American Development Bank

SIS MA student Maria Ardila Rangel and PhD student Anushka Bose are part of a professional team led by SIS Research Professor Rachel Nadelman working on civil society engagement research for the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Lunch Plenary entitled "R1 in Practice: AU’s Distinctive Research Enterprise"

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Inaugural University-Wide AU Research Conference a Success

The AU Research Conference was held on May 11, 2026 and boasted over 120 attendees from across the university.
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Nina Yamanis Selected as Fulbright Scholar to Tanzania

Nina Yamanis has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2026-27 for her project "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania."
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Paul Williams, Building Durable Peace

Paul Williams' new edited volume reflects lessons from some of the most complex peace processes of the past three decades and explores how peace is negotiated, implemented and sustained.
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Students at the Mathias Conference

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“Just Go for It”: Advice from 2026 Mathias Conference Student Award Winners

Student winners share advice, lessons, and the unexpected benefits of presenting their work
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Professor Caty Borum

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Comedy and Entertainment as Forces for Positive Change

Featuring Caty Borum, Executive Director, Center for Media & Social Impact, and Full Tenured Professor at American University’s School of Communication.
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William Akoto and Trey Herr, Buried in the Ground: Finding the Cost of Cyber Economic Espionage

William Akoto and Trey Herr's new article in the Journal of Cyber Policy addresses the complex challenge of measuring the costs of cyber economic espionage.
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SIS students at NCUR 2026

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Six Students Represent SIS at 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research

Six SIS undergraduate researchers represented AU and SIS at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held April 13-15 in Richmond, VA.
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Skyline of Tehran, Iran

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Analysis: Iran has a Long History of Standing Firm Against Aggressors

SIS professor Amitav Acharya and Australian National University emertius professor Amin Saikal discuss Iran's long history of fending off foreign power intervention in this piece published by The Conversation.
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