July 2018

July 2018 Cover

Meet the trailblazers who founded AU’s first black student union, sink your teeth into a Bitcoin primer, hop on the Metro to Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan, and get to know a few of AU’s Houstonians. Also in the July issue: the State Department’s most dangerous civil servant and a cyclist’s tools of the trade.

4400 Mass Ave

We Are Family

This Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars cohort is closer than most

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Faster Than Fear

Runner Brianna Belo consistently beat her toughest foe—herself

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Hoop Dreams

Lifelong minor leaguer captivates the NBA

Rubbing Elbows

Broadcast News

There's a chance this SOC alum dispatched that AP headline straight to your smartphone

Perspectives

This I Know: Nature

Hiking the Appalachian Trail, exposing city kids to the great outdoors, protecting public lands, grappling with the end of nature

Giving

DC Thinkers and Doers

AU must be a part of, not apart from, Washington's people and neighborhoods