Achievements · August 11

Bound for Berlin: Two Recent Grads Land Prestigious Appointments

Selected from a national pool of applicants, Jocelyn Parker, SIS/BA ’26, and Griffin Cook, SPA-SIS/BA ’26, are among just 65 Americans named to the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals program.
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Professional News · August 11

AU in the News: Week of August 7

Your weekly roundup of faculty expertise, student achievements, leadership perspectives, and top campus initiatives.
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Achievements · August 5

Tom Kahn Named Director of AU SPA’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies

Longtime Capitol Hill budget leader to guide CCPS following a successful year as Acting Director
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Criminology · July 8

Mixed Signals, Mixed Outcomes: How Offense, Record and Flight Risk Shape Pretrial Choices

Mixed Signals, Mixed Outcomes: How Offense, Record and Flight Risk Shape Pretrial Choices
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Policy Analysis · July 7

The Future of Public Administration under Political Dysfunction

SPA Policy Brief: SPA Professor Ken Meier provides practical steps for policymakers and agency leaders looking to minimize systemic fallout.
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Health Policy & Management · June 23

Prenatal Industrial Pollution and Lifelong Economic Harm

SPA Policy Brief: new research by SPA Professor Claudia Persico explores the risks of prenatal industrial pollution.
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Political Science · June 23

Blood at the Ballot Box

SPA professor links post-Reconstruction electoral shocks to spikes in lynching across the Deep South.
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Announcement · May 22

Alison Jacknowitz Named Dean of AU’s Top-Ranked School of Public Affairs

The interim leader and long-serving public administration and policy professor will step into the permanent role on June 1.
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Alumni · May 20

AU Honors 2026 Alumni Award Recipients

The AU Alumni Association's highest honors go to four remarkable Eagles.
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