Many of today’s leaders have the inclination to enforce moral obligation. Not all fighters are leaders and not all leaders are fighters, but occasionally someone comes along who happens to be both.

At American University, that someone is Carlos Mark Vera.

Vera and his family migrated to Los Angeles in 1998 after fleeing the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Unlike most college juniors, Caylee Watson is not busy looking for an internship this semester.

With a thick Italian accent and eyes smiling behind his wiry glasses, Camillo Damiano takes a seat in the back room of his Tenleytown barber shop.

You wouldn’t expect entrepreneur Laurie Collins to be an Instagram celebrity if you asked her about her day job.

Collins works at LC Systems, an IT consulting company with high-profile clients including the United States Senate and the Smithsonian Institution.  But her second identity is @dccitygirl, an Instagram photographer with over 32,500 followers. 

“About three years ago we started a group of people who created IGDC,” Collins said of the District’s official Instagram.

More than a century after Albert Einstein theorized the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the air generated by large movements of matter—science has achieved what he thought would never be possible: detecting and measuring these waves.

Kyle Dargan is a published poet, an associate professor of literature and creative writing and the director of the creative writing program at American University.

Gospel music echoes from a street stage. Smells of barbecue waft through the air. People raise their hands in praise, dance and cheer in response.

As the effects of climate change grow more pronounced, its threat to food production grows as well.

As the sun set behind the McKinley building, students, professors and various visitors file into the New Media Center.