At first glance, not much seems to differentiate Shady Grove from othercommuter stations. Like most end-of-the-line stops, it is a little island in a sea of parked cars.
Every American University student knows of the Davenport Coffee Lounge, called the Dav for short, tucked in the corner of the School of International Service.
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.
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.
