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Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni delivered the second annual Busboys and Poets Lecture: “Jimmy and Me—and Our Interconnected Future as Americans,” on April 23.

A team of �鶹��Ƶ researchers is probing the psychology behind cyberattacks as part of a U.S. intelligence community program aimed at turning the tables on hackers.

�鶹��Ƶ students taking Art History 495/595 Curating an Exhibition worked together to take an exhibit of South African art from conception to completion this spring.

When criminology, law and society major Ari Williams came to �鶹��Ƶ as a first-generation student and a member of the Honors College, she wanted to work in the federal government.

For this NEH project, �鶹��Ƶ professor Zachary Schrag is writing the history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project to help understand the possibilities of the ambitious efforts to reshape daily transportation choices.

�鶹��Ƶ professor Jennifer Leeman will spend the fall semester at the Universidad de Murcia in Spain, where she will lecture on topics in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as aid in the supervision of doctoral students.

�鶹��Ƶ President Gregory Washington has announced the recipients of the 2024 Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence, honoring 13 �鶹��Ƶ faculty members for their work on behalf of the university, students, and the broader community.

George �鶹��Ƶ researchers are using immersive virtual reality to examine ways in which high-stress conditions may influence law enforcement officer decision-making and utilization of equitable policing strategies.

Since 1989, more than 3,000 people have been exonerated after being wrongly convicted. In his new book, The Politics of Innocence: How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion (New York University Press, September 2023), Robert J. Norris, associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, and his coauthors explore the political dynamics that shape the innocence movement.

Klutsey, who is the founding director of Mercatus’ Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange, will start on June 1.