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10.22.2026
Sustainability Beyond the Environment in Washington,
D.C.
An internship through the DC Flyers program helped an entrepreneurship and sustainability major discover a passion for agriculture-based development.
10.22.2026
Who's Publishing What: Losing
Brian
Beckie A. Miller's book, Losing Brian: Finding a New Me, is a testament to resilience.
10.22.2026
Her
Boyfriend
Life takes plenty from us as the years pass: people we love, our health, some independence and a little hair. In my case, considerably more than a little. But perhaps we shouldn’t surrender the possibility that something wonderful might still happen.
10.22.2026
Need Experience in Stand Up? Volunteer as a Tour
Guide
When I first started teaching, I thought that was the best on-the-job training for my stand-up comedy. At the end of the school year, a whole new batch of students came along who had never heard my routine.
10.21.2026
Supporting the Dreams of
Writers
Through a crowdfunding campaign, the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop is growing the endowment for the DC Stanfa Memorial Writers' Award, which will allow more writers with financial need the opportunity to attend the popular workshop.
10.16.2026
Interning with the Environmental Protection
Agency
An sustainability major's internship allowed her to apply environmental and sustainability principles learned in the classroom to real-world projects with tangible impacts.
10.13.2026
Pre-medicine students explore maternal and mental health in
Kenya
Six students spent 10 weeks in Kenya this summer to conduct individual research projects based on community-identified needs.
10.13.2026
Happy
Hunting
Now that temperatures in East Texas have dipped below the mid-hundreds and there's a slight crispness in the air — and not just in the earthworms seared to my driveway — the thoughts of outdoor enthusiasts all over the region have turned to deer hunting.
10.12.2026
Connecting Human Rights, Climate and Community in The
Gambia
A student's internship at the National Human Rights Commission in The Gambia highlighted the overlap between climate and environmental rights.
10.9.2026
All-in-One, Sold
Separately
I put more things in my hair than I have hair on my head. Okay, I’m exaggerating. But all I want is to look like I just stepped out of a salon without actually going to one or spending the time and money.