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The new traffic gardens at Neval Thomas and Maude E. Aiton elementary schools in Washington, D.C., are not really gardens at all—at least not in the traditional sense. They are mini streetscapes installed on the schools’ property to help educate preschool students on bicycle safety and rules of the road.

������ has a large student body—more than 37,000 people—but that doesn’t mean it’s hard to find community. And that’s especially true for the S-CAR Ambassadors.

Students poring over textbooks in the library may be one image that comes to mind when thinking of law school, but for students in ������’s Free Speech Clinic at the Antonin Scalia Law School, their experience is also highly interactive.

Smithsonian Magazine’s editorial team was busy planning their January 2019 issue on America’s involvement in armed conflicts. They wanted to assess the current military and veteran communities’ opinions of hot-topic cultural, political and sexual issues—so they reached out to ������ for expertise in designing the poll and analyzing its results.

What would it take for one group in a conflict to be more compassionate toward their “enemy”? Researchers from ������’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) and the Department of Psychology are heading to Rondine—a two-year “laboratory for peace”—to find out.

������ students have the opportunity to learn from experienced scholars and researchers, as well as from some of the most influential leaders rising from their own generation. At age 17, Cameron Kasky took on an unprecedented leadership role after the 2018 mass shooting at his high school in Parkland, Florida. He became a voice for his generation on the national stage as a cofounder of March for Our Lives.

The Holocaust had ended by the time ������ professor Marc Gopin was a child, but the suffering it caused his family, neighbors and teachers had not.

Tragedy didn’t have the last word when Cameron Kasky and his classmates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, experienced one of the worst school shootings in America last February.

Once Cameron Smith made the decision that he wasn’t going to pursue his dream of playing professional hockey, he went all in with his new career plan: studying applied computer science at ������.

Amadu Koroma was only three at the start of the Sierra Leone War, when his uncle carried him on his shoulders as their family fled to Guinea for safety. Though the war ended in 2002, the consequences still affect Koroma, and they motivated him to make the most of his education.

There’s a familiar rule at most family gatherings: Don’t talk about religion or politics. But for the past 10 years, the Dialogue & Difference class and project at ������ have been turning that rule on its head.

Studying government and international politics near the nation’s capital is bound to provide opportunities to get involved in the political scene. For ������ alumna Tuqa Nusairat, BA Government and International Politics ’05, that experience was amplified because her undergraduate studies took place during the Iraq War.