Media Releases and Statements
October 2015
AUC's Green Campus: Global Exemplar of Sustainability in UN Universities Toolkit
Sustainable campus practices at The American University in Cairo(AUC) have been featured in the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Green Universities Toolkit as a global example of a green, low-carbon institution.
Alumna Rana El Kaliouby, AUC’s Newest and Youngest Trustee
Rana el Kaliouby ’98, ’00, chief strategy and science officer of Affectiva, a spinoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, has been named to the Board of Trustees of The American University in Cairo (AUC).
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf to Cairo Review: Islamic State’s Caliphate is “Completely Bogus”
Leading Islamic scholar Sheikh Hamza Yusuf says in an interview with the Cairo Review of Global Affairs published today that the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group in 2014 is “completely bogus” because it fails to meet the criteria set down by hadith guiding Islamic jurisprudence.
AUC Student Excels in the Annual Mathematical Association Of America (MAA) Mathfest Conference
Muhammad El Gebali, electronics engineering and mathematics senior at The American University in Cairo (AUC) was presented with the Outstanding Presentation Award for his research paper titled “The Combinatorial Interpretation of the LDU Decomposition of Totally Positive Matrices in the annual Mathe
September 2015
AUC’s Public Policy, Administration First in Region to Receive Global NASPAA Accreditation
The Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy at The American University in Cairo are the first two graduate programs in the Middle East and the third outside the United States to receive accreditation from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA
AUC Professors Analyze the Syrian Refugees’ Crisis at the Media Roundtable Discussion
The magnitude of the Syrian refugees crisis can’t be understood without considering the current domestic economic and political situation in the European Union, explained the professors of the American University in Cairo (AUC) in yesterday’s media roundtable discussion series "Behind the
AUC Introduces an Innovative Course on U.S. Copyright Laws, Copyrightx, Created at Harvard University
Students at The American University in Cairo (AUC) had the opportunity to interact and collaborate online with professors and peers from around the world through an innovative course on U.S. copyright laws, CopyrightX, that was created at Harvard University.
AUC Awards Three Faculty Members the Spring 2015 Faculty Merit Awards
The American University in Cairo (AUC) awarded three of its faculty members the Spring 2015 faculty merit awards, in honor of their efforts to enrich the student experience and to their service to the AUC community.
AUC Provost Sherif Sedky and Professor Nageh Allam Receive the 2014 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers
Sherif Sedky, provost of The American University in Cairo (AUC) and Nageh Allam, associate professor of physics at AUC, have received the 2014 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers. The award is given out each year to academics in six categories of scientific research.