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July 2015

AUC Team among Top Contributors at Canadian Engineering Conference

For the second consecutive year, The American University in Cairo (AUC) had a strong presence at the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Conference, where a team of seven undergraduate and graduate students, accompanied by two faculty members, presented 19 research papers.

AUC Forms a Committee to Lead International Search for a Successor to President Lisa Anderson

The Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo (AUC) announced today the formation of a Presidential Search Committee that will lead the international search for a successor to current AUC President Lisa Anderson.

AUC Fresh Graduate “Who Has Overcome the Most” despite his Disability, is a Source of Inspiration

Magdy Abdel Sayed ’15, the recipient of a Cambridge University prize (2008) as an Egyptian student who has “overcome the most” despite his disability, has graduated from The American University in Cairo (AUC) with a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication, as well as media arts.

AUC Students Give Back in Ramadan

Student organizations at The American University in Cairo (AUC) have heightened their activities this Ramadan, distributing food packages and daily hot meals to the needy, as well as holding iftars for orphans, street children and underprivileged families.

UN IFAD President to Cairo Review: Fighting Hunger Requires Urgent Support for Small Farmers

The president of the United Nations’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Kanayo F.

June 2015

AUC Libraries Sign Memorandum with Cealex to Digitize Historic French Language Newspapers from Egypt

The Libraries at The American University in Cairo (AUC) have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Centre d’Études Alexandrines (CEALex) to preserve historic French language newspapers from Egypt.

AUC Issues Third 2015 Carbon Footprint Report

For the third year in a row, The American University in Cairo (AUC) issued the carbon footprint report, which –– for the first time this year –– measures AUC New Cairo’s carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions over the span of three years, not just one: from academic year (AY) 2012 to AY 2014.

‘Women Of Karantina’ selected for the Fiction Longlist of the 2015 Ft/Oppenheimerfunds Emerging Voices Awards

​June 16, 2015, Cairo – Nael Eltoukhy’s novel Women of Karantina, translated by Robin Moger and published in 2014 by The American University in Cairo Press (AUC Press), has been selected for the fiction longlist of the 2015 FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards.

AUC Celebrates Spring 2015 Graduation Commencement and Awards Mostafa El-Sayed an Honorary PhD

 The American University in Cairo (AUC) held its Spring 2015 commencement ceremonies that witnessed the graduation of 540 bachelor’s degree candidates, of whom 90 graduated with honors, 105 with high honors and 91 with highest honors.