Media Releases and Statements
December 2014
AUC Professor Examines Water Distribution and Land Grabbing along the Nile
December 22, 2014, Cairo – Jasmine Moussa, assistant professor of law at The American University in Cairo (AUC), has been examining the politics of the Nile.
AUC’s School Of Continuing Education Celebrates 90th Anniversary
December 17, 2014, Cairo – The School of Continuing Education (SCE) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) has celebrated its 90th anniversary year of adult education in a broad range of areas.
AUC Chemistry Students Design Nanorods for Solar Energy Conversion
December 14, 2014, Cairo – Working as part of a research team at The American University in Cairo (AUC), chemistry junior Dina Eissa is using nanotechnology in the form of zinc oxide nanorods to produce a clean, sustainable and cheap method of harnessing solar energy as a way of confronting the loom
AUC Press Awards Hammour Ziada the 2014 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
December 11, 2014, Cairo – At a ceremony held tonight at The American University in Cairo (AUC) Tahrir Square campus, the AUC Press awarded the 2014 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada for his novel Shawq al-darwish (The Longing of the Dervish).
AUC Announces the Winning Team Qualifying to $1 Million Hult Student Competition
December 8, 2014, Cairo – The American University in Cairo (AUC) announced the winner of the on-campus competition held on Saturday to qualify a team of AUC students to participate in the Hult Prize competition, the world’s largest student crowd-sourcing platform for social good.
AUC Professor Investigates A New Way To Make Aluminum Stronger Using Carbon Nanotubes
December 4, 2014, Cairo – Amal Esawi, a mechanical engineering professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC), is investigating a new way to make aluminum strong, but still lightweight through the application of carbon nanotubes.
AUC Venture Lab Announces Third Incubator Cycle
December 1, 2014, Cairo – AUC Venture Lab (V-Lab) at The American University in Cairo’s School of Business has announced ten new startups incubated in V-Lab’s third cycle.
November 2014
Cairo University Graduate is The First Recipient of AUC Mostafa El Baradei Law Fellowship
November 26, 2014, Cairo – Cairo University Law School graduate Farida Ibraheem, has become the first recipient of the Mostafa El Baradei Fellowship in International and Comparative Law (LLM), The American University in Cairo (AUC).
AUC Social Research Center Releases Latest Findings on Harassment
November 24, 2014, Cairo – A baseline study conducted by the Social Research Center (SRC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in three urban low-income neighborhoods in Egypt revealed that at least 80 percent of the women reported verbal harassment –– including winks, whistles and inappropriat