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March 2014

AUC Journalism Students Win Top Prizes in International Media Competition

March 19, 2014, Cairo – Nancy Salem and Nazly Abaza, both multimedia journalism seniors at The American University in Cairo (AUC) recently won top awards at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts, which received more than 1,350 entries from 150 colleges and universities for

AUC Launches Swimming Academy for Children and Adults

March 17, 2014, Cairo – The American University in Cairo (AUC) has launched a Swimming Academy for Children and Adults, in the first of what might become a successive line of University-based sports academies.

AUC Students Awarded for New 3D System

March 12, 2014, Cairo, Egypt – A group of computer science students at The American University in Cairo (AUC) created an innovative open-source platform to meet developers’ needs.

AUC Holds its First Ever Community Day

March 5, 2014, Cairo – The American University in Cairo (AUC) held its first Community Day yesterday on the New Cairo Campus, bringing together students, faculty, staff and alumni for a single campus event for the spring semester.

AUC Alumni and Coaches Train Street Children Soccer Team

March 2, 2014, Cairo – Alumni and University sports coaches at The American University in Cairo (AUC) have been training a team of Egyptian street children to practice football twice a week at AUC’s Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor Football and Track Stadium.

February 2014

AUC Team Uses Solar Energy to Develop Self-Powered Wireless Networks

February 26, 2014, Cairo – Professor Yehea Ismail, director of the Center for Nanoelectronics and Devices at The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Zewail City of Science and Technology is leading a team to develop a chip that would harvest solar energy in order to power wireless sensor netw

AUC Places in Top Third Worldwide Greenmetric Ranking

February 24, 2014, Cairo – The American University in Cairo (AUC) has been ranked 101 overall out of 301 universities in the University of Indonesia’s fourth annual GreenMetric World University Ranking.

Top Brazilian Diplomat in The Cairo Review of Global Affairs: U.S.-Iran Thaw Is Middle East "Game Changer"

February 20, 2014, Cairo –Brazil’s top diplomat at the United Nations says that the recent thaw in relations between the United States and Iran could be a “game changer” in the Middle East.

AUC Officially Launches The First University Incubator in Egypt " AUC Venture Lab (V-Lab)"

February 19, 2014, Cairo, Egypt– The American University in Cairo (AUC) announced today, in a press conference held on Tahrir Square campus, the official launch of the first University-based incubator in Egypt, the AUC Venture Lab (V-Lab).