May 29, 2019 AUC's Board of Trustees Votes Unanimously to Renew President Ricciardone The American University in Cairo’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to renew President Francis Ricciardone for a second four-year term, effective July 1, 2020.
May 23, 2019 Centennial Benefit Dinner Photo Highlights AUC hosted its eighth annual Benefit Dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — one of the world's largest art museums, housing over 2 million works of art in
May 29, 2019 Alum Uses Philosophy Studies at AUC to Found Go Clean Initiative “Go clean is all about changing people's perspective on recycling so that their brains give them negative signs when they witness environmental hazards,” said Mohamed Hamdy ‘13, founder of Go Clean, a recycling solutions company aiming to increase p
March 12, 2019 The Big Move While AUC is celebrating its centennial, another important University birthday is happening this year — the 10-year anniversary of the New Cairo campus. For the full article, click here.
May 23, 2019 Centennial Benefit Dinner Exceeds $1 Million Target for Student Scholarships At its eighth annual Benefit Dinner, AUC raised more than $1.15 million for student scholarships — exceeding the University's $1 million target for Centennial Scholarships, which help top students attend AUC. This is part of AUC's $100 million Centennial Campaign, which has now reached 80 percent.
May 19, 2019 The Century Committee The earliest discussion of the need for a new campus, exclusively built for the purpose of higher education, began just two years after the University was founded in the city center in 1919.
March 12, 2019 Culturally Connected AUC signed an agreement with prominent businessman and investor Naguib Sawiris, chairman of Orascom Investment Holding, to support the establishment of AUC’s Tahrir Cultural Center (TCC) on its Tahrir Square campus.
March 12, 2019 Ewart Hall: A Contemporary Classic Ewart Memorial Hall has been a cultural hub of downtown Cairo since it opened its doors in 1928, serving as a gathering place for lovers of literature, cinema, music and all forms of arts and culture.
May 19, 2019 100 Years of Giving In 1925, an anonymous donor offered AUC a gift of $100,000 for the construction of a 1,150-seat auditorium. She requested that the auditorium be named after her grandfather William Dana Ewart, who had in the past visited Egypt for health reasons.
May 15, 2019 A Job Well-Done: Student Organizations Awarded for Yearlong Achievements At its end-of-year ceremony, AUC's Office of Student Life celebrated the yearlong achievements of student organizations, presenting awards to student representatives and faculty advisers.
May 14, 2019 New Scholarships, Increased Opportunity AUC is offering new scholarships for undergraduate Egyptian and international students applying for Fall 2019, including the Undergraduate Scholarship in Liberal Arts Education and the AUC Centennial Scholarship Fund. In addition, during
May 14, 2019 AUC Students Win Omnicom Group MENA Inter-University Challenge AUC students Nour El Tahawy, Nour Beshir, Yousef Nassar, Mai El-Ghamry and Nadine Riad won the Omnicom Group MENA Inter-University Challenge with a $10,000 prize, competing with students from other international universities to solve a real data analytics science problem.
May 12, 2019 The Kamal Adham Center Organizes Science Journalism Pre-Conference The Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism organized the pre-conference event "Science Journalism: The Professional Approach,"
May 9, 2019 Sherif Kamel Appointed as President of the Board of Governors of AmCham Egypt Sherif Kamel '88, '90, '13, founding dean of AUC School of Business won by acclamation the position of President of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt (AmCham Egypt) for the 2019-2021 term, starting June first.
May 9, 2019 Architecture Tsunami Exhibition Opens Architecture Tsunami exhibition, the first of a series of activities focused on Egypt’s contemporary architecture and urbanism, is part of NextARCH Lab, a new interactive resource center and engagement platform that empowers all stakeholders of the built environment to
