June 11, 2018 Ramadan Nights: Community Culture Hub at AUC AUC’s Ramadan Nights last Friday made it clear that although Ramadan is winding down, AUC’s future as a community culture hub is just beginning.
In the Field: Students Explore Career Possibilities through Job Shadowing Program After participating in job shadowing sessions organized by the Career Center, students Omar El-Maria and Dina Salem walked away motivated by new interests and more confident about their career paths.
June 4, 2018 Tobacco Use at AUC Survey Results One of the most astonishing results of the AUC Tobacco Use Survey is a paradox in responses, said Jaime Mendoza, associate professor of practice in the Department of Psychology, and Mervat Abou Oaf, professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.
July 22, 2018 AUC's Centennial Logo: And the Winner Is... The results of AUC’s 100-Year Logo Competition are in. The logo designed by Raghda Barakat, graphic designer and video editor in Engineering and Science Services, will be the face of AUC’s centennial celebration. Winning Logo
May 29, 2018 Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline: Mapping Community Voices With summer in sight, Amber Murrey-Ndewa, postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Core Curriculum affiliated with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Egyptology, is gearing up to travel to Cameroon to continue work on a six-year long ethnographic project.
May 27, 2018 A Passion for the Field: Student Pursues Love of American Football In September 2016, Alia Haytham, mass communications major, and her friends walked past a booth on Bartlett Plaza promoting try-outs for the AUC women’s American football team. When a male friend suggested that American football wasn’t “a girl’s sport,” Haytham immediately felt fired up.
July 22, 2018 'One-Person Show': Integrating Art and Performance in Teaching “Teaching is like a one-person show,” said Jillian Campana, professor of theatre in the Department of Arts, likening the students to an audience, and a lesson plan to a script.
May 14, 2018 For the Love of CASA: AUC's Benefit Dinner Surpasses $600,000 For the seventh year, AUC hosted its annual Benefit Dinner in New York, raising more than $600,000 to go toward the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Endowment Fund.
Keeping the Tradition Alive: Community Service Clubs Invite All to Join Ramadan Spirit From expanding distribution across Cairo and different parts of the country and partnering with the community to catering to medical and educational needs and paying off debt, AUC's community service clubs are as active as ever this Ramadan.
May 14, 2018 A Taste of Teaching: Educational Psychology Students Mentor Community Youth Learning about teaching may seem simple at times. But actually applying what you learn in the classroom is another game entirely.
July 21, 2018 Campus Community Braces for Storm Together New Cairo bore the brunt of the heavy rains that hit Cairo just over a week ago. The storm caused severe flooding of both streets and buildings, including AUC, leading to power outages, major traffic jams and damage to infrastructure.
IMF: Time for Egypt to Keep Pedaling, for Everyone to be Like Mo Salah “I think it’s time for everyone to be like Mo Salah,” David Lipton, first deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), referring to the "Egyptian King" on everybody’s minds.
July 22, 2018 Community Psychology Interventions Can Help Bring Diabetes Under Control It is estimated that 17 percent of all Egyptian adults have diabetes, according to the 2017 statistics by the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office.
Designing with a Purpose: Architecture Students Propose Acoustic Solutions for AUC Library The AUC Library is filled with pages of information, nooks to work in, and a number of gadgets and resources to help students and faculty in their research and other tasks.
April 30, 2018 Students Experience the Real World of L’Oreal: Because It’s Worth It “It’s a link between the two worlds,” said Nahed Azab, adjunct faculty at the Department of Management about her students recently having an opportunity to train with one of the world's leading personal care companies, L’Oreal, as part of the course Entrepreneurial IT and Electronic Business.