October 3, 2017 Robotix Club Wins First Place in World Robot Olympiad Robotix club members built a robot to tackle one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, scoring first place in the local round of the World Robot Olympiad (WRO).
October 2, 2017 Watch Video: AUC Takes Lead in Promoting Blended Learning in Egypt Egypt’s Minister of Education and Technical Education Tarek Shawki; Vijay Kumar, associate dean of digital learning and executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab at MIT; Maysa Jalbout, CEO of AGFE; and AUC Provost Ehab Abdel-Rahman were featured in the Yahduth fi M
October 1, 2017 AUC, UNESCO Partner to Make Education, Technology Accessible for People with Disabilities Dressed in smart casual attire and settled in their seats in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, people began to adjust the volume on their translation headsets, flip through programs written in Braille and turn their heads toward a sign language interpreter at the front of the r
October 1, 2017 Scholarships Bring Exceptional Student Talent to Campus Ali Mohamed Ghazal, a computer engineering freshman and an Al Ghurair STEM Scholar, wants to “re-imagine the Arab community” using artificial intelligence and electronics. His mentors in the field of entrepreneurship include Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, people who fundamentally changed mod
October 1, 2017 Redefining Education in Egypt: AUC Pioneers Blended, Online Learning In collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE), AUC, along with the American University of Beirut (AUB), is taking the lead in promoting online and blended learning across the region.
February 1, 2017 Alumna, PhD Student Designs Nanotechnology to Tackle Egypt's Water Crisis Nouran El Badawi ’06, '13, AUC alumna and a Yousef Jameel PhD fellow studying applied sciences with a specialization in chemistry, is committed to her research at AUC, exploring the application of membrane technology as a means to retrieve fresh water.
September 28, 2017 Alumnus Develops Mobile App to Help the Visually Impaired Abdel Ghani Barakat ‘13, Leadership for Education and Development (LEAD) scholar and AUC graduate who double majored political science and communication and media arts, developed the concept for an innovative and impactful mobile application for visually impaired individuals, dubbed E3rafli.
AUC Installs New Cairo Street Signs In Collaboration with Municipality In an effort to ease the day-to-day lives and operations of both AUC and neighboring communities, the University has successfully collaborated with the municipality in the recent installation of several street signs surrounding the New Cairo campus.
New Faculty Find 'Landscape of Possibilities' at AUC As AUC grows, so does the number of new faculty finding their way to its campus from all over the map.
September 25, 2017 AUC Only College Outside North America in Princeton Review’s Green Guide for Third Consecutive Year For the third year in a row, AUC is the only higher education institution outside of North America to be featured in The Princeton Review’s 2017 Guide to Green Colleges.
Computer Science and Engineering Program Maintains Distinguished ABET Accreditation For the fourth consecutive time, AUC’s computer science and engineering (CSE) program was reaccredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The program was praised for the quality of its curriculum, student creativity and completion of projects, flourishing
September 15, 2017 New VP for Digital Innovation: ‘I Look at AUC as a Changemaker in the Business Community’ As AUC embarks on an ambitious strategy to digitally transform the University experience, Hanan Abdel Meguid ’93, AUC’s new vice president for digital innovation, will spearhead its strategy.
September 20, 2017 Meet AUC's Newest Trustees Gretchen Welch, a former diplomat, and Richard A. Drucker, a partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, are the newest members of AUC’s Board of Trustees.
September 19, 2017 Honoring Pandeli Glavanis: “A Life of Love and Service” At an AUC memorial held yesterday in honor of the late Pandeli Glavanis, professor of practice, director of Academic Community Engagement (ACE) and associate director of Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT), President Francis J.
September 17, 2017 Student Union Uses Commencement Ticket Sales for New Scholarship Fund Last spring, the University sold extra commencement tickets, directing the money collected to a new Student Union Scholarship Fund to be granted to two students each semester. Approximately 100 leftover tickets were sold, raising a total of LE 43,500.
