Cairotronica: Where Art, Technology Meet Focusing on electronic art exploration, the Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Symposium, also known as Cairotronica, highlights art beyond its traditional scope.
New AUC Venture Lab Partnerships Spark Innovation Only three years into its launch in 2013, the AUC Venture Lab, the first University-based incubator in Egypt, has completed five acceleration cycles, incubated 46 startups, generated LE 36 million in revenue, raised LE 23 million in investments and created 253 jobs in the market.
May 15, 2016 AUCians at TEDx With TEDxAUC held this past weekend under the theme, The Missing Link (finding the missing link in our lives) and with TEDxCairo 2016 on the horizon under the theme, PRISMA,
May 11, 2016 AUC Alumna Randa Shaath: Finding Home in Everyday Objects Indelible, The Photographic Gallery's current exhibition by Randa Shaath '85, explores a simple, but often overlooked question: When do you feel at home?
AUC’s Peer Mentors: Support for Student Success Adjusting to university life can be daunting. Offering students advice and counseling, peer mentors like Marwan Kamel aim to smooth the transition.
May 10, 2016 AUC Wins Outstanding Delegation Award for Seventh Consecutive Year at National Model United Nations in New York For the seventh year in a row, AUC students competing in the New York National Model United Nations conference earned the Outstanding Delegation Award.
May 9, 2016 Trump vs. Clinton: Who Will be the Next President of the United States? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the frontrunners in the Republican and Democratic races for the 2016 presidential nominations.
May 5, 2016 First Educational Leadership Graduate: Empowering Students Encourages Better Learning For Rasha Essam Hassan (MA ’10, MA ’16), pursuing her second master’s degree in educational leadership (EDUL) at AUC was a privilege, but becoming the first graduate of the program is a distinguished honor.
AUC, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation Partner to Support Scholarships for Arab Youth Creating opportunities for high-achieving Arab students who require financial support to pursue an undergraduate or graduate degree at the University, AUC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education, one of the largest privately funded
May 3, 2016 AUC, Cairo Governorate Collaborate on Sustainable Urban Development As part of the Neighborhood Initiative recently launched at AUC, Universities and their Neighborhoods: An AUC-AUB Conversation, which aimed at highlighting the responsibilities of universities to th
April 21, 2016 U.S. News & World Report: AUC Opens Broad Career Paths in Education Teaching isn't the only option for graduates of education degree programs in the Middle East and North Africa. A recent article in U.S.
April 21, 2016 AUC’s 22nd Annual Research Conference: Cultural Survival in Egypt in the 21st Century A University tradition for the past 22 years, the annual AUC Research Conference begins today.
April 19, 2016 Terrorism vs. Extremism: Are They Linked? With terrorist attacks in Brussels, Istanbul and, most recently, Kabul, as well as other parts of the world, Marco Pinfari, assistant professor of political science, examines the relationship between terrorism and extremism.1. What is extremism?
Stress Awareness Month: Tips to De-Stress April is Stress Awareness Month, and a good way to celebrate it is by reminding ourselves how we can live healthier lives. Although everyone deals with stress differently, understanding the causes of stress and how it affects the body and mind can make a difference in our overall well-being.
April 17, 2016 Undergraduate Research Conference Promotes Scholarly Work, Creativity, Talent Hoping to uncover the mystery behind ovarian cancer, biology student Aya El Serw is focusing her undergraduate thesis on “Molecular Analysis of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.” Studying ovarian cancer tissue samples from Egyptian women, examining genes and testing clinical data provided by h
