May 19, 2016 Dorm Residents Live Like a Local During this year’s spring break, ten dorm residents and two staff members participated in the Office of Residential Life Cross-Cultural Exchange Program with Ibn Tofail University in Morocco.
May 19, 2016 Alumna Nada Nafeh: Informal Housing Showcase at Architecture Biennale in Venice Through her architecture project on informal housing communities in Egypt, Nada Nafeh ’11 is taking part in the Egyptian pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the world’s largest architectural exhibition, which begins this week.
Mechanical Engineering Students Go Green for Egypt Investigating biofuels as a sustainable source of green energy in Egypt, five mechanical engineering students earned second place in the Go Green Egypt Expo national competition for conducting the first comprehensive study of biofuels in Egypt.
May 17, 2016 Amy Austin Holmes: Why Does the United States Still Have Military Bases Abroad? While Amy Austin Holmes, associate professor and head of the Sociology Unit, was doing her master’s degree at the Free University of Berlin, the student dormitory where she lived was different from the rest of the campus in one unique way — it used to be the home to hundreds of U.S.
May 16, 2016 Heterotopias: Space is Power in Urban Egypt Cairo is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. With 46,349 people per kilometer square, the city’s residents live in close-quarters, and the clash of social classes is unavoidable. The
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
