AUC's 2021 Year-End Highlights
The past year was full of achievements and new discoveries at AUC. Here are our top ten favorite memories and moments from 2021.
1. For the first time in 18 months, AUC resumes full-time face-to-face instruction, welcoming back faculty, students and staff for Fall 2021 and boasting strict anti-COVID-19 measures and a 93% vaccination rate.
2. AUC faculty named among the top 2% of impactful scientists globally by Stanford-Elsevier’s Scopus for the second year in a row.
3. President Ahmad Dallal is sworn in as the University’s 13th president.
4. AUC launches its second spinoff company, Suitera, which aims to solve challenges in the electronics design automation industry.
5. #AUCSpeakUp:
- AUC is the first university in Egypt to implement mandatory sexual harassment training for all students, faculty and staff.
- The University holds “My Safe Uni Day” to raise awareness and combat sexual harassment in universities.
- AUC students, faculty and alumni produce and perform Msh Zanbek, a collection of plays exploring the topic of sexual harassment from different perspectives.
- AUC partners with the E7na Initiative for its second annual anti-sexual harassment summit, hosted this year at AUC Tahrir Square.
6. A team including Salima Ikram (YAB ‘86) announces that the mummy of an ancient nobleman, which was discovered by the group, may date back 1,000 years earlier than previously assumed, a fact that could alter mummification history.
7. Hesham Sallam discovers a 43 million-year-old fossil of a whale in Egypt that traces the transition of whales from land to sea creatures.
8. Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar’s AUC Press book, A History of Arab Graphic Design, wins the 2021 Prose Award.
9. Biology students at AUC develop a therapeutic model for treating, and possibly diagnosing, COVID-19.
10. AUC athletes shine in national and international competitions:
- AUC students, alumni represent Egypt in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
- Athlete Mohamed El-Shenary ranks 7th globally in the World Rowing Indoor Championships.
- Athletes take home medals in the first half of the National Universities Tournament.
Check out all of our 2021 stories here.
Here's to another year of success, health and happiness! Happy New Year!
