February 10, 2014 Student Clubs Showcase Projects, Upcoming Events at Activities Fair From the newly established Heya to the 25-year-old Cairo International Model United Nations, almost 30 student clubs are taking part in the bi-annual Activities Fair this week.
February 10, 2014 Reviving Arabic Script Helps Create New Arab Visual Identity Reviving calligraphy and shaping the future of script through her students, Bahia Shehab, Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of the Arts, works on the first ever encyclopedia of the Arabic script.
February 10, 2014 Community Day, March 4: Cheer On Your Team in School Face-Off Organized by the First-Year Experience program, the School Face-Off portion ofCommunity Daywill have teams composed of faculty, staff, students, alumni and employees from each academic school competing in relay races and competitions. The winning team will be announced at the end of the day.
February 9, 2014 AUC Places in Top Third Worldwide of GreenMetric Ranking In recognition of continued efforts to improve energy efficiency and implement sustainability on campus, AUC has been ranked 101 overall out of 301 universities in the University of Indonesia’s fourth annual GreenMetric World University Ranking.
February 6, 2014 Community Day, March 4: Win Prizes by Visiting Stops Around AUC Organized by the AUC Student Ambassadors, the Around AUC portion ofCommunity Day will allow you to visit stops around campus to participate in an activity that helps you learn more about AUC's academic programs and collect raffle tickets.
February 5, 2014 Student Spotlight: AUC Ambassador Meets Diplomats, State Leaders Nouran Ghannam, a political science senior, joined the AUC Student Ambassador program two years ago, during which she developed a passion for the program, as well as the political science field and development work.
February 4, 2014 AUC Forum Panel on Constitutional Future on Campus Tomorrow In AUC Forum’s first panel discussion this semester, Nathan Brown, professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University, senior scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and president of the Middle East Studies Association, will speak on “Eg
February 4, 2014 First AUC Community Day Today; Take Part in Activities Around Campus From student organizations and academic schools to alumni sponsors and administrative offices, more than a dozen campus groups have worked together to bring to life AUC's first Community Day.
February 6, 2014 New Personalized Drugs Hold Promise for Cancer Treatment Chemotherapy drugs, which are frequently administered as part of cancer treatment to either kill the tumor or keep it from growing larger while making the patient more comfortable, are often associated with crippling side effects and high costs.
Salah Arafa Implements Sustainable Development Model in Sharqiya Recently selected as the scientific adviser to the Sharqiya governorate, Salah Arafa, professor of physics, is focused on transferring technology to induce real development in rural areas, not by enforcing change from the outside, but by involving the members of the community every step of the wa
Alexandria University Professor Donates Rare Cacti to AUC AUC has recently received a rare collection of more than 1,000 cactus plants of different sizes and types from Saad El Din Al Rakshy, professor of dairy microbiology at Alexandria University.
February 2, 2014 Low Egypt Rankings Due to Frail Economy, Poor Administrative System Out of 148 countries surveyed in the 2013 – 2014 Global Competitiveness Report, Egypt ranked 118 in terms of global competitiveness, lagging behind other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, and ranked last in terms of the quality of primary education.
February 5, 2014 EduCamp Project Integrates Sustainability in Egyptian Public Schools Ending a three-year pilot project to introduce sustainability concepts in Egyptian public schools, AUC’s Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), in cooperation with the Education for Sustainable Development Beyond the Campus (EduCamp) consortium, handed over Education for Sustainable Developmen