April 6, 2021 Tackling Today's Issues: Faculty Research Targets Pollution, COVID-19 Mohamed Swillam, chair and professor in the Department of Physics, was recently recognized as one of the top 2% most impactful scientists, being
March 31, 2021 Speaking Up and Saving Lives: How to Take Action When Witnessing Sexual Harassment We witnessed a bold act of bravery a few weeks ago when a woman stood up to a child harasser in Cairo's Maadi neighborhood, exposing his crimes to the world.
March 31, 2021 Unleash Your Voice Competition Winners In light of the movement to combat sexual harassment in the country and on university campuses, AUC's student-led Debate Society held the Unleash Your Voice competition on March 20, which brought together students to debate the question: who has a larger influence on combatting sexual h
March 30, 2021 AUC Spinoff Suitera Receives $230K Investments in Early Stages At the March 8 launch event of Suitera, AUC’s latest spinoff, the company received a $100 thousand investment from Walden Rhines, a leading figure in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) space.
April 13, 2021 Egypt Gives: AUC Student Hana Wali on a Mission to End Homelessness Statistics say that there are 12 million homeless Egyptians, including those living in slums (ashwa’eyat).
March 30, 2021 Graduate Student Carries Out Region's First Large-Scale Experimental Program for Smart Construction Solutions Motivated by Egypt’s recent developmental projects at different locations, including the Grand Egyptian Museum, the New Administrative Capital and the Alamein City, among others, Jasmin Abdelhalim, construction engineering graduate student, took on a mission to explore whether t
March 28, 2021 AUC Holds Media Roundtable on the Launch of Spring 2021 Concert Series, Music Program’s Latest Initiatives On Monday, AUC held a virtual media roundtable discussion on the launch of the “Spring 2021 Concert Series” and the latest initiatives of the Department of the Art’s Music Program. Speakers at the media roundtable were Chelsea Green, associate professor an
March 24, 2021 UCCD 2021 Virtual Career Platform Kicks Off, in Cooperation With AUC and USAID In cooperation with AUC and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Virtual Career Platform for the University Centers of Career Development Project (UCCD) 2021 was launched yesterday. The opening ceremony of the UCCD 2021
March 16, 2021 Shifting Spaces As AUC plans for the second phase of its New Cairo campus construction, we examine faculty predictions on how physical space and architecture will change.
March 16, 2021 Class Connections Face-to-face classes are about to look really different, as told by AUC faculty, Jillian Campana, theatre professor and associate dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
March 16, 2021 Is this Normal? As we learn to adapt, life as we know it has become a thing of the past.A year into the pandemic, we’re looking forward to the day when we finally say, “It’s over.”
March 17, 2021 Unleash Your Voice: Q&A with Youssef Hashem AUC’s Debate Society, a student-led organization, is holding one of its biggest events yet – discussing the influence of state and society on sexual harassment.
March 10, 2021 Dean Sherif Kamel Appointed Trustee, Board Member of International Business Bodies School of Business Dean Sherif Kamel was recently appointed as a trustee of the International Management Board of the Association of MBAs and the Business Graduates Association as well as elected as a board member of AACSB International as an "AACSB official representative of an organiz
March 10, 2021 Alumnus Mark Turnage Elected New Board Chair Mark Turnage (ALU ’82), CEO of DarkOwl, was elected chair of AUC’s Board of Trustees, succeeding Richard Bartlett, three-time chair of the Board and first chair emeritus at the University.