April 21
AUC Research and Creativity Convention is a collective event that brings together diverse research, design, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity activities that have demonstrated growth and success over the years.
A Changing World Vision: Scholarship Student Seeks to Make Impact
Fady Shokry, economics student from Minya, has had the chance to explore how he can contribute to his society and tackle obstacles to financial inclusion thanks to an Orascom Construction Limited (OCL)-AUC Undergraduate Scholarship that brought him to AUC.
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Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub: Science, Creativity Go Hand in Hand
For Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, science and creativity go hand in hand. In fact, creativity fosters science and vice versa. “Science and medicine offer unprecedented opportunities for discovery and, most importantly, alleviating human suffering, … and creativity and innovation … [are] essential for...
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Islamic Architecture at AUC: 'Harmonizing Cultural Heritage with Modernity'
Professor Bernard O'Kane talks about the significance of studying Cairo's one-of-a-kind legacy in Islamic architecture, while working toward designing for the future.
Scholarships Changing Lives
With the support of Fellowships for Refugees, Randa Bashlah, a current master's student and Syrian refugee, has had the opportunity to pursue studies at AUC in the hopes of developing the academic background necessary to help her community in the future.
AUC is the first University in the Middle East to graduate its students with a cocurricular transcript.
- More than 300 community-based learning classes have been offered at AUC since 2008
- Launched from the classroom, students apply academic theories and innovative thinking in co-developmental, hands-on service with local, Egyptian, and international communities
- Students reflect on the changes within themselves, within the partners they’ve worked with, and within the community at large to assess the impact of civic engagement and responsibility on self, others, and the world
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AUC's Model United Nations, Model Arab League Break Records at International Conferences
AUC's Cairo International Model United Nations (CIMUN) and Cairo International Model Arab League (CIMAL) broke records this year at their international conferences, taking home more awards than AUC teams have ever won before. Cairo International Model Arab League AUC's Cairo International Model...
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Why Do People Smoke? Faculty Insight from Research on Arab-Americans
Mona Amer, chair of the Department of Psychology, discusses research about Arab American smoking habits as it relates to AUC's new policy.
Study Abroad: Experiencing Cairo Through AUC
Dean of Students George Marquis SAB '81, MA '87 Associate Vice President for Advancement Kim Jackson '84 and Olivia Smith, current study-abroad student from Bard College, recount their unique and life-changing experiences studying abroad at AUC and experiencing Cairo.
Lubna S. Olayan at AUC: “A Vision for the Rising Arab Generation”
Lubna S. Olayan, CEO and deputy chairman of Olayan Financing Company, visited AUC as the speaker for this year’s Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture and shared her vision for the rising Arab generation.
I am truly honored to be one of the 2017-2018 Professors for the Future, [a fellowship program] offered by the graduate studies department at the University of California, Davis. I am blessed and will forever be grateful for my years at AUC and how they inspired me to always work hard, believe and achieve.
Reem Al Olaby
MSc ’10, PhD ’14
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AUC's School of Business is number ONE business school in Africa by Eduniversal.
April 28
A performance of Cendrillon will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York at AUC!
The performance is in French with English subtitles.
- Time: 6:30- 9:55 pm
- Doors open: 5:30 pm
- Sung in: French with English Subtitles
- Music by: Jules Massenet
- Libretto by: Henri Cain
- Conducted by: Bertrand de Billy
Pursuing a Passion for Physics
Yumna Moussa, a physics major originally from Assuit, didn't give up on her dream of studying physics at AUC. Although she was initially unable to afford her studies at the University, she kept her eye out for scholarships and was soon awarded the Joseph Van Vleck Endowed Scholarship to pursue her passion at AUC.
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AUC Hosts Harvard MBA Students for Panel on Entrepreneurship in Egypt
“I, for one, will be keeping an eye on what’s happening in Egypt and how the economy is progressing as I go on with my career. I will stop and think about investing in a promising venture in Cairo or the Industrial Zone by the Red Sea when I have the means.” Shokouh Shafiei, an MBA candidate at...
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AUC First University in Egypt to Offer FinTech Program
AUC recently signed a memorandum of agreement with Luqman Weise Capital to establish the Luqman Weise FinTech Fellowships Fund . The program will begin admitting students in Spring 2018, offering 14 fellowships for Egyptian students to attend AUC in pursuit of a Master of Science in finance...
Nurturing Student Talent
Nouran Gohar, recipient of the Wadi Degla Endowed Scholarship for Student Athletes and construction engineering student, discusses why she chose AUC because of its value of and support for student talent as well as the University's balance between challenging academics and a fruitful student experience outside of the classroom.
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