June 16, 2019 "Creating Lively Communities" Winners AUC architecture students recently participated in the sponsored studio "Creating Lively Communities," where they presented urban design proposals to a jury for a site owned by NAMAA Real Estate.
July 9, 2019 Building a Planet on Earth For Mohamed Zaghoo ‘08, his first introduction to science as a child was when he got his hands on an Arabic copy of the magazine, Scientific American. It was a special edition about the famed Cassini–Huygens space mission, an international collaboration to send a probe to study the planet Saturn.
June 19, 2019 CASA Alum Seth McCombie: "I Feel Privileged to Have Studied Here' For more than five decades, AUC's Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) has served as the world's premier full-immersion Arabic language learning program, having trained more than 1,500 upper-level undergraduates, graduates and professors who complete the program gaining a greater understand
June 9, 2019 AUC Partners with Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area AUC recently partnered with the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area for student and faculty exchange, as well as other forms of academic collaboration.
May 29, 2019 Japanese Government Bestows Dean Nabil Fahmy with Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun of the First Degree Nabil Fahmy '74, '77, Egypt's former foreign minister and founding dean and professor of practice in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, has been bestowed with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun of the first degree by the Japanese governmen
May 27, 2019 Board of Trustees New York Meeting Highlights The Board of Trustees held its May meeting in New York earlier this month.
August 27, 2019 Students Establish Sustainable Rooftop Community Garden in Informal Cairo Neighborhood Students in the Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology established a sustainable rooftop community garden in the informal Hattaba neighborhood of Cairo, near the Citadel.
May 29, 2019 AUC's Board of Trustees Votes Unanimously to Renew President Ricciardone The American University in Cairo’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to renew President Francis Ricciardone for a second four-year term, effective July 1, 2020.
May 23, 2019 Centennial Benefit Dinner Photo Highlights AUC hosted its eighth annual Benefit Dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — one of the world's largest art museums, housing over 2 million works of art in
May 29, 2019 Alum Uses Philosophy Studies at AUC to Found Go Clean Initiative “Go clean is all about changing people's perspective on recycling so that their brains give them negative signs when they witness environmental hazards,” said Mohamed Hamdy ‘13, founder of Go Clean, a recycling solutions company aiming to increase p
March 12, 2019 The Big Move While AUC is celebrating its centennial, another important University birthday is happening this year — the 10-year anniversary of the New Cairo campus. For the full article, click here.
May 23, 2019 Centennial Benefit Dinner Exceeds $1 Million Target for Student Scholarships At its eighth annual Benefit Dinner, AUC raised more than $1.15 million for student scholarships — exceeding the University's $1 million target for Centennial Scholarships, which help top students attend AUC. This is part of AUC's $100 million Centennial Campaign, which has now reached 80 percent.
May 19, 2019 The Century Committee The earliest discussion of the need for a new campus, exclusively built for the purpose of higher education, began just two years after the University was founded in the city center in 1919.
March 12, 2019 Culturally Connected AUC signed an agreement with prominent businessman and investor Naguib Sawiris, chairman of Orascom Investment Holding, to support the establishment of AUC’s Tahrir Cultural Center (TCC) on its Tahrir Square campus.
March 12, 2019 Ewart Hall: A Contemporary Classic Ewart Memorial Hall has been a cultural hub of downtown Cairo since it opened its doors in 1928, serving as a gathering place for lovers of literature, cinema, music and all forms of arts and culture.
