November 15, 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Week Fosters Out-of-the-Box Thinking on Campus Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) starts today, challenging AUC’s business-minded community to think outside of the box.
November 12, 2015 Surging Dollar, Fluctuating Pound: What's Next? The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) recently appreciated the Egyptian pound (LE) after a series of devaluation measures due to shortage of foreign reserves and to preserve the value of the pound compared to other foreign currencies.
November 11, 2015 Dean Shawki: Egyptian Knowledge Bank to Widen Research, Education Opportunities Tarek Shawki, dean of the School of Sciences and Engineering, signed agreements with publishers from around the world to establish the “Egyptian Knowledge Bank”, a nationwide project aimed at providing all Egyptian citizens with access to quality research and education materials.
November 11, 2015 AUConnect Brings Alumni to Campus In an effort to build strong professional networks among alumni, the University has launched the AUConnect series, which brings prominent AUC graduates to speak about relevant topics in their fields, offer advice to students and build connections to other alumni.
November 9, 2015 PhD Student Internationally Awarded for Marine Pollution Research Microorganisms may be small, but according to Ghada Mustafa, PhD candidate in AUC’s biotechnology program, they offer a critical look into pollution’s impact on marine life.
November 3, 2015 Graham Harman Among Most Powerful Forces in Art World The London-based ArtReview magazine has ranked Graham Harman, AUC Distinguished University Professor, number 75 on its annual Power 100 list, which ranks the most influential people in the international art world. Harman was ranked previously in 20
November 2, 2015 QS Rankings Place AUC Among Top Universities Worldwide For the fifth consecutive year, AUC has been rated by QS World University Rankings as one of “the world’s highest-performing universities,” coming in at 345, several positions higher than its ranking last year and the highest it has been since AUC entered the QS ranking in 2011.
November 2, 2015 AUC-AUB Community Dialogue: No University is an Island “No University is an island” is the main message of the symposium, Universities and their Neighborhoods: An AUC-AUB Conversation, spotlighting the responsibilities of universities to their local communities.
Economics Alumna, Faculty Sahar Nasr New Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr ’85, ’90, adjunct faculty in the Department of Economics, is now the new minister of international cooperation.
Halloween Dress-up: Costume or Culture? Imagine someone came to a Halloween party dressed as an “African,” wearing tribal print clothes and painting their skin black. They tell you that they wanted to celebrate African culture, but earlier that day another student had called their costume disrespectful and even racist.
Alumnus Mourad Wahba: UN Helping Haitians Face the Future with Confidence Working with a country as complex as the Caribbean nation of Haiti requires a person of many talents and diverse experiences. Last spring, the United Nations decided Mourad Wahba was that person.
October 26, 2015 LEAD Student Conference Focuses on ‘Outlive: Breast Cancer’ Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in Egypt, according to the Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt, and in the United States, one in every eight women is diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
Nanotechnology for Treating Breast Cancer, Developing Natural Remedies After millennia of failed attempts, contemporary nanotechnology is the closest humanity has come toward the pursuit of alchemy.
June 1, 2018 AUC Trustees Weeklong Campus Visit Members of the Board of Trustees were on campus last week, as part of their weeklong visit to Cairo to engage directly with various constituencies and gain firsthand knowledge of Cairo and AUC.
October 22, 2015 Khaled Tarabieh: AUC is Pioneering Green Architecture in Egypt Sitting atop Egypt’s first green rooftop at AUC’s faculty housing building, Khaled Tarabieh, assistant professor of sustainable design in the Department of Construction and Architectural Engineering, stressed the idea that climate change cannot be addressed solely at the institutional level.
