AUC Alumnae, Trustees Named Most Powerful Arab Businesswomen in 2015 by Forbes Middle East
Forbes Middle East recently released its third annual ranking of the 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen in the Arab World. This year, 11 ambitious women from the AUC community were included. Several AUC alumnae and a Board of Trustees member were honored at an awards ceremony in Dubai last month. Two...
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Research and Innovation
AUC Team Awarded MIT Grant for Solar Energy Research Collaboration
For the first time, a team from AUC has been awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) International Science and...
Arts and Culture
First Kidney, Oldest Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Mummy
Researchers in Portugal have found the first radiological outline of a kidney in an ancient Egyptian mummy and the oldest case of renal...
Campus Community
AUC Scholarship Recipient Builds Robots, Helps Community
Seif Helal from Beheira is the new recipient of the Joseph Van Vleck Endowed Scholarship, awarded to one Egyptian man and woman from...
Local to Global
Reliving the AUC Experience
Ten years ago, Omar El-Shenety ’05 was an undergraduate student at The American University in Cairo (AUC) studying economics and business...
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Alumna Rana el Kaliouby AUC’s Newest, Youngest Trustee
Rana el Kaliouby ’98, ’00, chief strategy and science officer of Affectiva, a spinoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, has been named to AUC’s Board of Trustees. Currently the youngest member of the board, el Kaliouby sees her election as a “huge honor and big...
Beyond the Frame
Artist Ronnie Close, professor in AUC's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, discusses film, photography and how we can explore images outside their frames.
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Purinton: Innovative Research, Analytical Approach for Education Reform in Egypt
To improve education in Egypt, Ted Purinton, dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), is focused on the big picture. “There is an enormous amount going on in terms of education reform in this country,” said Purinton. “As a school, our goal is not to get right in the middle of it, but to take...