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A collage of photos showcasing AUC's main highlights in 2024

December 12, 2024

AUC Highlights: 2024 Year in Review

We celebrate the AUC community's achievements, innovative initiatives, commitment to excellence and significant influence on the world.

Hassan Azzazy (right) stands smiling with two other men who are part of the plasmonic sensing network.

December 10, 2024

Plasmonic Sensing at AUC: Tackling Pathogens and Pollutants

With applications ranging from food security to environmental health, AUC’s pioneering work in plasmonic sensing is driving international collaboration.

Students walking in front of a building at the New Cairo campus

December 2, 2024

AUC Receives Single Largest Gift in its History to the School of Business

In honor of the transformative gift, the University will name its business school the Onsi Sawiris School of Business in perpetuity.

Researcher wearing VR headset, superimposed on a screenshot of the VR campus that the research team used to run the experiment

November 27, 2024

AUC Researchers Use VR to Reshape Campus Navigation

AUC research team uses virtual reality lab to discover optimal architectural designs and wayfinding tools for campus buildings.

Mark Morad smiles in front of the AUC garden

November 20, 2024

AUC Freshman Develops ScribeMe App for People with Visual Impairments

Meet Mark Morad, the AUC freshman who is making the internet more accessible for people with visual impairments.

June 12, 2024

The Afretec Healthcare Summer School

The Afretec Healthcare Summer School, hosted by The American University in Cairo AUC and sponsored by Afretec from June 9 to 12, 2024, was an electrifying four-day event that redefined African healthcare. With top-notch speakers from across the continent, the workshop dove into the latest in digital tech, AI, and telemedicine. It brought together the brightest minds in research, medicine, and industry for a series of inspiring talks and breakthrough discussions, igniting new ideas and paving the way for a transformative leap in healthcare across Africa.

A group of men and women, including AUC architecture faculty and students, standing next to each other and smiling at the World Urban Forum

November 13, 2024

AUCians Excel at World Urban Forum

Addressing contemporary challenges ranging from community-based development to climate action, AUC faculty and students from various disciplines actively engaged in the 12th World Urban Forum (WUF 12), the premier global conference on sustainable urbanization organized by UN-Habitat.

Carlos Moreno speaks at an AUC podium onstage.

November 13, 2024

The 15-Minute City: Q&A with Carlos Moreno

AUC welcomed Professor Carlos Moreno from Panthéon-Sorbonne University for a talk on urban innovation.

Photo of Cairo's Nile river with the logos of the World Urban Forum, World Urban Campaign, Egypt Urban Campaign

November 6, 2024

AUC Hosts Egypt's First World Urban Campaign Assembly

Held in Egypt for the first time, AUC is hosting the UN-Habitat’s biennial World Urban Campaign Assembly on the future of urban planning.

A collage showing an illustration of a disinfectant being spared on a table and killing the germs, and the second half of the collage shows an AUC chemistry professor in his lab coat smiling in the lab.

November 4, 2024

AUC Research Team Develops Long-Term Disinfectant, NanoGuard

A research team led by Distinguished University Professor Hassan Azzazy developed a novel long-term dual disinfectant formula, NanoGuard.

An AUC architecture student smiling and hoding a conference certificate and standing in front of the conference backdrop in Turkey

October 21, 2024

Architecture Student Develops Floating City Prototype to Save Coastal Cities

Nayer Rizkallah proposed a floating city prototype to accommodate displaced citizens and preserve cultural identity.

Maysem Alagamy sitting behind a mini Egyptian flag and placard

October 16, 2024

AUC Junior Represents Egypt at Youth Meeting in Jordan

Maysem Alagamy, a junior at AUC, was selected to represent Egypt at the Arab Capitals Youth Meeting by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

Man holding camera with a vest marked "press" walks in a damaged road full of rubble.

October 14, 2024

Reporting in Conflict Zones

AUC faculty and alumni interviewed 18 Palestinian journalists in Gaza to produce an award-winning research paper on war reporting.

September 29, 2024

Egypt’s Best Thanawiya Amma Performers Come to AUC

This fall, seven of Egypt's top 10 thanawiya amma students joined our student body.

She Can in ICT – Scholarship Program Returns!

September 25, 2024

Empowering Women in Tech

The School of Continuing Education is excited to announce the return of the highly successful She Can in ICT scholarship program, proudly sponsored by the AFRETEC Network!