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November 21, 2023

Empowering Engineers, Digitizing Heritage

AUC and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) have joined forces on Egypt’s Digital Heritage Portal project, alongside providing expert electronics training for engineering students and fresh graduates in the country.

November 20, 2023

Board of Trustees Welcomes New Member

AUC’s Board of Trustees has elected its newest member: Ahmed Galal Ismail ’97, chief executive officer and member of the Board of Directors at Majid Al Futtaim Holding, the leading shopping mall, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Collage of Construction Engineering students visiting the Iconic Tower

November 13, 2023

Glimpsing Future Careers from the Top Floor

Construction engineering undergraduates visited Egypt’s New Administrative Capital to explore hands-on advanced construction methods.

November 8, 2023

AUC Partners to Create Executive Diploma in Sustainability

Building on the University's expertise and proven track record in sustainability and its history of excellence in professional education, AUC will offer an Executive Diploma in Sustainability to train and empower 200 Emirati public servants as the United Arab Emirates prepares to host COP28 in November.

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October 29, 2023

Chemistry for a Cause: Finding Sustainable Alternative to Oils

AUC students won first place worldwide in a competition to develop sustainable alternatives to oils to reduce their carbon emissions.

yehea ismail in a meeting with us companies

September 17, 2023

Attracting Jobs for Electronics Trainees: Minister of Communications Engages with Top US Companies

In an effort to boost employment opportunities for electronics trainees, Yehea Ismail, director of the nanoelectronics and devices center at The American University in Cairo and Zewail City, accompanied by Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications, embarked on an extensive trip to engage with leading companies in the field and foster partnerships that would benefit the electronics trainees and contribute to the growth of the industry.

October 23, 2023

AUC, Al-Futtaim Partner to Support Architecture Student Internships

AUC's Department of Architecture and Al Futtaim Group Real Estate are partnering to launch a Professional Mentorship Program.

October 17, 2023

Current Gender Scholars, Future Change Agents

The Tomorrow’s Leaders Gender Scholars (TLS) program welcomed its third cohort of students from various academic backgrounds. Through the program, the students apply a gender lens to their areas of study, engage in civic engagement activities, pursue professional development opportunities and give back to their communities.

Hassan Azzazy speaking at the conference

September 24, 2023

AUC Tackles Pressing Challenges 'Toward a Better Future for Humanity'

AUC faculty and graduate students from the chemistry and biology departments as well as the Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology, joined over 300 researchers from around the globe at the 18th International Conference of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ICBMB) under the theme, “Toward a Better Future for Humanity.”

A photo of a street with cars, with blue graphic visualizations of automated vehicle technology

September 25, 2023

The Future of Self-Driving Cars

If you struggle navigating traffic in the morning, soon your car may be able to take the wheel. In fact, in 10 years' time, autonomous vehicles are expected to become a main form of transportation — but what still stands in the way of their development?In this short Q&A, Yasser Gadallah, professor of electronics and communications engineering at AUC, breaks down how autonomous vehicles are developing, some of the challenges of the field and why it's important to explore.

Rendering of Zahran's project on Haret Bergwan

September 20, 2023

Zero Carbon Cairo

For a team of architecture alumni at AUC, preserving Egypt’s heritage is vital to building a sustainable future. With collaboration from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Salford, Laila Hany ’23, Heba El Kammah ’23, Mostafa Zahran ’23, Saja Sameh ’23 and Amgad Abdulgawad ’23 set out to study how traditional crafts and buildings can be used to develop sustainable employment and housing across Egypt.

September 20, 2023

Meet Our New Faculty

A warm welcome to all our new faculty! With research interests from international policy to visual storytelling, we are thrilled to have incoming faculty this fall who are experts in a range of disciplines.

September 10, 2023

Women and Climate Change: A Scientific Perspective

“For every additional year of schooling a girl receives on average, her country’s resilience to climate disasters can be expected to improve by 3.2 points on the ND-GAIN Country Index, which calculates a country’s vulnerability to climate change in relation to its resilience.”

AUC students sit at desks in a classroom with a green wall behind them

September 4, 2023

AUC Introduces New Translation Minor, Science Specializations

AUC is kicking off the semester with new academic programs: the University’s first minor in translation studies, biology specializations in biotechnology as well as ecology and conservation, in addition to computer science and engineering specializations in embedded systems and artificial intelligence.

A graphic of women walking in a park in front of a city skyline.

August 22, 2023

A City for All: Gender as a Lens for Design

“Navigating a massive city such as Cairo encompasses a wide array of challenges and gender inequalities, from walking in the streets and riding public transportation to dealing with physical and social limitations, as well as the absence of public space. These are all encounters that raise questions about harassment and women's rights. Students should reimagine how this can be different,” said Momen El-Husseiny, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture.