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August 14, 2022

Hani Sewilam Appointed Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation

Hani Sewilam, professor at AUC’s Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology and director of the Center for Applied Research on the Environment and Sustainability (CARES), has been appointed Egypt’s minister of water resources and irrigation.

Honors List Recipient Abdalla Ashraf Hassanein

August 1, 2022

Sustainable Development Students Named on School of Sciences and Engineering 2022 Honors List

Sustainable Development Program, announced two recipients of this year’s School of Sciences and Engineering Honors List.

June 22, 2022

Akher Kalam

“Architecturally, we have a campus that has been recognized internationally for its sustainability features and practices. We should continue to use these features as educational tools for our students,” said Sherif Goubran ’14 is assistant professor in the Department of Architecture.

June 22, 2022

Enter the CAVE

Students and alumni engage with the digital future through AUC’s VR lab.Hesham Ismail ’04, ’07 wanted to document an afternoon riding electric scooters with his wife in downtown Los Angeles, California, but he couldn’t take his hands off the handlebars to reach for his phone. Instead, he said, “Hey Facebook, take a video!” and the Ray-Ban sunglasses he was wearing began to record.

June 22, 2022

Finding the Superpower Within

A comic character developed by an AUC student to raise public health awareness is becoming an official pharmaceutical mascot.While working as an intern at Alexandria University hospital, Sara Nasr, a graduate student at AUC’s Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology (I-GHHE), witnessed constant misfortunes. However, the young physician-in-training found herself particularly touched by the stories of children suffering from hemophilia.

Professor explaining about buildings to students

June 22, 2022

‘Mostakbal’ of Urbanism

Students are rethinking traditional concepts in designing architectural plans for a green town in Egypt.

June 22, 2022

Creativity with Compassion

Human-centered design thinking approach is a core part of the AUC educational experience.By integrating design thinking into the curriculum, AUC is teaching students to approach complicated problems with a sense of empathy, creativity and resilience, explained Hoda Mostafa, professor of practice and director of the University’s Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT).

A face wearing glasses and surrounded by colored squares

June 22, 2022

Metaverse: Pervasive or Invasive?

Bringing technology to life carries with it privacy and societal implications.Here are some of the technologies AUC students have contributed to in just the last several years: a self-navigating wheelchair, applications that route traffic more intelligently and a smart mirror capable of determining a person’s vitals.

Mahmoud Mohieldin speaks at AUC's Climate Change Initiative launch event

June 29, 2022

AUC Launches Climate Change Initiative

AUC’s Climate Change Initiative was launched to capitalize on AUC’s contributions to national and international efforts in tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time. The initiative focuses on climate change and providing climate change solutions in specific contexts within the country.

June 27, 2022

Al Ghurair STEM Scholar Aspires to Break New Ground in Biochemistry, Disease Prevention

The death of Salma Abou Elhassan grandmother greatly affected her decision to attend AUC.

June 13, 2022

Medhat Haroun Award Winner for Scholarly Excellence 2021

The Medhat Haroun Award for "outstanding master's thesis work" was given to Mohamed Wagdy Nomeir for his thesis titled, “Machine Learning-Based Critical Resource Allocation in Mixed-Traffic Cellular Networks”.

Higher Ed Minister Awards AUC students for self-luminous concrete project

June 12, 2022

AUC Students Honored for Self-Luminous Concrete Thesis Project

Students awarded the ministry's shield for developing self-luminous concrete to light up roadways and pavements at night without using conventional energy sources.

Sallam and team at the Bahariya Oasis in 2016

June 8, 2022

Hesham Sallam Leads Egyptian Team’s Discovery of Bizarre Meat-Eating Dinosaur in Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis

Hesham Sallam, associate professor at AUC’s Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology in the School of Sciences and Engineering and founder of Mansoura University’s Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP), led an Egyptian team’s discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur revealing important secrets about the Prehistoric Era in the region.

June 6, 2022

Sustainable and Safe: Construction Engineering Students Create Glow-in-the-Dark Concrete

Four undergraduate students in the Department of Construction Engineering have developed self-luminous concrete to light up roadways and pavements without using conventional energy sources.

May 24, 2022

Reimagining Cairo: AUC Alum, Student Win 3rd Worldwide in 2022 Berkeley Prize Competition for Design Excellence

Mahmoud El Kady ‘21 and Tia Ashraf, anthropology graduating senior, won third place worldwide in the 2022 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence competition.

Hani Sewilam Appointed Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation

Sustainable Development Students Named on School of Sciences and Engineering 2022 Honors List

Akher Kalam

Enter the CAVE

Finding the Superpower Within

‘Mostakbal’ of Urbanism

Creativity with Compassion

Metaverse: Pervasive or Invasive?

AUC Launches Climate Change Initiative

Al Ghurair STEM Scholar Aspires to Break New Ground in Biochemistry, Disease Prevention

Medhat Haroun Award Winner for Scholarly Excellence 2021

AUC Students Honored for Self-Luminous Concrete Thesis Project

Hesham Sallam Leads Egyptian Team’s Discovery of Bizarre Meat-Eating Dinosaur in Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis

Sustainable and Safe: Construction Engineering Students Create Glow-in-the-Dark Concrete

Reimagining Cairo: AUC Alum, Student Win 3rd Worldwide in 2022 Berkeley Prize Competition for Design Excellence

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