Congratulations to the Spring 2021 Presidential Research and Education Fund (PREF) Awardees. This year, the commission selected 9 of the most competitive proposals out of 14 applications from faculty, students, and staff.

Recently, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the American University of Central Asia.

The online institute launches for young journalists across Central Asia. Young journalists representing Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan will participate in a month-long virtual training program on topics including media literacy, data journalism, and digital storytelling.

It has been a long Covid-19 year for teachers and students. Meanwhile, the planet kept getting hotter, with 2020 tying for the hottest year that humans have ever experienced. Yet it is likely that 2020 will be one of the coolest years in the next 100 unless we change course quickly. As we head into Earth Month (or April), how can educators engage students with this critical issue?

  Give our children books and you will give them wings. Elle Lepman.   Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books.

Dear AUCA community,
Please join the AUCA Online Socrates Cafe session with Professor Ann Garry this Friday, April 2nd, at 12:00 P.M.
 
Ann Garry is professor emerita of philosophy at California State University at Los Angeles. She is the founding director of the Central for the Study of Genders and Sexualities.

If you want to learn how to sell your skills, ideas and time better, then find out what is the art of pitching with Edil Ajibaev in his session on March 23, 2021 at 12:00.

American University of Central Asia and Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding invite you to the webinar .

Amazon, Google, Facebook are global companies that most students dream of working for. Alumni often refuse to apply to these companies due to the lack of IT-degree. But, if you are not from the Software Engineering department and still want to work at Facebook, then this session with Saikal Nogoibaeva is for you.

Have you ever wondered why most employers require 1-5 years of experience from fresh graduates? Because you have 4 years of student life. Save your time, practice now or lose tomorrow. Learn how to extract maximum from it, why it is important and how it can help you build a career in conflict zones.