On October 29, 2015, 26 students from the Environmental Management and Sustainable Development (EMSD) program conducted field research to count radiation in the AUCA campus area. Vanessa Graf, one of the students on the trip, tells us about her experience.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan from October 28 to November 3. In Bishkek, the Secretary will participate in the opening of the new campus of the American University of Central Asia and dedicate the new chancery of the U.S. Embassy.

"Save The Date! AUCA New Campus Gala Opening!" October 31, 2015
The American University of Central Asia cordially invites you to the New Campus Gala Opening on October 31st, 2015. Join us to celebrate

Dear students! We are launching a photocontest “Hello, New Campus!” in honor of the official opening of AUCA’s new campus on October 31, 2015.

Saadat Musabaeva, a senior in the International and Comparative Politics Department minoring in Anthropology at AUCA, attended the American University in Bulgaria as a visiting student in the fall of 2013. This past spring, Saadat spent another semester abroad with the Bard College exchange program.

On September 14, 2015 famous millinery designer and AUCA alumna Lilia Fisher visited her alma-mater to hold a guest lecture, “Hats and the City,” for students and alumni.

On September 2, 2015 a group of professors from Harvard University, University of Chicago, Yale University, University of Stanford, Columbia University, National Geographic and the Smithsonian visited the new AUCA campus.

“The movie that can best describe my life in the Netherlands is Forrest Gump”, shares Bermet Muradylova, a senior student of Business Administration Department, about her exchange semester at HAN University in Netherlands.
 

Kanykei Dzhumanalieva, a senior student of the Economics Department, participated in the International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability (ISCES) from June 2 to 7, 2015 in Shanghai, China.
 

Originally from New Rochelle, NY, Neil is a 4th year university student majoring in International Relations and Russian with the focus on the former Soviet Union. It’s been almost a year since he arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on the scholarship to study Central Asian Politics, Russian and Uzbek.