Four AUCA students were given the chance to get up close and personal with some of the glaciers in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan Mountains this summer, and to try their hands at helping to answer some of these questions.

Nurkalyy Sooronbayev graduated from American University of Central Asia in 2018. He studied Business Administration and did his minor in International Business Law. This year Nurkalyy moved in San Francisco, the USA to do the Masters degree in International Business. In the following interview, Nurkalyy tell about his experience and give good advice to AUCA students.

The AUCA Outdoor Club along with AUCA’s Environmental Management and Sustainable Development Program under which the club operates was recognized for their active participation and commitment to outdoor exploration while participating in the Annual Mountain Tourism Weekend held by the Trekking Union of Kyrgyzstan (tuk.kg) in beautiful Kegeti Gorge in honor of International Tourism Day.



Sabrina Beaver, an exchange student from the Wellesley College, US, came to Kyrgyzstan for the first time. She is impressed about a beauty of the country, “Last week we went to Ala-Archa for hiking, it was just gorgeous. I really like Bishkek, I am looking forward to get to know the city better.”

This year archaeological practice of AUCA Anthropology Department is organised in the form of Summer Field School jointly with Indiana University students leading by Professor Anne Pyburn and Aida Abdykanova

On 13-14 April, the Departments of 'Applied Geology' and 'Environmental Management and Sustainable Development' at AUCA organized the field trip to Kumtor mining site for students. This site tour was arranged by faculty member Rustam Orozbaev, as a part of the practicum for the course of 'Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Mining'. 

This week ‘Young Working-Class Men in Transition: Lecture Review of Dr. Steve Roberts’ article by a senior student from Sociology Department at AUCA Asel Shamyrbekova was published at London School of Economics (LSE) Engenderings.

Last year AUCA started a cooperation with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) in delivering the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) and became the Central Asian hub for this program.

Razia Gul is a junior student at AUCA who is currently majoring in International and Comparative Politics and minoring in Journalism and Mass Communication. Razia has spent her 2017-2018 fall semester in one of the oldest universities in the world Philipps University Marburg, Germany

This semester, the Writing and Academic Resource Center (WARC) introduced tutoring sessions in programming by request from the Student Senate. This initiative—which became an immediate success, with all of the programming sessions booked on a regular basis--marks the first example of close cooperation between the Student Senate and the WARC.  We asked the Student Senators to tell us more about this project.