SEBA participated in the biggest business event of the year. Over 20 SEBA students volunteered at EXPO and showed great effort in assisting organizing committee at all stages of the event. 

On Friday, November 1st, 2019, tutors, staff, and faculty and administration supporters gathered to celebrate the eighth “birthday” of the Writing & Academic Resource Center. Since its creation in 2011, the WARC has grown to a staff of 27 tutors who collectively conduct over 200 hours of tutoring a week, both online and in person.

On Saturday, October 26, the AUCA Psychology department conducted its Annual Student Symposium "Research, Writing, and Thinking in Contemporary Psychology", where graduating students presented their research proposals for the Senior and Master Thesis, and Projects in Social Sciences.

Open Access Program coordinator at EIFL International Library Consortium held a one-day training on “Open Science” for faculty, librarians, and researchers from AUCA and other institutions of Kyrgyzstan.

Students swept to victory in the First Accounting Championship in Bishkek, an academic competition held on AUCA’s campus this past weekend. The competition had about 200 people register from both Russian- and English-language universities across Kyrgyzstan.

On Saturday, October 26, the grand opening of the AUCA Technical School of Innovation was held. This is the only educational institution in Kyrgyzstan and region that provides an opportunity to receive an education equivalent to university programs after the 9th grade of secondary school. 

On October 25, the American University of Central Asia conducted a round table on the topic: "How do we make available Central Asian research?" as part of the International Open Access Week. The round table was hosted by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology.
 

Naumova Mariia, a 4th-year student in the department of TV, Cinema, and Media Arts won 2nd place in the People’s Choice Award contest for her movie Kyrgyz Taigan. 

Students from EMSD and Agro-ecology Integrated Crop Management courses visited the Lyceum, where specialists in organic agriculture, machine operators and textile handicraft workers trained. The purpose of the visit was to observe greenhouse, biogas technology, composting and storage for products.

International Open Access Week, a global event held between October 21-27, is an opportunity for open access advocates to engage their communities to teach them potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.