My name is Talgat Subanaliev and I am a dreamer. I am like the "Alchemist" of Paulo Coelho, but from Toktogul in Kyrgyzstan, a region no less beautiful than Andalusia. In high school, I was a socially active student, president of the pupils at my school, trying to make a difference. When I was in 10th grade, I participated in a training camp in journalism organized by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). That experience changed my life: I was going to be a journalist and study at AUCA.

Akobir Mamadrizokhonov is a triple volleyball champion and an Honored Master of Sport in Tajikistan. Born in Khorog, the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, he studied in Aga-Khan Lyceum School, and then entered the Khorog State University. The following year, he joined AUCA and he is now a graduate in Anthropology planning to finalize his second bachelor in Business Administration at the end of this academic year.

A group of AUCA students took part in three-day training of the «ProKG Leadership Program». The event took place from April 10 till April 12, 2015 in the beautiful ethno-complex Supara Chunkurchak.

There are lots of things that I missed about AUCA, but keeping it in the frame of academic life are conversations with professor Lance Tillman. He is one of the professors who impacted on my critical thinking and always had answers to my questions that most professors would just skip.

MA course is to be opened at the AUCA Department of Psychology in new academic year, which offers an opportunity to receive high quality knowledge and practical skills; moreover it provides students with additional opportunities to show their worth in international professional and academic arena.

Last week, on Thursday, AUCA students from the environmental chemistry class followed a chemical training. Their tasks were to analyze water samples, and determine their colorimetric scale and concentration of chloride and metal ions. All students got correct results, an evidence of students' better understanding theory of environmental chemistry course and good practices for chemical calculations in previous classes. 

As the America writer Napoleon Hill once put it: skills can only be developed with practice, not while reading instructions. All faculty members from the Anthropology Department adhere to the same principle when it comes to teaching. This education method helps better understand theory and program. That is why anthropologist students in AUCA can regularly be spotted on research fields and at various events organized by their own Department.

Today, the president of AUCA Andrew Wachtel and the Chief Information Officer at AUCA Dr. Karim Zerhouni handed over the new universal ID cards to 30 students of the Anthropology department. The card will be used on the new campus in fall 2015. This was the distribution of the first batch of ID cards. 

Diyora Rafieva graduated from AUCA in two majors: European Studies (2012) and International and Business Law (2013). She shares the challenges while graduating and how much the sacrifices were worth it at the end. After successfully completing the dual degree Diyora now works for NATO and recently became a mother, which is the happiest and proudest moment of her life. 

On April 5th, professor of Anthropology department, Cholpon Turdalieva visited “Belovodski special house for children” to deliver clothes and toys collected by AUCA students for charity.