On October 24, 2020, twenty-seven undergraduate and master students had an opportunity to present their research topics at the Annual Student Symposium of the Psychology Department -“Research, Writing and Thinking in Contemporary Psychology” 

Our Journalism and Mass Communication department continues #JMCteam posts, where every week they will meet you with their brilliant faculty team members and their work activities. Today they introduce you Aizhana Dzhumalieva.

Maftunakhon Tokhirova is a junior student of Anthropology department. She came to study at AUCA from Tashkent. Maftunakhon is one of the most active students of the faculty. She recently won the AUCA Alumni Scholarship.

Are you interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMICS, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, OR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS at AUCA, one of the top universities in Central Asia offering American-style education, but you cannot afford the school's high tuition fees?

Today, as part of the Investigative Journalism course of Tom Torok, we have a guest lecture with Oleg Khomenok, member of GIJN's (Global Investigative Journalism Network) Board of Directors, and a Senior Media Adviser at Internews Network.

Maftunakhon Tokhirova is a junior student of Anthropology department. She came to study at AUCA from Tashkent. Previously, she applied for an exchange program and was successfully accepted to study at BARD College, USA. Due to the pandemic, the flights have been canceled and now Maftunakhon is studying remotely. We talked with her about her student life and learned about her best memories at AUCA.

During an online class of investigative journalism Journalism Department , guest lecturer Dylan Purcell shared with students the process and deliberation with which he uncovered his two Pulitzer prize winning pieces, Toxic City and The Probation Trap. Purcell emphasized how important it is to use every resource available to get the information you need as a truth-seeker, recalling that at times, when his team could not get access to a dust sample inside of a school (to test if the schools were harming children with exposure to lead), they had to train teachers to test the schools instead, risking the teacher’s jobs for the children’s safety.

AUCA Anthropology department held the first Anthropology Club meeting of a new season with Hikoyat Salimova, she had a presentation "BAZAARS AS ESSENTIAL PART OF URBAN FABRIC IN UZBEK CITIES".

The Liberal Arts and Sciences department has launched four new and innovative concentrations. These concentrations are not only new to AUCA, but also the whole region. They are Digital Cultures, Environmental and Urban Studies, Literature and History, Peace, and Conflict Studies.

Dr. Bermet Tursunkulova is well known to the AUCA community as she has been a professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics since 2005. She also ably served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs from 2008-2015.