Call for International Conference “Rethinking Resistance: The 1916 Uprising in Central Asia” on May 20-21, 2016. The year 2016 marks the centenary of the 1916 Uprising  in Central Asia. The largest and by far the most violent national protest against the Russian colonial rule, the Uprising of 1916 remains one of the lesser known episodes in the history of the region.

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.

Environmental Management and Sustainable Development (EMSD) students Aziz Aitbaev and Bayan Akhmet and Lab Assistant/Instructor Bakhtyiar Asanov attended the workshop “Stakeholder Engagement in Research” in Almaty, Kazakhstan on September 14-17, 2015.

Anthropology Program at the American University of Central Asia invites students from various universities of Kyrgyzstan and abroad to participate in the Annual Anthropology Student Conference "Exploring New Lands and Prospects in Kyrgyzstan and Beyond" to be held at AUCA on October, 23, 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 25, 2015, the Department of Psychology organized the Annual Psychology Student Symposium at American University of Central Asia (AUCA).

Of the changes we’ve made at WARC this year, the most visible to our students (perhaps with the exception of our new large and beautiful space), is our online scheduling system. This new system was a product of a close partnership between WARC management, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, and the AUCA student body.

On August 31 – September 4, Rahat Sabyrbekov, an assistant professor in the Economics Department at AUCA, participated in the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a Young Fellow. Rahat is a co-author of the Regional and Subregional Assessment on Europe and Central-Asia.

On Friday, September 25, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Psychology Department of AUCA will hold annual student Symposium. This significant academic event is designed to encourage Psychology majors to conduct their research and internship as well as present their findings to a diverse audience of Psychology students and faculty members.

The Mary Schweitzer Scholarship was an initiative of the anthropology department’s class of 2005. It was established in 2010 and started funding students the same year. The scholarship was founded to support outstanding students studying anthropology at AUCA.