NEWS

 
On September 7-11, 2016, Peg Peoples, the Associate Vice President for Education Initiatives at the Bard Institute for Writing & Thinking, visited the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) to meet and conduct workshops with faculty and staff members. She visited NGA, the WARC, FYS, GenEd, and talked with directors, faculty, and tutors. 

The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) Law Division and the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in Croatia conducted the 2016 Summer School in Human Rights in early September. The week-long seminar occurred in Kyrgyzstan and included five AUCA students, four AUCA professors, five University of Zagreb students and three University of Zagreb professors.

Tian Shan Policy Center kindly invites all interested to a guest lecture by Mr. Rajendra Shende, Policy Advisor at United Nations on implementation of activities related to ozone layer protection and climate change in more than 146 developing countries. Rajendra Shende is expert on transfer of environmentally sound technologies and the implementation of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in the developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

The keynote address by Prof. Amanda Wooden delivered on the occasion of opening of the Fifth Annual Conference of Central Asian Studies Institute.

AUCA's Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI) is holding its Fifth Annual Conference September 16 and 17. This year, the conference "Contesting Nature," examines the complicated and interpenetrating relationship of humans and their environment. 

On September 2, 2016, the Graduate School of Social Sciences welcomed its newly admitted students for the 2016-2017 academic year. The students will be studying in the Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Central Asian Studies (MACAS) departments.

Anastasiya Iun, a student in AUCA’s Master Program in Applied Psychology (MAPAP), was invited to study at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) during the Fall 2016 semester.

Priya Singh, the fellow of Kiva Fellows 30th Class, right now is working at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), told us about the work between KIVA and AUCA.

August 18, 2016, at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), the New Generation Academy (NGA) alumni had a meeting with Andrew Wachtel, the president of AUCA.

Between August 1 and August 12, 2016 six students from the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) and one student from the Institute of Mining and Mining Technologies named after the Academician Asanaliev volunteered to attend the Ecological Leadership Program in the beautiful Ala Archa National Park to improve their leadership skills and to learn more about Kyrgyzstan’s environment.