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A New Era in Egyptology: The Grand Egyptian Museum Opens its Doors

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened it doors on November 1, 2025. AUC community members weighed in on what the opening means for Egypt, Egyptology, and the world.
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AUC Student Aspires to Use Architecture to Solve Global Challenges

With the support of the new Kerr Family Scholarship, AUC freshman Malak Hashem is on her path to becoming an architect whose buildings will address challenges to sustainability faced by communities ...
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Graduate Admissions

With a 95% employment rate after graduation, AUC students seeking graduate degrees will be able to reap the benefits of their further learning in the professional world. The graduate tuition rate is ...
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Undergraduate Support Grants

The Undergraduate Research Program offers partial funding for undergraduate students to support co-curricular research activity that goes beyond the regular requirements of academic coursework or ...
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Corporate Hotel Rates

For better service, the Travel Office has secured excellent corporate deals with unique hotels to ensure a comfortable stay for The American University in Cairo (AUC) community. Note that the US ...
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Research and Creativity Convention (RCC) 2025

Research at AUC Research and Creativity Convention (RCC) Research and Creativity Convention (RCC) 2025 ...
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Sabbaticals and Other Leaves

Sabbatical, pre-tenure, professional development, and leave without pay will be processed by submitting an online form that will flow automatically from faculty members to the department chair to the ...
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The Egyptology Best Sellers by the AUC Press

AUC Press has grown to be the largest English-language academic book publisher in the Middle East, and books on Egyptology have consistently topped its best seller list. Explore selections from the ...
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History of Mother's Day: From Ancient Egypt to Modern Times

It is a common belief that the tradition of Mother’s Day began in the West, originating from Greek and Roman spring festivals dedicated to maternal goddesses and Mothering Sunday observed in the ...
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Elham Fadaly ‘13 and Netherlands Team Win Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year

Recently, Physics World magazine announced that Elham Fadaly ’13 and her team at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands won the Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year. Recently ...
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AUC’s Libraries and Learning Technologies Wins Prestigious UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize

AUC’s Libraries and Learning Technologies (LLT) won the 2022 UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize for the decades of preservation work carried out by the Rare Books and Special Collections Library ...
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AUC Professor Moustafa Youssef First and Only ACM Fellow in the Middle East and Africa

Moustafa Youssef, professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The American University in Cairo (AUC), was recognized as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ...