On October 1-2, 2015 the "Life in Kyrgyzstan" conference took place in Bishkek for the first time. AUCA alumna Malika Ibragimova (Economics, 2015) was awarded “best student research”. She received a certificate and Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital.”

Student of Anthropology Department Basira Mir Mahamad took part in the two-week anthropological fieldwork in the town of Naryn. She told us about this unique experience, and how the fieldwork helped her and other students to develop their practical knowledge of archaeology.

Starting from this year, the Writing and Academic Resource Center (WARC) has launched a mentoring program for new tutors called “Critical Friends Group”. The program matches new tutors with returning ones in a series of meetings and mutual observations.

Vice President for Academic Affairs of AUCA Bermet Tursunkulova received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the nonprofit organization American Councils as one of the first FLEX Program alumni.

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).