Material collected as part of the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research project is now freely available online. The project included the recording of six performances, nearly six hours in total, consisting of over ten thousand lines of poetry, by the esteemed manaschis Talatantaaly Bakchiev and Doolot Sydykov.

Pari Vatanshoeva is an AUCA Business administration student from Tajikistan who had experience in an exchange program and had a chance to extend her study in Poland. She believes that the AUCA exchange program will help her personal development and gain experience in a multicultural environment with people with different backgrounds.

AUCA Therapist Elmira Amandykova once again reminds us how to protect our loved ones, ourselves, and avoid the disease.

"I have never met so welcoming people as in this country, everyone I met was full of good intentions.” AUCA caught the attention of an ESPOL student who applied to the ICP department due to the desire to know more about Central Asia. 

On December 14, 2021, Jonathan Becker, Acting President of the American University of Central Asia and Vice Chancellor of the Open Society University Network, joined the showcase of students’ projects organized by AUCA’s Center for Civic Engagement (CCE).

“AUCA is full of adventures and discoveries, where students come from all over the world which made the experience even more interesting for me”
 

The Liberal Arts and Sciences department at the American University of Central Asia successfully hosted its first Startup Pitch Competition (Innovation Challenge) on December 18th, 2021. 

AUCA Alumni is happy to announce that they are renewing “Alumni Talks” where they will invite AUCA alums working in numerous spheres ranging from academics to communications, IT and startups to share their experiences with you.

Levi Bridges, the U.S. journalist that focuses on immigration and labor shared an inspiring article on theworld.org about Afghan students at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) that were forced to leave their country, but not their cultural affiliation and faith.
 

On December 17, the AUCA Department of Anthropology held an award ceremony dedicated to those students who were selected to receive the Mary Schweitzer Scholarship for Excellence in Antropology.