Class of 2009 Graduation Ceremony Full of Optimism Despite Economic Crisis  
AUB Medical Center Designated First “Magnet®” Facility in the Middle East
Distinguished Awards
An Up-to-Date Map of the AUB Campus Now Available
AUB Confers Five Honorary degrees
AUB and IC Announce Successful Sale of Campus Property
AUB Appoints Mohamed H. Sayegh, MD, as Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Mohamad Kurdi Appointed Director of the Purchasing Department at AUBMC
Omar Odeh Appointed Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing
New Faculty Profile: Bana Bashour
Article by AUB’s Registrar Receives Top 10 Most Cited
Two Students First to Receive Diploma in Media Communication
FAS Pays Tribute to Dean Khalil M. Bitar
Applied Energy Program and Research Institute on Energy and Natural Resources Launched in FEA
President’s Club Annual Reception
AUB to Name a Manufacturing Technology Hub after the Late Georges Frem
AUB Dedicates the Fahmi Karagulla Dean’s Wing in Engineering
FAFS AREC ’80 Scholarship Fund
AUB and the Richard Makdisi family Announce the Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund
Nora Boustany Appointed Writer-in-Residence Fellow at Issam Fares Institute
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at FAFS Signs Academic Agreement with School of Veterinary Medicine at Szent Istvan University in Hungary
Announcement: HMPD Stakeholders’ Meeting
Inauguration of Diya Mutasim Dermatology Library: A Celebration of Giving and Perseverance
ACC Holds 7th Faculty Seminar and Workshop on Blended Learning
Promotion 2008-09
AUB Alumni and Former Students in the Lebanese Parliament-June 2009
President’s Service Excellence Awards for Six Employees
AUBMC celebrates Naming in Ras Beirut Street for Ibrahim Dagher
White Coat Ceremony for Med III Class of 2011
Interior Design Course Exhibit
AUB Volunteering Day 2009
$11,000 in Cash Prizes for Best AUB Student Essays on Michel Chiha
Come and Join the All Sports Summer Camp From July 6 to August 14, 2009!
Announcement
Christian Jihad and Muslim Monasticism
Lecture on the Phoenician Gene
AUB Alumni Celebrate Values of Alma Mater
AUB Relives Student Activism in Hyde Park Event
Azmi Bishara on 61st Anniversary of the Naqba
Professor Azoury’s Sixth Student-Faculty Concert
From Darwin’s Days
Recently Published A Campus at War: Student Politics at the American University of Beirut 1967-1975 by Makram Rabah (BA ‘03, MA ‘07) Dar Nelson (2009)
Shaping America by Patrick McGreevy. SUNY Press 2009
History of the Bissat El-Reeh Magazine (1960-1970) by Henry Matthews
Al-Jahiz: A Muslim Humanist for our Time
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Salim Maksoud, Agriculture Expert, Dies
Tribute to Thomas C. Weaver
The Annual Student Art Exhibition: A Feast for the Senses
Troy: Mother of All Wars Lands on AUB Shores
Dina Abou Salem Steps Down as University Web Editor
Zaki Nassif Concert and Competition
June - July 2009 Vol. 10 No. 8


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