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Sculpture in stone - 10-day summer workshop announcement

This ten-day intensive workshop will take place outside Rome near Carrara (Tuscany), the cradle of stone sculpture in Italy. 

This workshop carries 3 credits. These can be transferred to support your degree at your home university.
 

George Soros and the inauguration of CEU’s Vienna campus

I first met George Soros in Tirana 20 years ago. His Open Society Foundations had little short of a holy status among young Albanians. The OSF had supported capacity building, and young Albanian professionals grasped the opportunity and started careers that were taken for granted in the West.

M.A. Food Studies Students attend Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

As part of the Food, Environment, and Society course, students attended the event "Putting Food Security and Nutrition at the Heart of Climate Action." The event showcased initiatives by both private sector and civil societ

10 Years On, AUR Remembers Professor Terry Kirk

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the passing of Professor Terry Rossi Kirk, professors Paul Gwynne and Timothy Allen spoke to an enthusiastic audience on topics that would have been near and dear to the interests of the late professor.
 

Looking at the trees gazing at the sky. An exhibition by Marina Buening

The three artists discuss the relationship between man and nature, highlighting aspects such as fragility, conservation, transcendence, reality and illusion in a succession of intimate dimensions that

Internship at the Capitol

Having an internship with Congresswoman Velazquez this summer was a unique and rewarding experience.

Conference: Sustainable Food Systems < > Sustainable Diets

There is now ample evidence that food provisioning is a major determinant of the unprecedented and possibly irreversible changes in ecosystems.

AUR Trustee Dr. Antonio Giordano appointed Chair of Italian Cancer Association

Sbarro Health Research Organization founder and Director, Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D., has been recognized with a career award "for the great contributions he has made and which he will co

On the unveiling of a memorial to Peter Tompkins - journalist, author, spy.

On the evening of September 25, 2019, a memorial to Peter Tompkins, an American-born, European-educated spy, was unveiled on the main campus of The American University of Rome.

M.A. Food Studies students visit the Centro Agroalimentare Roma (CAR)

Located just outside of Rome, the CAR acts as the largest distribution point for food in Italy and the fourth in Europe. The center is a hub for retailers to come and purchase fresh produce and fish that has been checked for quality, labeled and packaged accordingly.