Acting Vice-Chancellor Hoon Eng Khoo writes about the linkages between educating girls and eradicating poverty in the 2010 issue of the UN Chronicle.
AUW Patron Cherie Blair gave a speech at an event to support AUW in Kuwait. The video is available on AUW's YouTube channel.
Sunita Basnet discusses changing society through media, using examples from her own country of Nepal, at the One Young World 2010 summit in London.
The AUW Community Service Club (AUWCSC) invites interested AUW affiliates to attend an introductory presentation. The club was inaugurated in June 2008 by the first batch of Access Academy (AA) students-- now first-year undergraduate students--with support from the administration and the former AA teachers. Since November 2008, the club has been implementing a project in UTSA Slum School in Pahathuli, Chittagong.
The Club presentation is on March 2 at 5 pm at the 20/G rooftop.
Binny K. Babu (first row, right), Jyothi Nair (first row, second from left), and Renjini A. Thomas (first row, left) were selected to attend the Youth Unite for Voluntary Action (YUVA) Meet in New Delhi. The two-day event brought together 120 young people from Bangladesh, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Philippines, all of whom wrote about the impacts of climate change.
Read the report written by Binny, Jyothi, and Renjini
About the speaker: Professor Karma Lekshe Tsomo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, where she teaches Buddhism, World Religions, and Comparative Religious Ethics. She is also the President of Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women, and the director of Jamyang Foundation, an initiative to provide educational opportunities for women in developing countries. She is currently in Nepal on a Fulbright Research Grant for a project on Buddhist Ethics and Society: Women’s Perspectives in Nepal and Bangladesh.
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The founder of AUW answers the questions posed by Valeria Fraschetti about women's education and the University. ResetDOC (Dialogues on Civilization) is an international cultural association based in Italy.
Read the article on resetdoc.org
Mrs. Blair's visit to Bangladesh to launch the Cherie Blair Fellowships at AUW receives extensive media coverage. Below are the links to the online news articles about Mrs. Blair's trip:
Leading business publication Forbes covers "leadership lessons" at AUW in its Global Women section.
Read the article on Forbes.com
Note: Student numbers in the article represent data from the 2008-2009 academic year.
