Meerim Nurbekova is a sophomore student majoring in International and Comparative Politics at AUCA. She is also a member of the university’s Student Senate. Last month, Meerim went to Madrid, Spain, to attend the International Student Leadership Conference (ISLC) held at Saint Louis University from April 23 to 26. Meerim shares her impressions, experience and some of the challenges she faced.

Reyhana Turdieva, a student of the Sociology Department at AUCA, presents her first photo exhibition “The Internship” in Bravo, which will be held till May 2. The exhibition is a result of a photography trip she did in January in the United Arab Emirates with Dr. Hersh Chadha, photographer, philanthropist and AUCA’s long-term supporter.

My name is Talgat Subanaliev and I am a dreamer. I am like the "Alchemist" of Paulo Coelho, but from Toktogul in Kyrgyzstan, a region no less beautiful than Andalusia. In high school, I was a socially active student, president of the pupils at my school, trying to make a difference. When I was in 10th grade, I participated in a training camp in journalism organized by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). That experience changed my life: I was going to be a journalist and study at AUCA.

There are lots of things that I missed about AUCA, but keeping it in the frame of academic life are conversations with professor Lance Tillman. He is one of the professors who impacted on my critical thinking and always had answers to my questions that most professors would just skip.

Bishkek is a very progressive city. I was impressed by the level of education here and the cooperation of women alongside men in order to have a better quality of life. I like and appreciate the culture of tolerance and diversity here. I believe that education is the only thing which enlightens people’s hearts and minds.

In March 8th, 2015 students of Business Administration from AUCA visited the World Business Dialogue in Cologne, Germany, which is one of the largest international student-run business conventions worldwide.

 Aidai Kadyralieva is one of our exchange students currently studying at Bard College. She shared her experience about her semester - living and studying abroad, with us.

With an AUCA degree in sociology in hand, I started my career by furthering my sociological imagination at Ball State University’s Department of Sociology (USA).  In 2003, I returned to my alma mater to teach and learn from my students during seven marvelous years in the Sociology Department.

Teaching or flying? I very much like being a flying English teacher. I am passionate about teaching, I love meeting students from all over the world.

Chynara Baichaeva and Dair Bozgunchiev shared their stories and experience of working at one of the world’s largest companies with us.