Bianca Tardio, a Fall 2016 exchange student from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), recently received the VCU Upperclassmen Scholarship for strong academic performance. During her application process, she wrote an essay about how studying abroad here at AUS impacted her, and described how she joined the VCU Global Education Office as a volunteer to encourage VCU students to study abroad. IXO congratulates her on this wonderful achievement.
Go on the journey of a lifetime.
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Farewell to Graduating PAs
We bid farewell to all of our graduating Peer Advisors: Dinete Kollanur (SBA), Seham Nasser (SBA) and Tarek Alsayed (CEN). IXO congratulates them on completing their bachelor’s degree in their respective fields, and wishes them all the best for their future endeavors. They will be deeply missed.
Left to Right: Lillie, Linda, Dinete, Seham, Tarek, Grace
Welcome Back!
IXO is in the process of welcoming back all AUS students who studied abroad in Spring 2017. We love this time of the year when we get to hear all about our students’ overseas adventures.
IXO Student Contributes to Flashbacks
We hope you all saw Flashbacks, a collection of six short plays that ran in the College of Arts and Sciences last month. We attended, and were proud to note that former IXO student Julian Drumm (see above) from Westminster College, USA, had written one of the acts named “Second Chances.” In addition, our IXO colleague Abu Bakr Alani, CIEE’s Resident Director, also acted in “Baba Ghanoush,” another act in this play.
IXO Connections Are For Life
Incoming Fall 2014 exchange student Carlos Aguero from University of New England unexpectedly ran into fellow exchange student Julian Drumm from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah recently. They were happy to meet for the first time after having spent a semester here at AUS together.
Left to Right: Carlos and Julian in Utah
Best of Luck
IXO wishes everyone the best of luck with their upcoming final exams. We wish you all a relaxing holiday and safe travels over the summer, and extend our heartfelt best wishes during the holy month of Ramadan.
Great Publicity Recently
IXO received a lot of great news last month!
AUS was ranked as the most diverse student body in the world by Times Higher Education: https://tinyurl.com/k59juko
US News voted the UAE as the number one destination for study abroad: https://tinyurl.com/mhlh5hs
Sharjah was recognized as a top 100 student-friendly city by QS World Rankings: https://tinyurl.com/k549sbz
The UAE was shown to be the second safest country in the world by World Economic Forum: https://tinyurl.com/mo8ubxg
In response, Dr. Linda Angell contributed an AUS blog posting about why AUS is the best place to study abroad within the UAE: https://tinyurl.com/m7f6gaj
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