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Founded in 1866 with the aim of providing excellence in education, contributing to the advancement of knowledge through research, and serving the peoples of the Middle East and beyond, the American University of Beirut offers more than 130 programs leading to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral degrees. Our educational philosophy, standards, and practices are based on the American liberal ar...
Founded in 1866 with the aim of providing excellence in education, contributing to the advancement of knowledge through research, and serving the peoples of the Middle East and beyond, the American University of Beirut offers more than 130 programs leading to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral degrees. Our educational philosophy, standards, and practices are based on the American liberal arts model of higher education. We are a teaching-centered research university, a community composed of about 800 instructional faculty and more than 8,000 students. We promote freedom of thought and expression and strives to produce graduates who are creative and critical thinkers committed to lifelong learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.
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Rachael Elmy
Interviewed in 2023
StaffRachael began working for the American University of Beirut in June 2022. Having graduated Champlain College in 2019 with a BS in Professional Writing...
My grandmother worked for the University of Hartford and she really enjoyed it. She appreciated that she was so valued as a university employee and because of her experience, it became my understanding that universities take extra measures to support their employees.
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Meghan Heffron
Participated in 2012
AlumniMeghan is an American who has lived in and near Washington, DC for the last 15 years. She currently works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
Well, the first inspiration was to travel and learn more about the world outside of my own on a personal level. Honestly before I left the U.S. to study abroad I had never left my home country. I got a passport for this study abroad experience.
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Choon Hwee Koh
Participated in 2012
AlumniChoon Hwee KOH will be Assistant Professor at UCLA's History department starting July 2021. She is a historian of the Ottoman empire.
When I was 18, I volunteered at a school event where kids from 82 different countries came to compete for a physics competition. I was in charge of Team Iran and made responsible for chaperoning five Iranian teenagers around Singapore for ten days.
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Founded in 1866 with the aim of providing excellence in education, contributing to the advancement of knowledge through research, and serving the peoples of the Middle East and beyond, the American University of Beirut offers more than 130 programs leading to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral degrees. Our educational philosophy, standards, and practices are based on the American liberal arts model of higher education. We are a teaching-centered research university, a community composed of about 800 instructional faculty and more than 8,000 students. We promote freedom of thought and expression and strives to produce graduates who are creative and critical thinkers committed to lifelong learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.
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Founded in 1866 with the aim of providing excellence in education, contributing to the advancement of knowledge through research, and serving the peoples of the Middle East and beyond, the American University of Beirut offers more than 130 programs leading to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral degrees. Our educational philosophy, standards, and practices are based on the American liberal arts model of higher education. We are a teaching-centered research university, a community composed of about 800 instructional faculty and more than 8,000 students. We promote freedom of thought and expression and strives to produce graduates who are creative and critical thinkers committed to lifelong learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.
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