January 17, 2017
Name: Szilard Bedecs
Title: Director of the Information Technology Department
Number of years at CEU: 12
Home city/town & country: Komarom, Hungary
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
Goulash soup cooked on open fire
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
December 13, 2016
Name: Zsolt Enyedi
Title: Professor, Department of Political Science / Pro-Rector for Hungarian Affairs
Number of years at CEU: 20 (Plus a year as a student in 1993-1994.)
Home city/town & country: Dej or Dés, Romania
What’s your favorite Hungarian food? Töltött káposzta (stuffed cabbage) and vinetta (eggplant-cream, Transylvanian style)
November 29, 2016
Name: Sotiris Bekas
Title: Video Program Manager
Number of years at CEU: 1,5
Home city/town & country: Originally, I'm from Artopoula (a small village in Epirus, Greece), but I used to live in Athens for 20 years.
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
Halaszle, a traditional Hungarian soup of paprika-spiced broth and thick cuts of river fish.
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
November 15, 2016
Name: Vanda Mohacsi
Title: European Research Council Projects Officer
Number of years at CEU: 9
Home city/town & country: Budapest, Hungary
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
I cannot choose between chicken in breadcrumbs and layered potato
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
November 2, 2016
Name: Fatime PlotarTitle: Executive Assistant to the Dean of StudentsNumber of years at CEU: 3 (+5 in an earlier position)Home city/town & country: a beautiful small town with a unique thermal lake, Heviz, in Hungary
What's your favorite Hungarian food?Racponty
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?Mies van der Rohe and Jan van Eyck
October 18, 2016
Name: Adri BrucknerTitle: Director of CommunicationsNumber of years at CEU: 4Home city/town & country: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
What's your favorite Hungarian food?
Turos csusza
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
Frank Lloyd Wright
What's your favorite language, whether you speak it or not?
Hungarian is beautiful, Japanese is funky
September 20, 2016
Name: Zofia PazitnaTitle: Project OfficerNumber of years at CEU: 8 plus one year as MA student at SociologyHome city/town & country: Komárno, Slovakia
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
Szilvasgomboc (plum dumpling) as used to be made by my Grandmother
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
I've admired Van Gogh since I was a child
September 6, 2016
Name: Szilvia Kardos
Title: Executive Assistant to the Provost
Number of years at CEU: 18
Home city/town & country: Sturovo, Slovakia
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
Racponty (rac means Serbian, so in fact it is carp Serbian style)
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
Art Nouveau architecture and artwork, in general.
June 30, 2016
Name: John Shattuck
Title: President and Rector
Number of years at CEU: 7
Home city/town & country: Boston, USA
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
Chicken paprikas
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
Vermeer
What’s your favorite language, whether you speak it or not?
French
What’s your favorite quote or idiom?
May 17, 2016
Name: Katalin Tikos
Title: Head of Public Services at CEU Library
Number of years at CEU: 12
Home city/town & country: Budapest, Hungary
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
I have many, for example fruit soup, chestnut puree, ropi
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
Caravaggio
What’s your favorite language, whether you speak it or not?
Hungarian
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