September 18, 2012
As part of its 20th anniversary celebration in 2011, CEU established the European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The first and only pan-European teaching award, it was created to emphasize the importance of teaching within European higher education, where research tends to dominate. At CEU’s opening ceremony on Sept. 14, President and Rector John Shattuck presented the inaugural award to Dr. Eleanor Denny, an assistant professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
September 18, 2012
To increase opportunities for interdisciplinary and innovative courses of study, CEU is introducing two non-degree certificate programs this fall, one each in network science and science studies. The PhD Certificate in Network Science, administered by the Center for Network Science, is offered to PhD students in the departments of Economics and Political Science. It includes one mandatory course, taught this semester by Prof. Janos Kertesz. The Science Studies Certificate program is for MA and PhD students interested in the interrelations between science and society. Directed by Prof.
September 18, 2012
CEU President and Rector John Shattuck welcomed the incoming class of 629 students at the University’s opening ceremony for the academic year, held on Sept.14 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Chosen from nearly 7,000 applicants – the largest pool of applicants in CEU history – the new class members come from 82 nations.
September 18, 2012
On Sept. 7, CEU President and Rector John Shattuck and Vice President for Student Services Peter Johnson hosted new students at the CEU Welcome Afternoon. An integral part of the orientation program, the event is designed to give new students an early opportunity to interact with each other across departments and to begin developing a sense of belonging within the CEU community. The event included representatives of academic units, student clubs, and external organizations involved in wide-ranging programs in Budapest and elsewhere in Hungary.
September 18, 2012
ARCS staff will host an open house for faculty and staff on Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. in their office lobby on the first-floor mezzanine area of Nador 9. Activities include a brief report of highlights from CEU’s 20th Anniversary Alumni Survey, a brainstorming session on ways to keep CEU’s academic and alumni communities connected for mutual benefit, and a discussion of ways the Career Services Office can help faculty and staff members assist their students. Coffee and snacks will be served. RSVP to Szilvia Molnar, at MolnarSz@ceu.hu.
September 18, 2012
CEU Trustee Matthew Nimetz has made a $200,000 five-year commitment to CEU’s School of Public Policy (SPP). Nimetz’s gift will provide scholarship funding for six students from southeastern Europe, enabling them to join the inaugural class of the school’s two-year Master in Public Administration degree program in September 2013. It is the first major charitable gift to SPP—and the only one designated for scholarships—since the school’s public launch in August 2011.
September 18, 2012
The VELUX Foundations have awarded CEU’s Roma Access Programs a three-year grant of more than 5.4 million Danish kroner (approximately €726,000) to increase opportunities for talented Roma students to pursue postgraduate study. The only program of its kind in the world, the intensive nine-month course prepares members of Europe's largest and most marginalized minority – the Roma – to enter international postgraduate studies through open competition at top universities in Europe and North America.
September 18, 2012
CEU’s Economics Department begins this academic year with three European Research Council Starting Grants, having attracted two this summer and one last year. The two new grants went to faculty members Miklos Koren (€1.314 million) and Botond Koszegi (€1.275 million). Adam Szeidl’s 2011 grant (€1.165 million)—plus support from the Institute for New Economic Thinking—bring the department’s external research funding to more than €5 million.
September 18, 2012
Six researchers in four centers and two departments have won EU grants for teams participating in collaborative research consortia funded by the Seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development. Center recipients are Laszlo Barabasi (Network Science), Kate Coyer (Media and Communication Studies), Uwe Puetter (European Union Research), and Judit Sandor (Ethics in Law and Biomedicine). Department recipients are Dorothee Bohle (Political Science) and Laszlo Matyas (Economics).
September 18, 2012
Prof. Peter Balazs, director of CEU’s Center of EU Enlargement Studies, was awarded the Jean Monnet ad personam chairship by the European Union’s Life-Long Learning Program. The grant is awarded to professors with a distinguished background as former high-level practitioners in the field of European integration. Funding will help provide CEU graduate students with analytical tools for understanding the special nature of the EU’s multi-level foreign policy, which is based on common and national interests and identities.
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