Upcoming Events

Summer Lunchtime Business Lecture Series...Read more>>

The Challenges of Managing a Global NGO in a Complex World

Guest speaker Diana Serrano – Mon, June 14...Read more>>

AUR Commencement Exercises 2010

Friday, May 21, Villa Aurelia...Read more>>

Honorary Degree recipient Piero Angela meets AUR students

Friday, May 21, 2.00 pm – Auriana Audiorium...Read more>>

Art at AUR: students' exhibits

Monday, May 3rd, from 10.30 am ...Read more>>

AUR-LUMSA

New Course Exchange Opportunity...Read more>>

AUR GRANTED REGIONAL ACCREDITATION BY
THE MIDDLE STATES COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION

The American University of Rome is pleased to announce an additional accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)...Read more>>

CALL FOR PAPERS

English-Italian Conference "Contemporary Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City", Nov. 26-27 - Deadline June 1...Read more>>

“Celebrity”, AUR-Interdisciplinary Seminar

April 22, 5.00 to 7.00 pm, Auditorium

Celebrity. Why do people seek it? How does one acquire it and what are the consequences of achieving it? ...Read more>>

“100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go”

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 6:00 pm, Auriana Auditorium

American Women’s Association of Rome’s April Fact Forum
A presentation of Susan Van Allen’s book, ...Read more>>

Communication and English Department Week

April 12 to 15, Auriana Auditorium ...Read more>>

Thinking of a career in art?

Sotheby’s presentation on Thur., April 8th, at 12pm in the Auditorium ...Read more>>

Special Guest Lecture: “Rome, the Reluctant Capital”

Wednesday, April 7, 6.40 pm, Auriana Auditorium

The American University of Rome is proud to welcome Michael Herzfeld as Special Guest Speaker!...Read more>>

Prof. Zinder’s latest film wins Award

Director’s Choice at Black Maria Festival...Read more>>

Garden State Film Festival awards

Professor Marmorstein for best feature screenplay...Read more>>

Talk by US Ambassador to UN agencies for food and agriculture

Thursday, March 11 at 6.00 pm, Auriana Auditorium

In honor of International Women's Day, The American International Club of Rome (AICR) in collaboration with The American University in Rome has the unique opportunity to invite you to A Brindisi & Discussion with Featured Guest Speaker Ambassador Ertharin Cousin...Read more>>

AUR Professors on Discovery Channel

March 5th and 6th

AUR professors, Paul Gwynne and Valerie Higgins, are featured in a new National Geographic documentary called Mystery Files, part of which was filmed on the AUR campus...Read more>>

First Thursday with AUR Alumni

March 4th at Open Baladin...Read more>>

56th Harvard National Model United Nations

AUR returns with a prize! ...Read more>>

AUR launches new Career Services resource for students and alumni

AUR's Global World of Work Blog is a new online resource for students and alumni...Read more>>

Internship information session. Don’t miss!!!

Thursday, February 11th at 12:30 in Room 304

For all resident students interested in doing an internship this semester or in the future. The new Career Services blog, AUR's Global World of Work will also be unveiled.

Thursdays with AUR alumni

Thursday, February 11th, Etabli Winebar.... Read more>>

AUR welcomes new Diplomat-in-Residence

Lillian deValcourt-Ayala will serve from January 2010 through May 2011.... Read more>>

Retake Rome: “Speak Up & Clean Up” rally

Friday, February 5th, 3.30 pm, Auriana Auditorium

The Fondazione Giuseppi Garibaldi Onlus launches a cross-cultural community service project whose objective is to use the English language as an incentive to participate in Rome neighborhood clean-ups.... Read more>>

Donations Now Being Accepted For The Haiti Earthquake Victims

Donations accepted at the BBQ Reception on Saturday January 23 and in the Student Life Office until February 12th.

AUR is collecting money to donate to the Victims of the Haiti earthquake and will donate the money to AGIRE Onlus (Agenzia Italiana Risposta Emergenze) to help organizations provide relief.... Read more>>

AUR Campus Girls Scouts help the homeless

AUR’s Campus Girl Scouts delivered more than 50 blankets to the Caritas homeless shelter in Rome...Read more>>

Arts Prof. Breda Ennis exhibits at Temple

January 26 to February 11

Rome as Studio: Visual Arts Faculty from American University Programs... Read more>>

Open Forum with AUR alumni

Thursday, December 10th, 7.00 pm, Auriana Auditorium

An Open Forum with AUR alumni is being organized by students ... Read more>>

New York Gala Dinner in celebration of AUR's 40th anniversary

Friday, December 4th - New York, Union League Club

Leaders from business, industry and government, the arts and academe will gather at the American Society of Italian Legions of Merit (ASILM) in New York on Friday, December 4th, to celebrate the 40th anniversary... Read more>>

“Business Leaders” Series Lecture:
The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Road Ahead
by Dr. Jerry Dwyer

Monday, November 30th at 6.40 pm - Auriana Auditorium

The drivers of the financial turmoil and the Financial Crisis of 2008 were heterogeneous securities that were hard to value. These securities created concerns about counterparty risk and ultimately created substantial uncertainty. The problems spread in ways that were hard to see in advance. No doubt, with enough hindsight, the financial crisis could have been avoided. ... Read more>>

AUR Adjunct Faculty Receive Professional Development Awards
Professors Pollon, Clough-Marinaro, Marchetti and Allen Receive Funding

November 19, 2009

The AUR Faculty Development Committee announced today that the University would provide support for professional development activities to four of its adjunct faculty. Read more>>

Special Business Guest Lecture: Alumna Nina Engelhardt (Class of '04) on Strategic Marketing for Disney Consumer Products

November 19, 2009 at 12.30 - Auriana Auditorium

Nina Engelhardt (AUR '04) will be a featured speaker on the Business Department Special Guest Lectures on November 19. Nina will discuss her job as a marketer for Disney, and share insights about working in Italy... Read more>>

Third Conference on Racism

November 13, 2009 - Auriana Auditorium

The American University of Rome's Center for Research on Racism in Italy will hold its third conference on November 13, 2009 on "The Sons and Daughters of Migrants: Italy's Second Generations"... Read more>>

Alumn Sean Becker's talk "Day in the Life of an Ad Man"

November 10, 2009 at 6:40 - Auriana Auditorium

TSean Becker, AUR '93, will do an encore of his very popular "Day in the Life
> of an Ad Man" presentation, at 6:40 on Tuesday Nov. 10. He discusses life
> in the advertising business... Read more>>

Opening of Intercollegiate Soccer Tournament at AUR

Tuesday, October 20 at 8.00 pm - Auriana Auditorium

The Official opening of the 5th male and 4th female intercollegiate Soccer Tournament of Roman Universitites will be held at AUR, in the Auriana Auditorium, on Tuesday, October 20th. Read more>>

AUR mourns loss of Art History Professor

October 17, 2009

Terry Rossi Kirk Memorial Art History Scholarship has been created...Read more>>

Faculty spotlight: Professor Breda Ennis- Artist, Educator and Expert in Cultural Patrimony

October

AUR's own Breda Ennis has been quite active lately, she was recently interviewed by the Vatican Newsagency in a piece entitled “Making Spaces to Meet God’. Read more>>

October First Thursday with AUR alumni

Oct.1, 7.00 pm at AUR

Our October First Thursday will take place at AUR, on the terrace of our main building, in Via Pietro Roselli 4, from 7.00 till 9.00 pm. Thanks to alumni who came numerous to the Board of Trustees aperitivo last Thursady at the Majestic Hotel. It was great to see so many and Trustees were truly impressed. Pictures will be up on our website, alumni page, shortly.

"Inside Buffalo" FILM SHOWING

Tuesday, Sept. 29, 06.45 pm

Italo-Ghanaian director Fred Kuwornu presents and discusses his documentary film on the 92nd Division of the US Army, made of black soldiers who fought on the othic Line in Tuscany and who inspired Spike Lee's film "The Secret of St. Anna". Read more>>

AUR-ERASMUS INTERNATIONAL DINNER

Sept. 30 at 8.00 pm in the AUR garden...Read more>>

PROF. FITZSIMMONS RE-APPOINTED TO HEAD ROME GIRL SCOUTS

AUR Professor Kathleen Fitzsimmons received, on behalf of Girl Scouts of Rome, an achievement award at the recent USA Girl Scouts Overseas Global Exchange Conference. The award ...Read more>>

PROF. VILLANI'S FILM SCREENED AT BACKLOT FILM FESTIVAL IN LA

"A ticket to Hollywood" on show Oct. 9th...Read more>>

THE SEPTEMBER CONCERT

The September Concert will be held on Friday, Sept. 11, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the AUR Garden...Read more>>

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Internship Info Session - Thursday, September 10th, at 1:00 pm in Room 304

Anyone interested in future internships or in knowing about the process and requirements should attend.

For further info please contact Prof. Kathleen Fitzsimmon, E-mail: k.fitzsimmons@aur.edu, tel 06 5833 0919 ext.700

AUR BBQ

Join us on Saturday, September 5th from 11.00 am for a BBQ in the AUR garden.....Read more>>

H1N1 Flu Information

Novel H1N1 flu cases have been reported in many countries around the world, with most of the cases being reported from North America. Overall the numbers appear to be declining.....Read more>>

Vatican Journalist Joan Lewis visits AUR Marketing class

EWTN journalist Joan Lewis was a guest in the “Special Topics in Marketing and Organizational Communications” class...Read more>>

In Studio Exhibition
Summer 2009

The students from Breda Ennis's Advanced Painting I and II courses...
Read more>>

AUR Summer students hosted at The American Academy

Students in Prof. Fitzsimmons' "Special Topics in Marketing and Organizational Communications in Italy" summer course enjoyed an exclusive visit at The American Academy, with Prix di Rome winner Rosa Lowinger...Read more>>

New Media and Politics Conference Co-Sponsored by NIAF and the Villanova School of Business

Wednesday June 10 at 6.00 pm - Auriana Auditorium...Read more>>

MOU with the American University in Kosovo Signed

May 2009: MOU with the American University in Kosovo signed May 2009: The American University of Rome (AUR) and the American University of Kosovo (AUK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding...Read more>>

AUR Races for the Cure

May 2009: The American University of Rome took part in The Race for the Cure 5k run on May 17th.

Forty-three between colleagues and friends donated money for breast cancer research, raising a total of 455 Euros...Read more>>

Class of 2009 celebrates Commencement

15 May 2009: 50 AUR students from 12 different countries graduated on Friday, May 15th 2009. AUR’s Commencement Exercises were held at Villa Aurelia at 4.30 pm...Read more>>

L’Aquila summer program finds home at AUR

May 2009: Following the earthquake which hit the Abruzzo region just over a month ago, The American University of Rome has agreed to host Georgetown’s summer study abroad program, which has been relocated from L’Aquila University...Read more>>

Class of 2009 celebrates Commencement

8 May 2009: 50 students from 12 different countries will graduate on Friday, May 15th 2009...Read more>>

Art Crime
AUR Offers “Traffickers, Thieves and Forgers”
A new course on art crime open to the public

Professor Noah Charney, a world renowned expert on art crime, comes to AUR for the fall 2009 semester fresh from a run at Yale University where he just offered a highly successful course on the subject... Read more>>

Digital media Professor Palana's short wins Best Animation
Award at Smogdance Festival

May 2009: Prof. Kristen Palana’s latest animated short, Larry and Roz, won the award for Best Animation at the Smogdance Film Festival in Pomona, California...Read more>>

Prof. Breda Ennis exhibits painting at selected artists
exhibition in Frascati’s Galleria Desiree

May 2009: Studio Art Professor Breda Ennis’s five piece painting entitled “The White Mountain” has been chosen as a feature of the T+T=A - Tusculanae & Tusculani Artisti in Citta’ exhibition, held at the Galleria Desiree in Frascati, from April 4 to May 17...Read more>>

Spring Gospel Concert

April 2009: President Robert A. Marino requests the pleasure of your company for The Amazing Grace Gospel Choir...Read more>>

AUR raises donation for Abruzzo earthquake victims

April 2009: AUR was able to raise more than 500 euros in less than two hours from staff, faculty, and students to help victims of the earthquake which rocked the Abruzzo region in the early hours of April 6th...Read more>>

3RD ANNUAL GIRLS CALCETTO CHAMPIONSHIP

7 April 2009: The AUR She-Wolves competed for third place in the Annual Girls Calcetto Championship at the Palazzetto Dello Sport in Fiumicino...Read more>>

AUR’s Cultural Cooperation Project Debuts

20 April 2009: The American University of Rome’s Cultural Cooperation project debuts as part of the City of Rome’s “Comitato Cittadino per la Cooperazione Decentrata” (CCCD)...Read more>>

Representations of Diversity:
Racism and the Media in Italy

April 2009: The American University of Rome’s Center for Research on Racism in Italy held its second one-day conference on April 3, 2009 on the topic of representations of minorities and migrants in the Italian mass media...Read more>>

LIFE BEGINS AT 40.
LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE.

April 2009: AUR celebrated 40 years of service with a huge party for staff, faculty, and students on April 15, 2009. The beautiful Campus garden was filled with over 100 people, proudly commemorating the occasion on a very sunny spring day...Read more>>

Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Revolution”

April 2009: January 2009 saw the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and February the 30th of the Iranian, and July will make 220 for the French. Scientifically we are celebrating Darwin’s birth and the publication of The Origin of the Species...Read more>>

Representations of Diversity:
Racism and the Media in Italy

April 2009: The American University of Rome’s Center for Research on Racism in Italy held its second one-day conference on April 3, 2009 on the topic of representations of minorities and migrants in the Italian mass media...Read more>>

Quali Film Conference: AUR at Roma Tre University

March 2009: A group of AUR students attended the conference QUALI FILM, co-sponsored by our institution jointly with the Roma Tre University and Loyola University, Rome Center, and impeccably hosted by Roma Tre at its Via Ostiense campus last March 18 and19...Read more>>

Campus Girl Scouts represent Ghana at World Thinking Day

March 2009: AUR's Campus Girl Scouts represented Ghana in the recent Rome celebration of World Thinking Day, a tradition of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts...Read more>>

AUR Students travel to Kosovo

3 March 2009: Thirty AUR students traveled to Kosovo for a packed four day field studies trip to learn about the area...Read more>>

Lincoln and the Italian Imagination

23 February 2009: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born 200 years ago, on 12 Feb 1809...Read more>>

AUR students meet Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi

16 and 17 February 2009: A delegation of AUR students had the privilege of being invited to meet Nancy Pelosi and her delegation on February 16 and 17 during an official visit to Rome...Read more>>

Embassy Marine Attachè visits Strategic Management Class

February 2009: U.S. Embassy Marine Attachè Lt. Colonel Justin Wisdom visited recently with the senior Business students and their professor, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, in their capstone course, Strategic Management...Read more>>

AUR student Madeline Feicht gets Oxford and LSE offers

February 2009: International Relations student Madeleine Feicht has been offered places to read for a 1 year Msc in Social Anthropology by both Oxford University and the London School of Economics, in the UK, subject to pass BA degree of 3.6 GPA or above...Read more>>

"First Thursday with AUR alumni" event was launched

Our "First Thursday with AUR alumni" event was launched on Thursday, February 5 at the Cantina Paradiso Winebar in Trastevere...Read more>>

Dir. of UN Outreach Programme visits AUR

5 February 2009: Eric Falt, the Director of the Outreach Division in the Department of Public Information spoke to a group of AUR Students about opportunities and threats in the United Nations and urged students to get to know the UN through internships and volunteer work...Read more>>

CALL FOR PAPERS
Representations of Diversity: Racism and the Media in Italy

4 February 2009: The American University of Rome’s Center for Research on Racism in Italy will hold its second one-day conference on April 3, 2009 on the topic of representations of minorities and migrants in the Italian mass media...Read more>>

Teaching and Learning Center Launch

4 February 2009: The AUR Teaching and Learning Center will be launched on Thursday 5th February (12.30 – 13.55)...Read more>>

AUR’s Sixth Ghana Field Study Course

January 2009: A group of AUR students led by International Relations Prof. James Walston successfully completed AUR’s Sixth Ghana Field Study Course as part of the AUR’s broader Africa program which includes research and cooperation projects...Read more>>

Notes from Biz alumna, Bronwyn Sweeney

“The Creative Circus is a school that offers two year programs in Art Direction, Photography, Design and Copywriting for students who wish to pursue a career in Advertising. The classes are taught by people who are highly involved in the Advertising industry right now and do not use text books to teach material...Read more>>

2008 alumna Dana Phelps accepted at Cultural Heritage
program of 7th top university in the world

23 January 2009: Art History alumna Dana Phelps, who graduated Cum Laude in 2008, was overjoyed at the recent news of an offer to attend UCL (University College London)’s Cultural Heritage Studies program..."Read more>>

Alumn Kris Jorens reports back from
the Nanjing AURA program

January 2009: Kris Jorens, who graduated in Communication in 2007, is spending the 2008-9 year at Nanjing University, where he is attending the AURA program...Read more>>

For information regarding upcoming events,
please see the AUR calendar.