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Thursday August 16

Pre-Departure Orientation Session in Bratislava
6:00pm

Saturday August 11

Online Pre-Departure Orientation Session in Warsaw
7:00pm

Friday August 10

Pre-Departure Orientation Session in Lahore
6:00pm

Saturday August 04

Pre-Departure Orientation Session in Warsaw
7:00pm
Pre-Departure Orientation Session and Alumni Reunion in New York
4:00pm

Challenge Accepted: “Lucky Charm” Tradition Takes Root

September 17, 2018
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Alumni
Alumni Campaign News

For the second year in a row, new students have trekked to the CEU rooftop to wish for good fortune on CEU’s own “lucky charm.”

And for one group of students, it paid off.

Last Friday students from the MESPOM program (pictured) won the university’s second annual Lucky Charm Challenge – and scored some cool CEU-branded gear from the Alumni Relations office.

The charm is a bronze orb embedded in the rooftop Kharkiv Terrace, honoring CEU alumnus and benefactor Konstantin Kurganov (LEGS ’94) and designed by his daughter Olesia.

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Alumna, Chapter Leader Zemtsova Passes

August 17, 2018
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Alumni

We are saddened to report that CEU alumna Oxana Zemtsova (HIST ’07) passed away in July after a prolonged illness. She was 41. 

Oxana is survived by her husband and two sons. She worked as a researcher and lived in Prato, Italy, where she also served as CEU’s national alumni chapter leader.

 Our deepest condolences to Oxana’s family, friends and fellow alumni.

 

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Alumna Urge-Vorsatz Tapped as European Climate Sciences Expert

July 13, 2018
Alumni
Alumni Stories

CEU Professor and alumna Diana Urge-Vorsatz (ENVS '92) was tapped by Nobel Laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for his Climate Reality leadership corps training in Berlin.

See full story. 

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Alumnus Miljan Publishes Book

July 11, 2018
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Alumni
Alumni Stories

Alumnus and historian Goran Miljan (HIST MA '09; PhD '16) recently published his book Croatia and the Rise of Fascism: the Youth Movement and the Ustasha During WWII.

In early 2016 he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, "Young, Militarized, and Radical: The Ustasha Youth Organization, Ideology, and Practice, 1941-1945” with Summa Cum Laude. Congratulations, Goran! 

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Help Guide CEU's Next Generation, Worldwide

June 27, 2018
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Alumni

The CEU community is getting bigger all the time. And now, it’s time to help welcome the university’s new cohort!

Students from 86 countries worldwide will be arriving at CEU this September (see map, below). The top ten countries with the highest number of new students are Hungary, U.S.A., Turkey, Russia, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Germany, Ukraine and Serbia.

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