Alumni News

CEU Alumna Tregub Appointed Secretary General of Independent Defense Anti-Corruption Committee

October 11, 2017
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Alumna and CEU Alumni Impact Award winner Olena Tregub (POLS '05) has been appointed Secretary General of the Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Committee (NAKO), a joint initiative of Transparency International Defence and Security (the UK) and the Ukrainian chapter of Transparency International.

CEU Alumni Meet President and Rector Ignatieff in Warsaw

October 11, 2017
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More than 30 CEU alumni and friends – graduates of classes 1992 to 2017 - met for the first time with President and Rector Michael Ignatieff at Warsaw’s Batory Foundation on Thursday, Oct. 5. See photos.

CEU Alumnae Appointed Kyrgyz PM’s Advisers

September 19, 2017
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CEU alumnae Bermet Tursunkulova (IRES’99), left, and Yulia Kalinichenko (IRES’13), right, were recently appointed as advisors to Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov. 

CEU Alumni Offer “Words of Wisdom” to Newly Arrived Students

September 18, 2017
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Alumni in Budapest and beyond had welcoming words for this year’s cadre of new students.

Alumni “words of wisdom” were printed on small scrolls and shared with hundreds of new arrivals at CEU’s annual Welcome Afternoon, on Friday Sept. 8.

 The scrolls contained individual messages of encouragement and advice from dozens of alums from around the world to students now beginning classes here.

 “Don’t worry,” one read. “Once you have arrived you will become members of the big CEU family.”

In His Own Words: Bojan Aleksov

July 23, 2017
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A two-time graduate of the CEU Department of History, Dr. Bojan Aleksov (MA '99, PhD '05) is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Southeast European History at University College London (UCL). He is the author of Religious Dissent in the Age of Modernization and Nationalism: Nazarenes in Hungary and Serbia 1850-1914, a volume based upon his CEU PhD dissertation, among numerous other works.