Alumni News

Alumni Raise More Than $1 Million for CEU

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The results are in, history's been made – and CEU alumni have outdone themselves!

Alumni donors successfully closed CEU's Alumni Campaign last month by contributing $35,000 in excess of the campaign's $1 million goal. SEE FINAL STATS.

Alumnus Kounalakis Earns Second Presidential Appointment

January 13, 2017
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CEU alumnus Markos Kounalakis (IRES PhD, ’16) was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. This is his second presidential appointment in recent months.

Alumna Sarkisova Publishes Soviet 'Kulturfilm' Book

January 5, 2017
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CEU alumna Oksana Sarkisova (NATI ’98 MA, HIST ’05 PhD) recently published her book “Screening Soviet Nationalities: Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia.”

CEU Philanthropy Day: Giving is Sweet

November 28, 2016
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Nearly 200 members of the CEU community – students and alumni, faculty and staff – came together this month to learn just how sweet fundraising for good causes can be.

As part of CEU's fourth annual Philanthropy Day, on Friday, November 11, the community raised more than 180,000 HUF in support of student scholarships and refugee assistance.

Prună 2nd CEU Alumna to Head Romanian Justice Ministry

November 25, 2016
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Raluca Alexandra Prună (POLS '98) has served as Romania's Minister of Justice since November 2015. She is the second CEU alumna to hold the post, after alumna and CEU Board of Trustees Member Monica Macovei (LEGS '93), who served from 2004 to 2007.

Prior to her appointment, Raluca served in numerous unit leadership roles within the European Commission, dealing with topics including organized crime, surveillance, migration flows and free movement of goods and others.