CEU Alumni News

Czakó Named to Forbes List of the 50 Most Influential Women in Hungary

April 9, 2015
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The Hungarian edition of Forbes magazine named CEU alumna Borbála Czakó (IMC '90), global partner at Ernst & Young, one of the 50 most influential women in business in Hungary. Czakó earned an MBA from CEU Business School in 1990, and won CEU’s 20th Anniversary Alumni Hero award in 2011.

Alumni and Students Rock Open Mic Show

April 3, 2015
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Approximately 100 CEU students and alumni got together for a jam session during CEU’s Open Mic Show, Thursday, April 2nd at the CEU School of Public Policy building. (Check the pics.) 

Thanks to the dozens of performers who enlivened the evening with their music, dance and spoken word performances. The event was sponsored by the CEU Student Life Office, the Center for Arts and Culture and the Alumni Relations team.

POLS Alumnus Renwick Tapped for UCL Spot

March 19, 2015
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Dr. Alan Renwick (POLS ’97 MA, ’98 MPhil) will begin work in September as Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit of the University College of London’s Department of Political Science.

An expert in electoral systems and reforms, Dr. Renwick described his new appointment as “a match made in heaven.”

He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Reading, and has previously held numerous academic positions at the University of Oxford.

Recruitment up, thanks to alumni

February 26, 2015

New student recruitment at CEU is up, thanks in part to alumni!

CEU alumni and local area coordinators, as well as academic departments and students were credited with contributing to the increase in recruitment numbers this year. 

At the end of the first application cycle, the Student Recruitment Office reports a significant rise in the number of applications to CEU’s master’s and doctoral programs. The number of applications and applicants has risen by nearly 30% compared to the final figures from last year.

Svetlana Poleschuk earns fifth Silitski Scholarship

February 12, 2015
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CEU student Svetlana Poleschuk (SOCI '15) is the latest recipient of the Vitali Silitski Memorial Belarusian Alumni Scholarship. 

Furnished by donations from Belarusian alumni, the supplementary scholarship will help support her research, titled “Controversy Over the Public Sphere in the 'Last Dictatorship of Europe.'"

Svetlana's research is intended to "explore the phenomenon of public lectures in Minsk that are referred by many as a unprecedented 'communication explosion'."