Think Paragliding... At twenty-three, the Acro Twins are already the top-ranking acrobatic paragliding pilots in the US. At three years old, they had already clocked up skiing as their first extreme sport. Then came waterskiing, closely followed by paragliding. Early developers, Tim and Anthony Green, alias the Acro Twins…
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Éditorial
Dear Members of the AUP Alumni Community,
It is with pleasure and much excitement that we send you this first online edition of the AUP Magazine. This new version of the magazine will still continue to carry all your favorite features – lead stories from campus, student and alumni profiles, the “syllabus” section starring a choice reading list…
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ALUMNI
Latest news from AUP Alumni, from a leading non-profit rehabilitation training program for blind people, to writing novels, screenplays and cookbooks, to celebrating a 10th wedding anniversary in Jamaica, to developing the website and blog of an e-boutique start-up...
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On Campus
On October 17-18 The American University of Paris hosted the international conference “European Readings of Abraham Lincoln, His Times & Legacy.” The occasion was the Lincoln Bicentennial. This was the first time ever that a conference on the sixteenth American president had been held in France, and only the second time in Europe…
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Arts Arena
July 4 came with an exceptional opportunity for the Arts Arena which was asked to be a partner in the Man on the Moon photo show at the Palais de Tokyo, one of Paris' major museums, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The show, which ran until September 20, had 65,000 visitors, and the Arts Arena is hoping to take it to other countries in the coming year...
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Combes Gallery
Coming from the United States, Europe, or the First World it is difficult to imagine the lives of children impacted by AIDS in Ethiopia. Vision du Monde, a non-governmental relief, development, and advocacy organization brought an exhibit and a message to the Combes Gallery. On display during most of October, the exhibition of Ethiopian Children…
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Syllabus
As governments and central banks of the world continue the fight against a global economic recession that has been the deepest since the Great Depression of the1930’s, there has been a renewed interest in economic policy-making and the debates that surround it. For this reason, there has never been a better time to be a student in economics and its broad array of sub-disciplines. Consider, for example, implications of the policy response in the U.S. to the financial crisis.…
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