[…]DEREE = 59-50 Men’s Rugby (Friendly): DEREE – ATTICA SPRINGBOKS = 5-5/10-10/5-5 “ACG 2019 INTERNATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL” (MARCH 28-30) On March 28-30, 2019, almost 700 student-athletes representing 12 universities from 6 countries (Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Italy) competed in Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Table-Tennis, Swimming, Soccer, Water-Polo and in Futsal. Participating Universities: 1. ACG – DEREE-THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE 2. AUB – AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BEIRUT 3. LAU BE– LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, BEIRUT CAMPUS 4. AUC – AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO 5. AUS – AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH 6. QAT – QATAR FOUNDATION-EDUCATION CITY 7. JCU […]
[…]50/50: Gender Equality, at the WIFT Film Festivalin Athens in 2018; and at the58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2017. Her short-fiction film To taméno(Offered boy), was also presented in the official selection of the 56thCannes Film Festival, and in the official selection of many other international film festivals worldwide. It was also the Greek Film Centre’s entry for the European Academy Awards-Felix. Among her various striking artistic creations over the years, Ms. Makris is also known for her version for the stage of the emblematic work of renowned poet Yannis Ritsos, La sonate au clair de lune,commissioned by the […]
[…]at the Onassis Foundation (USA) in New York for 12 years, where she organized and coordinated international, multidisciplinary academic programs and special events involving hundreds of scholars, artists, and over 500 University Departments, Research Centers, Thinktanks, museums, and other major educational and cultural institutions across North, Central, and South America. Currently, she is an Associate Lecturer at Deree-The American College of Greece, teaching courses in Professional and Interpersonal Communication. Selected Publication “The Business of Social Change: Gender and the Ethnic Enclave Economy in the Greek Immigrant Community in Astoria”. pp. 67-81. Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives. Evangelia Tastsoglou, editor. Lexington […]
[…]‘Cool Schools’ list for 2021! The American College of Greece (ACG) ranked 92nd among the 328 international colleges and universities included in this year’s list. With a total score of 66.98, ACG surpassed institutions such as MIT, Yale, New York University, Columbia, Tufts and Boston University. ACG cohabits the list with other prestigious colleges and universities, namely Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Clarkson University, etc. “We are proud to be recognized once again as a ‘Cool School’ by Sierra Magazine for our sustainability efforts. This achievement reflects our commitment to educate our community (students, faculty, and staff) in becoming engaged and responsible […]
Seven DEREE students from the US and Greece Complete the Athens Classic Marathon Six international students at DEREE – The American College of Greece, all from the United States, reaped an unexpected gift from their stay in Greece by participating in this year’s 31st Athens Classic Marathon, the annual 42-kilometer (26.5-mile) race that traces the original route from the town of Marathon to the center of Athens. They all made it to the finish and dedicated their run to a classmate, Stephanie Nedzweckas a fellow study-abroad student from Endicott College, who was not able to compete because of an injury […]
[…]and ACG students from the Environmental Studies Society, the Biomedical Sciences Society, the International Honors Program and ACG […]
[…]March, the Deree MUN Club visited Italy for the Harvard World Model United Nations 2016, the most internationally diverse college-level Model UN conference, with over 2,000 university students from over 115 countries attending each year. In a grand opening ceremony, Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi welcomed the international delegates to Rome, and was followed by an Italian orchestra and choir performing the awarded charity single “We Are the World.” Deree student Pavlos Zoumbouloglou said, “delegates from all corners of this earth were singing as a whole, as if we had known each other for years!” To take a break from […]
[…]Catsambas was president of the American Evaluation Association in 2019. In 2015, she received the International EvalPartners Award in recognition of her “leadership, creativity, and exceptional contributions to the global evaluation community.” Ms. Catsambas holds a bachelor’s in economics and political science from the College of Wooster and a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is bilingual in Greek and English and fluent in French. What are three enduring values Pierce has taught you? Over my six years as a high-school student at Pierce, the school kept cultivating an awareness of […]
[…]to meet client needs. Before Ogilvy, his entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Vatera.com, an international online auction platform. His career also includes shaping global marketing initiatives for iconic brands like Apple, Motorola, and Adobe during his time at “Planet Leap” ad agency in New York. His passion for Advertising is rooted in a strong academic foundation. Christos holds a BA in International Relations from Panteion University of Athens and an MA in Integrated Marketing Communications from Emerson College in Boston. He has also served on the Board of Directors for both the Hellenic Association of Communications Agencies (EDEE) and […]
[…]is shown with todays ‘Green-Pass’ protests (in which citizens protest the government’s policy for COVID-19 containment) have sprouted all over Italy, such as in Trieste and in Rome. Levels of trust have also been found to differ between age groups and due to a lack of proper leadership. It is vital and necessary to have better understandings behind the loss of public trust towards the scientific community and health authorities to better predict future behaviours of the public in future pandemics. Furthermore, understanding reasons for loss or gaining in trust is crucial for health authorities to better communicate their reasoning […]
