AUS EcoRep students win third place in Dubai Investments’ Acting on Plastic Competition
A team of four students from American University of Sharjah (AUS) has been awarded third place in the first edition of the Acting on Plastic Universities Competition. The UAE-based competition was organized by Dubai Investments and calls for integrated...
American University of Sharjah (AUS) continues to raise its environmental credentials, with the past 12 months seeing the university achieve a number of sustainability-related successes. In January, AUS became the Gulf region's first university to begin to...
Complexity is the new normal: How AUS Executive Education is using complexity to help advance policy making
American University of Sharjah’s (AUS) Executive Education is working with government agencies throughout the UAE to help them advance their workforces’ policy making skills and respond to the current needs of their stakeholders. Members of the university’s...
American University of Sharjah (AUS) Sustainability was honored with the Outstanding Sustainable Campus award at the Environment and Protected Areas Authority (EPAA) 7th Sharjah Sustainability Award (SSA) on April 18. The award was granted to the best...
Faculty members from AUS and NYUAD team up on plastic recycling research
American University of Sharjah (AUS) Sustainability recently hosted the second lecture in its Sustainability Speaker Series. Felix Beck, Assistant Professor of Practice of Design at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), presented NYUAD’s Plastic Recycling Research Lab to a...
AUS holds session on sustainable transport as part of Sustainability Panel Series
Experts from various disciplines discussed sustainable transport in the UAE and the region in a special session held recently at American University of Sharjah (AUS). The discussion, held as part of the Sustainability Panel Series, featured a number of...
Blue Building technology adopted at AUS, energy and water savings at 80 percent
Modification works are being carried out on the first four villas built at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in 1997 using Blue Building technology - creating up to 80 percent savings in water and energy consumption each year The Blue Building Concept...
AUS students win accolades in Sharjah Environmental Sustainability Award
Winners of the fifth edition of the Sharjah Environmental Sustainability Award - in the Applied Scientific Research category - were announced recently with civil and chemical engineering majors from American University of Sharjah (AUS) emerging victorious for...
AUS achieves ISO certificate for sustainability initiatives
American University of Sharjah (AUS) has achieved the ISO 14001 certificate, after having successfully implemented a framework to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste and drive down costs. To celebrate this achievement, Vilhelm Paus Hedberg, Managing...
