CEU Octagon / 2017-18 1st Edition
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Welcome to The Octagon, a newsletter for CEU's donors and friends.

They’re Here: CEU Alumni Scholarship Recipients
Meet This Year's Alumni Scholarship Recipients
Twenty-six students from around the world are studying at CEU this year thanks to the Alumni Scholarship. Read more...

CEU Hosts Nobel Laureate Cognitive Scientists

Three Nobel laureates and a Brain Prize winner, John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, and Gyorgy Buzsaki, respectively, spoke at CEU on Aug. 31 at a neuroscience symposium hosted by the Dept. of Cognitive Science. Read more...

CEU Workshop on Gendered Impacts of the War on Drugs

The Global Policy Academy hosted an OSF-sponsored conference on the impact of drug policies on women with an all-female, international panel. Article / Video...

iLab Named Best Incubator in Hungary

CEU InnovationsLab was named Best Accelerator and Incubator in Hungary at the Central European Startup Awards competition and will represent Hungary in the CES Awards finale. Read more...

In Memoriam: Alfred Stepan, 1936-2017

Alfred Stepan, CEU's first President and Rector, renowned comparative political scientist and most recently Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, has passed away. Read more...

Alumna Co-Authors WaPo Piece on Origins of Populism

Evgeniia Iakhnis (IR '12) on new poll showing populism stems not from economic distress but perceptions of how groups fare in society. Article...

CMDS Wins Google Funding for Media Ownership Tool  

With a grant from Google's DNI Fund, the Center for Media, Data and Society will develop a tool for tracking and analyzing media ownership in Hungary according to political ties, ideology. Read more...

Ordinary Virtues Help Create Moral Order, Promote Open Society, Ignatieff Says

The Christian Science Monitor points to President Ignatieff's new book The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World as a new approach to curbing atrocities. Read more...

New Romani Studies Program Launches

CEU celebrated the launch of its new Romani Studies Program in October. Maria Dumitru, an RGPP student, spoke to the crowd about the opportunities given to her and other Roma by CEU: "I don't think education should be a privilege, but a right for everyone." Read more...
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Awards and Distinctions
Students and Alumni
New Releases from CEU Press, Faculty and Alumni
Upcoming Rethinking Open Society Talks (More...)

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The Octagon newsletter is named for and inspired by an iconic space within CEU's campus where students, faculty, and friends can gather to exchange ideas and foster community.
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