Melody Gilbert will be the new chair of the Journalism and Mass Communications department at AUBG starting form July 2013. The news came out on April 18 at the JMC Rocks 10^th anniversary cocktail party, when the current department chair Professor Dinka Spirovska expressed her satisfaction with the work done up until now and her gratitude to everyone in JMC. She then announced that she will be stepping down from the position pretty soon. Continue reading…

The AUBG community honored the memory of students, members of faculty and alumni we lost over the past year. The Remembrance Day took place on Wednesday, March 13, in the yard between BAC and the Student Center.  Continue reading…

“Good creative ideas do not come out of thin air,” said Anna Stilianaki, Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather Sofia at a presentation this Tuesday, February 26 in Andrey Delchev Auditorium. The event was facilitated by Professor Milena Nikolova from the Department of Business at AUBG and the Business Club. The Ogilvy representatives shared with students what kind of insight is needed to generate truly good ideas. Continue reading…

An upcoming book of the non-fiction genre was presented fresh out the printing presses in front of the AUBG community on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Panitza Library. The author is Professor Nancy Bartley, a long-time journalist, scholar from the Fulbright Faculty Exchange Program and currently a part of the JMC Department at AUBG. Continue reading…

Innovation that matters and the people behind it were the main topics of discussion at the IBM presentation that took place on Wednesday, Feb. 6, in Andrey Delchev Auditorium. The event was facilitated by the Business Club. Continue reading…

The first ever OpenCoffee event organized by the StartUP@Blagoevgrad team happened Saturday, January 28, in Piano Bar Limited. As StartUP President Ivaylo Shipochky put it, the beginning was “humble but promising.” Continue reading…

Social differences, the virtue of the poor and the menace of the rich – we have seen it all. Student actors put a truly positive spin on what could easily turn into a preacher. With their version of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle they managed to convey before the audience’s eyes the many forms of goodness in the midst of a crisis. Continue reading…

This week we will see the revival of an old tradition for AUBG-ers or how AURA will turn your regular Tuesday night out into an “initiative.” Eight teams, four rounds of drinking games and a prize at the end is what makes Aura Drinking Initiative a true AUBG specialty. Continue reading…

A discussion on the role of the entrepreneurship culture in AUBG was facilitated on Wednesday, November 21, by the StartUP@Blagoevgrad team. The talk focused on the need that the Business students have to accept working on a business idea of their own as an option for career. Continue reading…

Focus groups discussing the issues around recruiting new AUBG-ers were organized with students this Thursday, November 8. The same event is taking place in Sofia on Saturday, November 10, this time with alumni participating. The groups were organized by Admissions office and Dean of Faculty Lucia Miree as a response to developing concerns within the AUBG community about the decreasing quality of freshman classes.