All Things 150
“All Things 150” List
In 2015 AUB awards an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters) to world-renowned director of opera, theater, and film Peter Sellars. Other DHL recipients in the arts include Yo Yo Ma (2004), Farouz (2005), Youssef Chahine (2007), Mona Hatoum (2008), Majida El Roumi (2009), Dourade Al Laham (2010),…
In 2015 AUB awards an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters) to world-renowned director of opera, theater, and film Peter Sellars. Other DHL recipients in the arts include Yo Yo Ma (2004), Farouz (2005), Youssef Chahine (2007), Mona Hatoum (2008), Majida El Roumi (2009), Dourade Al Laham (2010), Marcel Khalifé (2011), Faten Hamama (2013), and Saloua Raouda Choucair (2014).
The first cash contribution to the SPC endowment is made in 1863 by an anonymous resident of Jewett City, Connecticut, who donated a gold dollar coin.
AUB provides campus housing for women for the first time with the opening of the Murex and Jewett dormatories in 1960.
The Alumni Association is formed in 1923.
In 1947 Joseph J. MacDonald establishes the first residency program in surgery modeled after existing programs in the United States.
In 1865 SPC's George Post uses inhalation anesthesia in Lebanon for the first time by administering chloroform to a dog.
The AUB Choir is the product of one man's vision and an abundance of AUB musical talent. In 1993 organist Robert Brenton Betts revives and expands upon the AUB Choir after a decade of dormancy. Dr. Betts was also director of the Civilization Sequence Program.
AUB hosts first Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA) in 1951.
Dr. Naji Abumrad (BA '66, MD '71) is the father of 2011 MacArthur Fellow (genius grant recipient) and "Radiolab" host Jad Abumrad.
In 1982 the Office of Research and External Programs grew out of the AUB Service Corporation (AUBSCO) and the Research and Development Administrative Center (RADAC). It is now called the Office of Regional External Programs. REP provides AUB expertise in consulting and technical assistance to regional governments and…
In 1982 the Office of Research and External Programs grew out of the AUB Service Corporation (AUBSCO) and the Research and Development Administrative Center (RADAC). It is now called the Office of Regional External Programs. REP provides AUB expertise in consulting and technical assistance to regional governments and institutions.