American Univesity of Beirut

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​As part of the Spring 2021-22 Virtual New Student Orientation Program​, the Graduate Council will be holding a general orientation session for all graduate students with the aim of introducing them to the particulars of their graduate experience at AUB.

The program is highly informative even for former AUB students as it is customized for the graduate experience and features new services and requirements related to your studies, research and campus life. It will consist of a set of presentations followed by a question/answer session with the presenters.

Join Us Online

The session will take place via WebEx; you may want to make sure that you can access WebEx meetings through one of the means available per this page. To access the meeting, you must register here first. Although here is no registration deadline, it is advisable that you register early.

Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Beirut Time)

Registering/Joining: The link to register and access the meeting is the same; registering beforehand is advisable.

A reording of the event is now available at this link.

Program and Theme

The theme of the orienation program is "The Essence and Essentials of the Graduate Experience". It will be a roundtable panel in which panelists from the AUB units below will be introducing their services and the opportunities they offer as well as key insights and advice all in in an effort to enhance your graduate experience.
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AUB Unit	Representative
Round Table Panel 1: Graduate Student Life
​GradEx​	Kamal Abou Mikhael (Moderator)​
​​Office of Student Affairs (OSA)	​Lina Choueiri​
Equity/Title IX	Mitra Tauk
​Office of International Programs (OIP)	Hala Dimechkie​
Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS)	Sarah Kouzi
Rou​nd Table Panel 2: Graduate Academic Life
​Graduate Council (GC)	Kamal Abou Mikhael (Moderator)​
University Libraries (UL)	Nabila Shehabeddine
The Writing Center​ (WrC)	Amy Zenger
​Institutional Review Board (IRB)	​Lina Onsi
​​Office of Information Technology​ (IT)	​Vassili Valerik