ACT News

ACT organised a workshop titled: ‘Trauma in Greek Society: Historical and Contemporary Facets’ on 20 November 2014, from 13:00 to 18:00. The theme of the workshop falls into the broad category of trauma and the rising field of trauma studies. The workshop was linked to a ‘Greek trauma’ internally funded research project undertaken by Drs.

On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 17:00-18:30 at the Bissell Library, the American College of Thessaloniki hosted a presentation on ‘The Monsters of Ancient Greek Mythology’ organized by the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and coordinated by Dr. Nikos Dimitriadis, who teaches the course of Ancient Greek Mythology at ACT.
 

The second cohort of VentureGarden has begun:
 
On Friday the 11th of July 2014 the registration period for the second round of the training program “VentureGarden”  finished and the program received 111 applications.  The applications were mainly from Thessaloniki and the broader region.
The first evaluation stage was in September 2014 where all 111 applicants were interviewed and 67 were selected to advance to the second stage.  
 

Fall 2014 at ACT will see the largest cohort of US students studying at ACT at any one time to this day. Almost 300 students will arrive on campus for the Study Abroad two day Orientation on the 18th and 19th of September, which includes sessions on academic matters, student life, health and safety, life in Thessaloniki and an extensive Anatolia campus tour. Within the first couple of weeks these students will also be introduced to the Anatolia/ACT staff, ACT faculty and other students.

Γνωρίστε το American College of Thessaloniki
Παρασκευή 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2014, 17:30, ACT, Πυλαία, Θεσσαλονίκη
 

Την ολοκλήρωση των σπουδών τους και ενός σημαντικού κεφαλαίου της ζωής τους γιόρτασαν οι τελειόφοιτοι πτυχιακοί και μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές του American College of Thessaloniki / ACT, μέλους του Κολλεγίου Ανατόλια. Η Τελετή Αποφοίτησης πραγματοποιήθηκε στο υπαίθριο Αμφιθέατρο του ACT και κατά τη διάρκειά της βραβεύτηκαν οι φοιτητές, που διακρίθηκαν για τις ακαδημαϊκές τους επιδόσεις και εκείνοι που ξεχώρισαν με την ενεργό συμμετοχή τους στις αθλητικές και εξωσχολικές δραστηριότητες του μη κερδοσκοπικού εκπαιδευτικού οργανισμού.

The Dukakis Center celebrated fifteen years of public service initiatives in Thessaloniki during the Spring 2014 semester with a Festival of Civic and Urban Culture.
 

For the past two years the Dukakis Center has been offering special honors programming for high achieving ACT undergraduates.
 
The project was launched in September 2012, when Dr Maria Patsarika was invited to conduct a series of honors seminars for select incoming freshmen. The freshmen honors cohort attended bi-weekly seminars in their first semester, and were then offered the opportunity to undertake short-term projects in their second term.
 

The 29th annual conference on Computing and Philosophy will be held at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki, Greece.
 
We expect ca. 80 researchers from around the world; half from Europe and half from the Americas and Asia.
http://www.pt-ai.org/iacap/2014/registered-participants
 
Some of the problems discussed are:
- What can computers do?
- Is the human brain a computer and is thinking computing?

ACT is offering two Portfolio & Investments Management courses: one at the undergraduate program available to all business major students, and one at the MBA program available to finance & banking concentration students, both taught by Dr. Nikolas Hourvouliades.
 
During these courses the students are given the opportunity to manage their own mock portfolios. The final goal is to end up with the highest possible return while simultaneously explain their investment rationale. Students work in pairs at the undergraduate course and individually at the MBA.