AUC Professor Blase Donadio decided on the spur of the moment to buy a car during his three-day stopover in Rome, managing to bring it back to AUC with him. When he arrived, he described the students' excitement: "The students were all agog to see the miracle car that was brought from Rome in six days. They immediately baptized her Zarifa, an all-inclusive name meaning anything from hellish to angelic.

Digitizing Heritage
AUC is preserving and digitizing a rare collection of newly acquired Arabic and Islamic manuscripts.