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AUB company history timeline

1943

1943: First Student Council elected.

1950

1950: Women's Auxiliary established.

1950, bonds sold for natural gas service, with distribution beginning the following year.

1952

1952: US first lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits AUB.

1952: The Alumni Club was built behind the AUB hospital.

1955

1955: AUB issues first Mission Statement.

1958

1958: AUB is a site for the first open-heart surgery in Lebanon and the Middle East.

1964

In 1964, AUB moves to its first standalone offices at 555 Fifth Avenue.

1965

1965: AUB Professors Constantine Issidorides and Makhluf Haddadin discover the "Beirut Reaction," a chemical reaction that has led to the development of hundreds of antibacterial and anticancer drugs.

1971

1971: First kidney transplant performed at AUBMC.

1981

1981: AUB Outdoors held for the first time with almost 1,000 participants.

1985

AUB Group first opened for business in 1985, initially operating under the company name of Austbrokers Holdings Limited.

1995

1995: Annual Science Mathematics and Technology Fair held for the first time.

1999

1999: College Hall reopens.

2000

A business school was established in 2000.

2001

2001: AUB announces 20-year Campus Master Plan.

2002

2002: Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon opens at AUBMC.

2007

2007: AUB opens the Abu Haidar Neuroscience Institute.

2008

2008: Former US President Jimmy Carter speaks at AUB.

2010

2010: AUB launches Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program.

2011

2011: AUB establishes the Arabic Regional Center for Research and Training in Mental Health.

2012

2012: Farouk K. Jabre Center for Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy was established.

2014

2014: AUB announces largest gift in its history, donation of $32 million form Jamal Daniel and the Levant Foundation toward the University's Medical Center expansion.

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