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For the 5th consecutive year, the American College of Thessaloniki organizes its Summer Music Performance Program in collaboration with Georgia State University, the Music Society of Macedonia and under the auspices of the Regional Authority of Central Macedonia. The program consists of Master Classes (piano, flute, violin, cello, voice/opera, composition,… More

A group of 10 students from Salem State University in Massachusetts visited Thessaloniki in late May with their Professor, Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, to observe local and European elections and learn first hand about politics and electioneering in Greece. The Dukakis Center, in the persons of Director David Wisner and ACT alumnus… More

On Wednesday evening, May 22, the public screening of the iconic film Thelma and Louise (directed by Ridley Scott in 1991) served as a prompt for an open discussion at Ypsilon Café. The event was organized by the English Department of ACT as part of the continuous efforts by ACT’s BA in English… More

To mark the completion of the first academic year of the reintroduction of the Psychology degree, ACT offered two wellness workshops to its students. The workshops were held at the end of May and aimed to help the students in view of their final exams.The first workshop was coordinated by… More

Exciting opportunities are available for psychology undergraduate students to get hands-on learning and valuable research experience. While most students tend to complete internships during their junior or senior years, ACT’s Psychology Program offers internship opportunities with site supervisors from the first year of studies to increase competitiveness in the job market and support students… More

Known for being passionate in promoting Science Asteris Grigoroudis is ready to spread his enthusiasm for Chemistry to young students. Asteris Grigoroudis, a Chemistry instructor at ACT, studied Chemistry and received a doctoral degree in Biochemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since then, he has evolved as an avid… More

In 2014 Jana Arsovska was named one of the Top 25 criminal justice professors in the US by the leading forensic sciences website ForensicsColleges.com noting that “the professors on this list have gone above and beyond in terms of leadership and professional contributions.” On the 2nd of July, she is… More

On Monday, June 10, 5:30 PM, Dukakis Center organizes in Athens a lecture by Jeffrey A. Engel from Southern Methodist University (SMU). The event will take place at the Office of the European Parliament in Greece - Steki Room (Amalias 8 & Xenofondos Str).. In 1988 George Herbert Walker Bush… More

The Dukakis Center is tuning 20!To launch our birthday celebrations, the  Center has scheduled two major events in March. The first, to take place at the Municipality of Thessaloniki on March 9-10, is a mock national democratic convention for local high school and university students.The second event will also be… More

Our vision for the Dukakis Center is to be the premier private, independent think tank in Greece, unique in Southern Europe for its focus on citizen engagement, worthy of a great institution like Anatolia College. To this end, a core group of senior former Dukakis Chair fellows and lecturers, friends… More