Interview by Viktoria Dailova A cozy town an hour outside Sofia, Pravets is famous in Bulgaria for being the birthplace of two things: the communist-era leader Todor Zhivkov and the country’s first personal computer, aptly named the Pravetz (and suspiciously similar...
Interview by Rada Kaneva Dr. Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones has lived not just one extraordinary life, but several. A two-time Olympic athlete in beach volleyball (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), she later pivoted to an entirely different frontier — astrophysics. Today, as...
By Filip Lyapov Could you introduce yourself in a few words? As a Bulgarian-American (shoutout Ruse!) and francophone, having attended a French immersion school for seven years and studied abroad twice in high school, my decision to move across the Atlantic for...
Interview by Maria Kostova As an AUBG undergraduate and a Fulbright MA student at Cornell, you have always been passionate about computers and American-style education – how did these interests develop? I was first inspired by technology when I was three years old...
By Rada Kaneva Eleonora Edreva, or Ele, as her friends call her, is a Fulbright Student Researcher whose project explores the intersection of organic awareness and traditional crafts through natural dyeing. With Bulgarian roots and a deep passion for textiles, Ele set...
