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This year's Central European University Open Society Prize was awarded to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of BRAC, the largest international non-governmental development organization, in Budapest at CEU's graduation ceremony on June 13.

CEU Celebrates Graduation 2013

CEU669 graduates from 77 countries – a record number for CEU – received their diplomas at the University's 22nd annual commencement ceremony on June 13. President and Rector John Shattuck welcomed the graduates, their friends and families, and Open Society Prize Winner Sir Fazle Hasan Abed to Budapest's Palace of the Arts on the banks of the still-flooded Danube River.

Research Focus

If you identify with someone from another race, you become less racist. Natalie Sebanz, associate professor in CEU's Department of Cognitive Science, came to this conclusion by making it happen, in research published in the August 2013 edition of Cognition. Light-skinned participants were shown a dark-skinned hand, and with their own hand hidden from view, they began to feel the dark-skinned hand was their own. Racial bias dropped after the participants felt this identifying experience.