Rinchu Mathew, president of the SOC, said, “We had a fundraiser at Texas A&M at Qatar to raise money to buy toys and books for the children we planned to visit at the hospital. During the visit, 12 students went room to room at the hospital, playing with the children admitted to the pediatrics ward and trying to brighten their days.” The SOC hopes to continue outreach activity throughout the spring semester.

For information contact Rinchu Mathew: rinchu.mathew@qatar.tamu.edu.

Manzoor Ahmed presented “A Regression Method of Forecasting US Energy Needs,” Dillan Raymond Roshan presented “Upholding Human Rights: The Loop Holes in Democracy and Globalization” and Anas Al-Bastami presented “Exploring the Nexus between National Economic Development and Conflict Behavior: Lessons for Syria.” Al Bastami’s paper has also been accepted for publication in Texas A&M’s undergraduate Journal ‘Explorations.’ Student posters were based on papers written as part of the comparative politics and introduction to world politics classes offered by Dr. Hassan Bashir, assistant professor of political science. For information contact Dr. Hassan Bashir: hassan.bashir@qatar.tamu.edu.

His lecture will focus on the evolution of wireless systems along with the features of the future world of agile wireless networks where convergence will abolish borders inside the digital world and where more and more services will be using different technologies, often supported by intelligent multimodal terminals over a converged, pervasive and ubiquitous IP network regardless of the access technology. For information or to RSVP contact Laila Sayeh: laila.sayeh@qatar.tamu.edu.