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Dr. Brannon Wheeler will be joining the Liberal Arts Program next week through mid-August as a visiting scholar. Dr. Wheeler joins the University from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he is a Professor of History and member of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. His most recent book is Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (University of Chicago Press, 2006).…

Texas A&M University at Qatar recently hosted its inaugural initiation of its sixth honor society, Phi Kappa Phi. The oldest and largest of all academic honor societies in the US, Phi Kappa Phi recognizes deserving faculty, staff and student members from all disciplines across the college campus. Reinforcing…

Mohammed AlShammasi, is one of six recipients of the Hamad Bin Khalifa University President's Award. The President's Award was created to recognize the achievements and excellence of students graduating from HBKU's partner universities. Beyond recognizing the academic achievements of students, the award aims to acknowledge students who made a deep commitment to improving their surroundings;…

Manzoor Roome (Qatar Shell), Missam Jaffer (QEERI), and Yazan Abdeen (QSTP) have received the Most Outstanding Student Award from Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP). These Aggies participated in the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (TIEP) at QSTP. TIEP is a six-month intensive training program where participants were tasked with evaluating the commercial capability…

Texas A&M at Qatar has been recognized with 17 research awards at the Qatar National Research Fund's (QNRF) 5th annual forum. The awards represent $17.8 million in research funding under QNRF's 6th cycle of the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP). The program also recognized the engineering university's faculty and staff with two accolades, "Best Researcher of the Year" and "Best…

Shoaib Chohan, research assistant, Regetha Reghunath, mechanical engineering student, were awarded third place at the Junior Scientists Breakthrough in Biomedical Research Symposium, organized by the Anti-Doping Lab Qatar. Chohan and Reghunath are under the supervision of Dr. Annie Ruimi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. The event took place at the Museum of Islamic Arts…

Dr. Mohammed Nounou, associate professor of chemical engineering, was recently named Chemical Engineering Faculty of the Year during the 2013 Graduate Luncheon Recognition. Recipients of these awards are selected by the 2013 graduating seniors.For information contact Amanda Field: amanda.field@qatar.tamu.edu, +974.4423.0288.

Texas A&M University at Qatar graduated its 400th engineer at its spring commencement exercise Thursday evening at the Qatar National Convention Centre. The ceremony celebrated the University’s 113 spring graduates, its first two chemical engineering master’s program graduates and featured guest speaker Mr. Khalid A. Al-Falih, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco and Texas A&M ’82 graduate.

Texas A&M at Qatar recently hosted the fifth annual Visualization Development Competition (VDC) and first 3D printing competition. Organized by the research computing group, the VDC is designed to raise awareness about the powerful 3D Immersive Visualization Facility's (IVF) capabilities for the research and academic communities. Winner of the 2013 VDC is Vamsi Vegamoor, mechanical engineering…

Maya Abi Akl, technical laboratory coordinator, has been accepted to take part to the CERN School of Computing 2013 (CSC2013) in Nicosia, Cyprus, 19-30 Aug. She is the first researcher from Qatar and the Gulf to be accepted to this program. Abi Akl is working in the Science Program and within the research group of Dr. Othmane Bouhali, research associate professor and director of research…