Aggie Ring Day concludes Howdy Week activities
Published Sep 15, 2019The Department of Student Affairs held its annual Howdy Week 1-5 Sept. The week’s program included the Aggieland Market Fair, Student Involvement Fest, Study Abroad Fair, Wellness Day, and Aggie Ring Day combined with Spirit Thursday. New and returning students attended the week's…
Student Engineers’ Council kicks off 11th year
Published Sep 15, 2019In 2019, the Student Engineers’ Council Qatar (SECQ) turns 11 years old and is celebrating 11 years of leadership. SECQ organized a welcome event for students 8 Sept. during which students discussed their expectations for the coming year with SECQ officers over ice cream. During SECQ’s…
Student Rinith Regunath presents research at IEEE conference in Germany
Published Sep 13, 2019Texas A&M University at Qatar electrical and computer engineering student Rinith Regunath presented his research, “Technical Communication in Transnational Contexts: A Study of Engineering Professionals in Qatar,” at the IEEE Professional Communication Society conference…
Texas A&M at Qatar welcomes new master’s and Ph.D. students
Published Sep 12, 2019Texas A&M University at Qatar recently welcomed a new class of 13 master’s students in chemical engineering for the 2019-2020 academic year during Graduate Orientation. Also in attendance were several new Ph.D. students from Texas A&M’s main campus in College Station, Texas…
Srinivasa awarded ASME Warner Medal
Published Sep 09, 2019Mechanical engineering professor Dr. Arun Srinivasa has been named recipient of the 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Worcester Reed Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering.
Texas A&M at Qatar’s Aggie Life 101 orientation welcomes new students to campus
Published Aug 31, 2019Texas A&M University at Qatar recently welcomed about 140 new students during the three-day Aggie Life 101 orientation ahead of the start of the fall semester. Students and graduates of Texas A&M University are called “Aggies” and that tradition continues at Texas A&M’s branch campus…
Bazzi honored as 2019 Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Published Aug 28, 2019Dr. Hassan S. Bazzi, associate dean for research at Texas A&M University at Qatar, was recently honored as a 2019 Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in chemistry and contributions to…
Texas A&M at Qatar hosts QAST students in STEM Hub
Published Aug 28, 2019Incoming students from the Qatar Academy for Science & Technology spent part of their first week of school working at Texas A&M University at Qatar in its STEM Hub, which is funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Eleven 10th grade students learned the history and engineering…
Texas A&M at Qatar faculty invited to submit proposals for transformative educational experience grants
Published Aug 15, 2019The Center for Teaching and Learning at Texas A&M University at Qatar has issued its annual call for proposals for transformative educational experiences for students of the branch campus. These experiences, often also described as high-impact educational practices, are intended to shape significantly a student’s education by fostering such attributes as critical and creative thinking, communication…
Incoming freshmen join leadership seminar in Italy
Published Aug 14, 2019Incoming Texas A&M University at Qatar freshmen — Omar Affifi, Sayed Afnaan Ahmed, Fatima Ali, Wejdan Al-Sanadi, and Beena Debnath — joined 27 of their counterparts from Texas A&M…