Dean’s List Fall 2011 Sara Abbas Muhammad Abbasi Rafay Abbasi Hawra Abdulla Dania Abed Rabbou Edmond Abi Saleh Omar Abou Selo Yazan Abu Hijleh Noor Ul-Huda Admaney Rand Aga Rawan Agha Saad Ahmed Fatema Akbar Mohammed Al Ahmadani Amal Alamri Mohammed Al-Ansari Hiba Al-Ashtal Maryam Al-Buhendi Aisha Al-Hail Tarek Al-Hariri Khadeejah Al-Husseiny Lana Al-Kahala Fatima Al-Khayat Sarah Allouba Aljawhra Al-Mana Hamsa Al-Massri Mohammed Al-Matwi Amna Al-Mazroei Rashed Al-Kaabi Belal Al Kadhi Hind Al Khulaifi Abdullrahman Al Muftah Mohammed Al-Rawahi Mohammed Al Saad Ahmad Al-Sarraf Issa Al-Sheeb Maryam Al-Subaie Ghanim Al-Sulati Ghaya Al-Sulati Reham Al Tamime Faisal Al-Thani Maryam Al-Thani Mohammed Al Thani Aisha Al-Zaman Nur Aysha Anggraini Nahan Arif Shivani Arora Afrozul Aziz Sabih Bin Wasi Daniel Cheweiky Fahim Dalvi Manoj Dareddy Abdallah Darwish
Spring 2011 Aliah Dehdary Ma. Francine Dinglasan Mohammad Dualeh Mei Elgindi Ali Walied El Hag El Houssain El Marabti Hadya Elshakh Omar El Zoheery Saoud Faiadh Nihal Fathima Kenrick Fernandes Marie-Joe Germanos Kharchan Syed Haider Anas Halbawi Asma Hamid Nabeeha Haque Layal Hasan Afrah Hassan Tanzeel Huda Mohammed Hussain Narjes Jafarian Sama Kanbour Raji Katibe Batoul Khalife Elie Mansour Syed Moosavi Jyda Moussa Fathima Lamana Mulaffer Sarah Mustafa Fatima Nadeem Amel Osman Arun Pandian Muhammad Polin Lakshmi Prakash Allan Reeves Shaileja Harendra Relwani Amalan Roshan Nada Salem Rama Sbei Baljit Singh Saba Singh Omar Shamiyeh Ian Skjervem Mohamed Soudy Patrick Steinhagen Akhmed Sungurov Humaira Tasnim Haya Thowfeek Abhay Valiyaveettil Mohammad Samer Younes Mohammad Zafar Haider Zali
Rafay Abbasi Abdulrahman Abdulla Dania Abed Rabbou Edmond Abi Saleh Omar Abou Selo Amira Abu-Saba Noor Ul-Huda Admaney Wadha Alajmy Layal Al Alami Saoud Al-Badran Maryam Al-Buhendi Marwa Alfakhri Tarek Al-Hariri Khadeejah Al-Husseiny Noura Al-Jurdi Rashed Alkaabi Lana Al-Kahala Sara Al-Khalifa Fatima Al-Khayat Aljawhra Al-Mana Hamsa Al-Massri Mohammed Al-Matwi Noor Al-Mohannadi Noora Alsooj Reham Al Tamime Aisha Al-Thani Almaha Al-Thani Faisal Al-Thani Maryam Al-Thani Fatema Akbar Nur Aysha Anggraini Nahan Arif Shivani Arora Ridin Balakrishnan Zainab Baqri Mohamed El-Amin Benkermi Sabih Bin Wasi Daniel Cheweiky Fahim Dalvi Manoj Dareddy Abdallah Darwish Mohammad Dauleh Ma. Francine Dinglasan Mei Elgindi El Houssain El Marabti Hadya Elshakh Sana Fathima Flavio Fenley Kenrick Fernandes Zuhair Ghalib Syed Haider Zeeshan Hanif Nabeeha Haque
Layal Hasan Afrah Hassan Almulla Hassan Tanzeel Huda Mohamed Hussain Narjes Jafarian Chathurika Jayakody Sama Kanbour Raji Katibe Batoul Khalife Rana Khalil Aamir Masood Syed Moosavi Fathima Lamana Mulaffer Sarah Mustafa Fatima Nadeem Amel Osman Arun Pandian Muhammad Polin Lakshmi Prakash Allan Reeves Amalan Roshan Nada Salem Omar Shamiyeh Saba Singh Ian Skjervem Mohamed Soudy Aniish Sridhar Akhmed Sungurov Humaira Tasnim Haya Thowfeek Mohammad Samer Younes Maryam Yousuf Mohammad Zafar Haider Zali
Experts from education, government and industry judged the sixth annual Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium
2012 – the International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies. We also organized the third regional Undergraduate Conference in Information Systems (UCIS), where we showcased the research projects of students in Qatar and universities from the region. The information systems program continued to offer its flagship outreach program, Ibtikar. This year’s theme promoted Qatar’s culture and heritage to 2022 World Cup visitors. 120 students from more than 20 high schools participated. The winning team’s project was selected this year by ictQatar’s “TumuhaTEC” initiative as part of its top ten national high school projects. The information systems program initiated a new workshop series, “in-depth IS,” that targeted high achievers from selected schools and provided them the opportunity to explore information systems hands-on in our top class lab facility. This program was very well received by its participants and will continue to grow.
Meeting of the Minds
Meeting of the Minds is an undergraduate research symposium that helps students bridge the gap between conducting research and presenting it to a broad audience. A long-standing Carnegie Mellon tradition, Meeting of the Minds is held on the last day of the academic year.
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Eighteen teams of undergraduates, along with graduate students and faculty members, showcased a wide variety of projects to hundreds of guests from the education and business communities in Qatar. The first-place award went to business administration student Edmond Abi Saleh for his research on Islamic finance. Second place went to computer science student Raggi al Hammouri for his work on developing a Qatar-Specific Road Safety simulator. For a full list of projects, see Appendix D.
Collaborative Efforts within Education City
During this academic year, Carnegie Mellon continued to take a leading role in developing programs, courses and extracurricular activities that span multiple branch campuses. The most ambitious of these efforts was the launch of the new degree offering in biological sciences that is a collaborative effort with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. That program launched successfully in the fall of 2011 with an incoming class of six students who transferred to Carnegie Mellon’s biological sciences program after completing the pre-medical program at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. All six of those students completed their first year at Carnegie Mellon successfully. We continue to work with Northwestern and Georgetown campuses in Education City to jointly offer our and their students the opportunity to complete minors in journalism, media studies, business and international economics. Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
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