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Best ideas for Oman’s development honoured at Research Awards
By: Times News Service
Muscat: A new way for people with diabetes to cure themselves of their condition, new energy-saving ways to cool homes in hot countries like Oman, and better methods to generate renewable energy are among the 12 projects to have been awarded at this year’s National Research Awards.
The awards honour research done by those who come up with ideas across a number of fields, including healthcare, transportation, energy, the environment, computing, and many others, which benefit the lives of society. Under the PhD category, Constantinos Chryssou from Muscat University won in the Education and Human Resources field for his project titled ‘University–industry interactions in the Sultanate of Oman: Challenges and opportunities’.
Success strategies for women in STEM stressed
20 Dec 2020 - 8:55
Dr. Hanan Farhat
The Peninsula
Doha: Four senior-level leaders from four academic institutions spoke candidly about their personal experiences and success strategies for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professions during a recent webinar hosted by the Women’s Faculty Forum at Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university.
The discussion convened founder and senior research director of the Corrosion Center at the HBKU Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Dr. Hanan Farhat; Vice chancellor of Muscat University in Oman and the first female head of a university in that country, Dr. Yusra Mouzughi; Associate professor in the Public Policy Program at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Dr. Rabia Nagiub; and Senior director of programs at the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) in the US, Dr. Rochelle Williams. Texas A&M at Qatar faculty D