Award Categories

Award Winners 2020

Research Excellence Awards

• Sciences & Engineering

  Dr. Aboubakr M. Abdullah Ali
  Center for Advanced Materials

• Humanities & Social Sciences

  Dr. Justin Gengler
  Social and Economic Survey Research Institute

• Medical, Biomedical & Health Sciences

  Dr. Gheyath Nasrallah
  College of Health Sciences

Visualization Award Photography

• Saaeda Al-Bader
  College of Engineering
• Indra Gunawan – Dr. Zubair Ahmad
  Center for Advanced Materials
• Dr. Monica Zolezzi – Maria BenKhadra – Afnan Alnajjar – Rozina El-Kaffash – Ikram Al-Zoukh
  College of Pharmacy

Poster Awards

• Energy, Environment & Resource Sustainability
  Faculty and PostDoc

  Ahmad Sleiti, Wahib Al-Ammari, Mohammed Al-Khawaja, Maxim Glushenkov, Alexander Kronberg
  128: Subcritical and Supercritical Operation of Innovative Thermal Mechanical Refrigeration System

• Energy, Environment & Resource Sustainability
  Graduate Students

  Rem Jalab, Abdelrahman M. Awad, Mustafa S. Nasser, Joel Minier-Matar, Samer Adham
  342: Pilot Scale Osmotic Concentration Process for Reducing Wastewater Volumes from Gas Processing Facilities in Qatar

• Energy, Environment & Resource Sustainability
  Undergraduate Students

  Najam US Sahar Riyaz, Karthik Kannan, Aboubakr M. Abdullah, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni
  238: Facile Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles and Its Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Fuels

• Social Change and Identity
  Faculty and PostDoc

  Eiman Abdel Maksoud Eissa
  400: Consumer Behavior in Grocery Shopping: Qatari Community During the GCC Blockade

• Social Change and Identity
  Graduate Students

  Suha Fayed Tahtamouni, Chinda Alwan Mohammad, Lina Said Zukari, Momena Khader Tayeh, Hissa Sadiq
  129: The Effect of Teaching Science and Mathematics in Arabic on Students Achievement in Qatari Schools

• Social Change and Identity
  Undergraduate Students

  Noora Essa AlAnsari, Ali Idrissi, Micheal Grosvald
  382: The McGurk Effect in Qatari Arabic: Influences of Lexicality and Consonant Position

• Population, Health & Wellness
  Faculty and PostDoc

  Layla Kamareddine, Hoda Najjar, Abeer Mohbeddin, Nawar Haj Ahmed, Paula Watnick
  340: Between Immunity, Metabolism, and Development: A story of a Fly Gut!

• Population, Health & Wellness
  Graduate Students

  Samar Shurbaji, Ahmed Elzatahry, Huseyin Yalcin
  235: The Influence of Shear Stress on Nanomaterial’s Uptake by MDA-231 Breast Cancer Cells

• Population, Health & Wellness
  Undergraduate Students

  Sarra Benammar, Fatima Mraiche, Jensa Mariam Joseph, Katerina Gorachinova
  358: Glucose and Transferrin Liganded Plga Nanoparticles Internalization in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Cells

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
  Faculty and PostDoc

  Qinaat Hussain, Wael K. M. Alhajyaseen, Kris Brijs, Ali Pirdavani, Tom Brijs
  316: Impact of Countdown Ground LED lights on Traffic Flow Efficiency at Signalized Intersections: A Driving Simulator Study

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
  Graduate Students

  Mustafa Suhail Almallah, Qinaat Hussain, Wael K. M Alhajyaseen, Tom Brijs
  331: Improved Road Safety at Work Zones Using Advanced Traveler Information Systems

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
  Undergraduate Students

  Yosra M Mekki, Mohamed M Mekki, Mohamed Hamammi, Susu Zughaier
  323: Virtual Reality Module Depicting Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection as Educational Tool to Reduce Antibiotic Resistant Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Infections

• Covid-19 Research
  Faculty and PostDoc (1)

  Omar Elharrouss, Noor Al-Maadeed, Khalid Abualsaud, Amr Mahmoud, Tamer Khattab, Sumaya Al-Maadeed
  451: Smart System to Monitor Social-Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Covid-19 Research
  Faculty and PostDoc (2)

  Fatiha M. Benslimane, Hebah Al Khatib, Dana Albatesh, Ola Al-Jamal, Sonia Boughattas, Asmaa A. Althani, Hadi M. Yassine
  436: Nanopore Sequencing SARS-CoV-2 Genome in Qatar

• Covid-19 Research
  Graduate Students

  Salma Younes, Hadeel Al-Jighefee, Farah Shurrab, Duaa Al-Sadeq, Hadi M. Yassine, Asmaa Althani, Reham Marei, Hashim Alhussain, Gheyath Nasrallah
  448: Validation of Selected Commercial Serological Assays for Diagnosis of COVID-19

• Covid-19 Research
  Undergraduate Students

  Nada Hossam Soliman, Ahmed T.M. Aboughalia, Tawanda Chivese, Omran A.H. Musa, George Hindy, Noor Al-Wattary, Saifeddin Moh'd Badran, Joshua T. Matizanadzo, Mohamed M. Emara, Lukman Thalib, Suhail A.R. Doi
  428: A Meta-review of Meta-analyses and an Updated Meta-analysis on The Efficacy of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine In Treating COVID19 Infection

Graduate Research Awards

• Graduate Research Award Sciences

  Tadesse Gemeda Wakjira
  PhD in Civil Engineering, College of Engineering

• Graduate Research Award Humanities & Social Sciences

  Eslam Abouzid
  MA in Arabic, College of Arts & Sciences

• Outstanding Thesis/ Dissertation Awards

  Adnan Khan
  Thesis / Mechanical Engineering

Outstanding Thesis/ Dissertation Awards

• Ahmad Yaser Dissertation / Mechanical Engineering
• Lamees Ali Thesis / Public Health
• Mohammed Al-Janahi Thesis / Education
• Fatimah Abdullahi Thesis / Accounting
• Fatimah Mohammad Thesis / Gulf Studies
• Sultan Mahyoub Dissertation / Arabic Language
• Balsam Rizeq Dissertation / Biological & Environmental Sciences
• Ali Alaa Aldein Thesis / Materials Science & Technology
• Sarra Sallabi Thesis / Public Law
• Sara Hamdi Abdulrahim Thesis / Pharmacy
• Abdelrahman Al-Janahi Thesis / Sharia