recipients of Faculty Support Grants for the February cycle
March 22nd, 2011
This post contains the list of successful Faculty Support Grant applications for the February application cycle. (Anyone interested in the results of a student grant application should contact me directly.)
AUC is proud of its Faculty Support Grant program, which ranks among the most generous of any university in the world. In addition to looking for your own grant on the list below, please take a few minutes to read through some of the other interesting research topics and conference trips of your AUC colleagues. Enhancing mutual recognition of faculty research is one of the motivations for listing successful grant applicants here in the Bulletin.
If you see any mistaken information in the list, including minor spelling errors in any names, please contact me immediately at gharman@aucegypt.edu. We aspire to have a completely accurate list for each grant cycle.
Official letters of approval will be sent to everyone shortly. However, please note the following two points:
1. My assistant, Nancy, has been asked to help organize the March 31 Commencement Ceremony, and this needs to be her top priority at the moment. This could lead to delays of several days in processing your grant letters.
2. At the request of the Payroll Office, we will no longer be sending approval letters for Conference Grants that have been approved “pending acceptance of paper.” The new policy is that we need to see your acceptance letter from the conference before issuing the approval letter, or at least see your name on the official conference schedule.
CONFERENCE GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Steven Formaneck (Management). San Jose, California, USA. June 2011.
*Dilip Ghosh (Management). Bangkok, Thailand. April 2011.
*Mohamed Hegazy (Accounting). Rome, Italy. April 2011.
*Mohamed Hegazy (Accounting). Istanbul, Turkey. June 2011.
*Maha Mourad (Management). Dubai, U.A.E. March 2011.
*Hamed Shamma (Management). Coral Gables, Florida, USA. May 2011.
*Hamed Shamma (Management). Washington D.C., USA. June 2011.
*Ahmed Tolba (Management). Coral Gables, Florida, USA. May 2011.
*Samir Youssef (Management). Ashridge, U.K. June 2011.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Hussein Amin (JRMC). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. April 2011.
*Kim Fox (JRMC). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. April 2011.
*Gianluca Parolin (Law). Hong Kong. April 2011.
*AKM Ahsan Ullah (CMRS). Bangkok, Thailand. May 2011.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Hala Abd AlHak (SAPE). Montreal, Canada. May 2011.
*Nora Abdel Wahab (ALI). Washington D.C., USA. December 2011.
*Dalal Abo El Seoud (ALI). Washington D.C., USA. December 2011.
*David Blanks (HIST). Beijing, China. July 2011.
*Valerie Carpenter (ELI). Dubai, U.A.E. March 2011.
*Matthew Crippen (PHIL). Toronto, Canada. April 2011.
*Ira Dworkin (ECLT). Baltimore, Maryland, USA. October 2011.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Chicago, Illinois, USA. March 2011.
*Atta Gebril (ELI). Nicosia, Cyprus. June 2011.
*Atta Gebril (ELI). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. June 2011.
*Belle Gironda (Rhet/Comp). Atlanta, Georgia. USA. April 2011.
*Inas Hafez (ALI). Washington D.C., USA. December 2011.
*Mona Hassan (ALI). Washington D.C., USA. December 2011.
*Abeer Heider (ALI). New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. April 2011.
*Noelle Houssney (Rhet/Comp). Melbourne, Australia. June-July 2011.
*Salima Ikram (SAPE). Chicago, Illinois. April 2011.
*Heba Kotb (SAPE). Montreal, Canada. May 2011.
*Sanaa Makhlouf (ELI). Brighton, U.K. April 2011.
*Gretchen McCullough (Rhet/Comp). Lisbon, Portugal. June-July, 2011.
*Mate Tokić (HIST). Berlin, Germany. February 2011.
*Dan Tschirgi (Poli. Sci.). San Juan, Puerto Rico. April 2011.
*Elena Tzelepis (PHIL). Tainan, Taiwan. May 2011.
*Loubna Youssef (Rhet/Comp). Washington D.C., USA. December 2011.
LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)
*Amanda Click (Library). London, U.K. April 2011.
*Meggan Houlihan (Library). Beirut, Lebanon. April-May 2011.
*Meggan Houlihan (Library). Athens, Greece. May 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Sherif Abdelazeem (EENG). Beijing, China. September 2011.
*Mustafa Arafa (MENG). Washington D.C., USA. August 2011.
*Gregg De Young (MACT). Thessaloniki, Greece. July 2011.
*Ayman Elezabi (EENG). Ayia Napa, Cyprus. May 2011.
*Lamyaa El Gabry (MENG). Vancouver, Canada. June 2011.
*Justin Grubich (BIOL). Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. July 2011.
*Ossama Hosny (CANG). Miami, Florida. June 2011.
*Alaa Ibrahim (PHYS). Cape Town, South Africa. April 2011.
*Jeff Langman (CORE/PENG). Monaco. March-April 2011.
*Magda Mostafa (CANG). Tokyo, Japan. September-October 2011.
*Mohammad Sadek (MACT). Vilnius, Lithuania. June-July 2011.
*Sherif Safar (CANG). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. June 2011.
*Nagwa Sherif (CANG). Bari, Italy. May 2011.
RESEARCH GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Angie Abdel Zahar (Accounting). “The Association Between CEO Incentives and Complex Outsourcing Decisions.” Cairo. March-October 2011.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Jennifer Bremer (PPAD). “Cairo’s Neighborhood Watch Groups: A Case Study of Spontaneous Collective Action.” Cairo. March-May 2011.
*David London (JRMC). “25th January Multimedia Exhibition.” Cairo. March-July 2011.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Agnes Czajka (SAPE). “Migrants and Refugees in Revolutionary Egypt: Discourses of Nationhood and Foreignness During and in the Aftermath of the January 25th Uprising.” Cairo, Egypt. June-August 2011.
*Aissa Deebi (PVA). “My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life.” Germany and Palestine. May 2011.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). “Investigating Tajikistani EFL Teachers’ Views and Experiences Through Critical Literature Circles.” Dushanbe, Tajikistan. May-August 2011.
*Atta Gebril (ELI). “Conceptions of Assessment Among Egyptian Pre-Service Teachers.” Sohag, Egypt. March 2011-March 2012.
*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). “Beyond the Boundaries of Nation: Dreaming of a Modern Iran in Cairo.” Princeton, New Jersey, USA. June-July 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Sherif Aly (CSCE). “Novel Software Engineering Practices for Pervasive Systems.” Ottawa, Canada. June-December 2011.
*Khaled Nassar (CANG). “Digital Fabrication Techniques for Low-Cost Housing Using Local Sustainable Material.” Cairo. June 2011-March 2012.
*Sherif Sedky (PHYS). “Laser-Based Processing of Thin Films for MEMS Applications.” Palto Alto, California, USA. July 2011.
*Ezzeldin Soliman (PHYS). “Novel Miniaturized Antennas for Radio Frequency Identifcation (RFID) Systems.” Leuven, Belgium. June 2011.
*Suher Zada (BIOL). “MicroRNA as a Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tool on HCV-Induced Liver Fibrosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.” Cairo. March 2011-March 2012.
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT GRANT
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Rasha Abdulla (JRMC). “Social Media and Political Participation: The Case of the Egyptian Revolution.” Cairo. February-June 2011.
*Naila Hamdy (JRMC). “State Media and Private Media vs. Social Media: Monitoring and Analyzing Media Coverage of the Egyptian Revolution 2011.” Cairo and Alexandria, April-July 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Hassanein Amer (EENG). “Effect of Failure Criteria on WSN Lifetime.” Cairo. March 2011-February 2012.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Frank Bradley (PVA). “Teaching Creativity: Current Trends and Critical Encounters.” Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. March-April 2011.
*Sophie Farag (ELI). “Skilled Helping and Feedback.” Canterbury, U.K. July 2011.
*Wael Mahallawy (PVA). “Pro Tools Training Professional Certification Package.” New York, USA. April 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Christian Bauriedel (CANG). “Supplements to Enhance the Performance of the 3D-Lab.” Cairo. June-December 2011.
recipients of Faculty Support Grants for the November cycle
December 15th, 2010
Successful faculty grant applications for the November cycle are listed below. Some of the conference grants are pending a letter of acceptance. If you believe that you are incorrectly missing from the list, or if your name is misspelled or some of the information is incorrect, please email me immediately at gharman@aucegypt.edu. Corrections are quite easy to make.
CONFERENCE GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Ahmed Abdel Meguid (ACCT). Rome, Italy. April 2011.
*Khaled Dahawy (ACCT). Rome, Italy. April 2011.
*Khaled Samaha (ACCT). Rome, Italy. April 2011.
*Ahmed Tolba (MGMT). Lugano, Switzerland. March 2011.
*Samir Youssef (MGMT). Barcelona, Spain. June 2011.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Kevin Keenan (JRMC). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. April 2011.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Tahia Abdel Nasser (ECLT). Vancouver, Canada. March-April 2011.
*Nora Abdel Wahab (ALI). Tucson, Arizona. March 2011.
*Dalal Abo El Seoud (ALI). Tucson, Arizona. March 2011.
*Riham Bahi (PoliSci). Florence, Italy. April 2011.
*Melanie Carter (Rhet/Comp). New Delhi, India. January 2011.
*Carol Clark (ELI). New Orleans, USA. March 2011.
*Carol Clark (ELI). San Francisco, USA. March 2011.
*Carol Clark (ELI). Orlando, Florida. USA. May 2011.
*Agnes Czajka (SAPE). Montreal, Canada. March 2011.
*Jennifer Davis (Rhet/Comp). Prague, Czech Republic. March 2011.
*Amani Demian (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2011.
*Inas Hafez (ALI). Tucson, Arizona, USA. March 2011.
*Mona K. Hassan (ALI). Tucson, Arizona. March 2011.
*Rania Jabr (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2011.
*Nagwa Kassabgy (ELI). Brighton, UK. April 2011.
*Roger López (PHIL). Spokane, Washington, USA. March 2011.
*Sanaa Makhlouf (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2011.
*William Melaney (ECLT). Reykjavik, Iceland. April 2011.
*Afaf Mishriki (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2011.
*Yasmine Salah El Din (ELI). Ponte Verde Beach, Florida, USA. April 2011.
*Yasmine Salah El Din (ELI). Brighton, UK. April 2011.
*Bonnie Settlage (SAPE). Prague, Czech Republic. March, 2011.
*Ann Shafer (PVA). New York, USA. February 2011.
*Ann Shafer (PVA). New Orleans, USA. April 2011.
*Elena Tzelepis (Phil). Granada, Spain. January 2011.
*Phyllis Wachob (ELI). New Orleans, USA. March 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Ali Darwish (EENG). Baltimore, MD, USA. June 2011.
*Khaled El-Ayat (CSCE). Nürnberg, Germany. March 2011.
*Walid Fouad (BIOL). Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. June 2011.
*Alaa Ibrahim (PHYS). Washington, D.C., USA. February 2011.
*Mikhail N. Mikhail (CSCE). St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles. January 2011.
RESEARCH GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). “Murjan Tower: Economically Viable?” Bahrain. January –May 2011.
*Mohamed Hegazy (ACCT). “The Development of Key Financial Performance Indicators for U.K. Construction Companies.” Egypt & United Kingdom. December 2010-May 2011.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Ghada Barsoum (PPAD). "Getting Married and Housing Policy Reforms in Egypt: Is There a Connection?"
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Noelle Houssney (Rhet/Comp). Performance Piece. Beirut, Lebanon. January 2011.
*Lisa Sabbahy (SAPE). “Royal Brother-Sister Mating in Ancient Egypt.” Cairo. March-April 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Mohamed Aly (MENG). “Modelling and Testing of Light Weight Sandwich Beams.” January-October 2011.
*Christian Bauriedel (CANG). “Digital Recording & Analog Model Production of Historic Monuments.” Cairo. January 2011.
*Ali Darwish (EENG). “Thermal Analysis and Stability Analysis of MMIC.” Cairo. January-August 2011.
*Lamyaa El Gabry (MENG). “Gas Turbine Heat Transfer.” Stockholm, Sweden. December 2010-January 2011.
*Salah El Sheikh. "Clathrate Hydrates with HD & H2 as Host Molecules." Egypt and Italy. November 2010-November 2011.
*Justin Grubich. "Feeding Behavior and Distribution of Lionfishes in their Native Habitat." Red Sea, Egypt. January 2011-January 2012.
*Edward Smith (CANG). “Impact of Wastewater Dissolved Organic Matter on Fate and Transport of Bacteria in Soil.” Cairo. January –December 2011.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT
BUS (School of Business)
*Mohga Badran (MGMT). "Teaching Effectiveness, AACSB." Tampa, Florida, USA. March 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Maki Habib (MENG). “Online and Interactive Simulation for MENG 375 and MEN 476.” Cairo. January-October 2011.
CO-ORDINATION OF A CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANT
BUS (School of Business)
*Maha Mourad (MGMT). The Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Marketing, ICHEM 2011. AUC New Cairo Campus. April 18-20, 2011.
*Abdelkrim Seghir (ECON). Egypt/SAET Workshop in Economic Theory. AUC New Cairo Campus. February 26, 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Maher Younan (MENG). MAMD’201, 6th International Conference Mechanics and Material in Design. AUC New Campus, November 2011.
recipients of Faculty Support Grants for the September cycle
October 19th, 2010
Beginning with the September 2010 application cycle for AUC internal faculty grants, we are posting the names of all faculty grant recipients here on the Faculty Bulletin (and, in the case of all grants other than Conference Grants, the topic of the project). There are two reasons for doing so:
1. To accelerate the notification process. Please note that recipients still need to wait several days for the official letter from my Office to know the amount received. Acceptance does not entail that the full amount requested was in fact awarded. (For now, we have decided not to list the exact dollar amount of the grants in the Bulletin.)
2. To enhance mutual awareness of AUC faculty research. It is enjoyable to read through the list and learn about the many interesting research projects in which your colleagues are involved.
Some of the Conference Grants are pending a letter of acceptance for the presentations. For this reason, only the conference locations are listed so as not to “jump the gun” with conference titles before some of the presentations are officially accepted.
If you are not on the list below and think there is an error, you may contact the Associate Provost for Research Administration (gharman@aucegypt.edu) for an explanation.
Names of recipients are listed alphabetically by family name.
Please note: this is the last cycle of AUC faculty support grants to be awarded under the old system. Beginning with the November application cycle, new application forms are required and the new rules apply. Please see the following website for details:
http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/grants/Pages/Fac.aspx
CONFERENCE GRANTS
*Hala El Ramly (Economics). Denver, Colorado. January 2011.
*Steven Formaneck (Management). Bahrain. January 2011.
*Dilip Ghosh (Management). New York. October 2010.
*Maha Mourad (Management). Beirut. December 2010.
*Maha Mourad (Management). Zürich. February 2011.
*Eskandar Tooma (Management). Cape Town. November 2010.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Nadya Chishty-Mujahid (ECLT). Oxford, UK. January 2011.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Jaen, Spain. December 2010.
*Camilo Gomez-Rivas (ARIC). Boston. January 2011.
*Abeer Salah Heider (ALI). Seattle. March 2011.
*Hani Henry (SAPE). Charleston, SC. February 2011.
*Amy Holmes (SAPE). San Diego, CA. November 2011.
*Vassiliki Kotini (ECLT). New Brunswick, NJ. April 2011.
*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). Los Angeles. January 2011.
*Ann Shafer (PVA). Atlanta. November 2010.
*Nadine Sika (Political Science). Florence, Italy. April 2011.
*Mohammed Tabishat (SAPE). New Orleans. November 2010.
*Daniel Vilmure (RHET/COMP). Istanbul. November 2010.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Mervat Abou Oaf (JRMC). Kuwait. October 2010.
*Hamid Ali (PPA). Berlin. January 2011.
*Alejandro Escorihuela (Law). Madrid. December 2010.
*Sherine Fahmy (JRMC). Kuwait. October 2010.
*Kim Fox (JRMC). Kuwait. October 2010.
*Outi Korhonen (Law). Madrid. December 2010.
*Tanya Monforte (Law). Madrid. December 2010.
LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)
*Amanda Click (Library). Dubai. October 2010.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Maki Habib (MENG). Beppu, Oita, Japan. January 2011.
*Ali Hadi (MACT). Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 2010.
*Ahmed Moustafa (Biology). Hersonissios, Crete, Greece. November 2010.
*Khaled Nassar (CANG). Baltimore, MD. December 2010.
*Hanadi Salem (MENG). San Diego, CA. February-March, 2011.
*Alexander Schuster (MACT). Helsinki, Finland. October 2010.
RESEARCH GRANTS
*Mohamed Hegazy (Accounting). “Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Do Red Flags Really Help?” Cairo. July 2010-December 2010.
*Khaled Samaha (Accounting). “The Extent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Information Disclosure and its Determinants by the Largest Companies Listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EXG).” Cairo. September 2010-September 2011.
*Ahmed Tolba (Management). “The Effect of Opinion Leadership on Innovation Diffusion and Use.” Cairo. October 2010-July 2011.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Hamid Ali (PPA). “Public Policy Debate: Inflationary and Reserve Requirement in Economy with Informal Sector.” Cairo. January 2011.
*AKM Ahsan Ullah (CMRS). “Tapping the Potential for Corporate Social Responsibilities (CRS) to Address the Needs of Refugees in Egypt.” Cairo. October 2010-April 2011.
*Justin Martin (JRMC). "Half the Tunisian Sky: Two-Part Journalism Project on Women's Rights in Tunisia." Tunis. November 2010.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Salima Ikram (SAPE). “North Kharga Oasis Survey, Field Work.” Kharga Oasis, Egypt. December 2010-January 2011.
*Mate Tokić (History). “For the Homeland, Ready! Diaspora Politics and Transnational Political Violence During the Cold War.” Ottawa, ON, Canada. January 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Sherif Abdel Azeem (EENG). Cairo. “On-line Handwritten Digits Recognition.” September 2010-August 2011.
*Mohab Anis (EENG). “Design for Yield of Sensitive Integrated Circuits in the Nanometer Regime.” Cairo and Waterloo, ON, Canada. January-March, 2011.
*Samer Ezeldin (CANG). “Automation of Project Controls, Procedures, and Protocols for ISO Certification- Phase 1.” Cairo and New Brunswick, NJ. Fall 2010-Fall-2011.
*Hanadi Salem (MENG). “Fabrication of Ultrahigh Strength/Tough Monolithic and Composite Nanostructured Bulk Products Using Powder Metallurgy/Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS).” Cairo. January 2011-April 2012.
*Kathleen Sheppard (Core). “Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers.” London. January 2011.
*Maher Younan (MENG). “Shakedown Limit Load Determination of Defected Pressure Vessel, and Piping Components Using a Simplified Technique.” Cairo. November 2010-May 2011.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Mustafa Arafa (MENG). Cairo. “Development of Teaching Aids for Mechanical Vibration.” December 2010-December 2011.
CO-ORDINATION OF A CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANT
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Mohab Anis (EENG). “International Conference on Microelectronics.” Sofitel el-Gezira, Cairo. December 19-22, 2010.
Ahmed Tolba Wins Excellent Teacher of the Year Award
June 19th, 2010
At last night's Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony, Ahmed Tolba (Department of Management in the School of Business) received the AUC Excellent Teacher of the Year Award. Congratulations to Dr. Tolba on this prestigious honor.
