recipients of faculty support grants for the November cycle
December 11th, 2012
The following list includes faculty grants only. Graduate student grants are now handled exclusively by Dr. Amr Shaarawi, Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies. Please contact Dr. Shaarawi’s office for news about the status of applications for Graduate Student Grants.
My office will process the checks for the following grants as quickly as we can, but please allow some time for this to happen, since there is a very heavy workload for my assistant (Nancy Wadie) once the grant decisions are made. If you have not yet provided a letter of acceptance from the conference for which you have received a grant, no check will be issued until we receive such a letter.
If you see any typographical or other errors, or if you believe yourself to be wrongly missing from this list, please contact me immediately at gharman@aucegypt.edu.
CONFERENCE GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Mohamed A. Elbannan (ACCT). Frankfurt, Germany. February 2013.
*Mohamed Elbarkouky (MGMT). Montreal, QC, Canada. May-June 2013.
*Maha Mourad (MGMT). Las Vegas, USA. February 2013.
*Khaled Samaha (ACCT). Paris, France. May 2013.
*Hamed Shamma (MGMT). Sharjah, UAE. February 2013.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Usha Natarajan (Law). St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. April-May 2013.
GSE (Graduate School of Education)
*Heba El-Deghaidy (GSE). Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. April 2013.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Tahia Abdel Nasser (ECLT). Boston, USA. January 2013.
*Ashraf Abdou (ALI). Bloomington, IN, USA. February-March, 2013.
*Catarina Belo (PHIL). Lisbon, Portugal. April 2013.
*Jason Blum (HIST). Baltimore, USA. March 2013.
*Carol Clark (ELI). Dallas, USA. March 2013.
*Brooke Comer (RHET). Boston, USA. March 2013.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Riga, Latvia. May 2013.
*Atta Gebril (ELI). Munich, Germany. August 2012.
*Nagwa Kassabgy (ELI). Dallas, USA. March 2013.
*Sanaa Makhlouf (ELI). Liverpool, UK. April 2013.
*Ian Morrison (SAPE). New York, USA. February 2013.
*Yasmine Motawy (RHET). Boston, USA. March 2013.
*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). Boston, USA. January 2013.
*Alissa Nostas (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2013.
*Susanne Rizzo (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2013.
*Nadine Sika (POLS). Mersin, Turkey. March 2013.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Khaled El-Ayat (CSCE). Nuremberg, Germany. February 2013.
*Sherine El Baradei (CANG). Rome, Italy. February 2013.
*Mohamed Elbarkouky (CANG). University Park, PA, USA. April 2013.
*Tarek Elkewidy (PENG). Kuwait City, Kuwait. December 2012.
*Lotfi Gaafar (MENG). Cocoa Beach, FL, USA. March 2013.
*Adel Ragab (PENG). Cairo. April 2013.
*Ahmed Rafea (CSCE). Innsbruck, Austria. February 2013.
*Nagwa Sherif (CANG). Milan, Italy. September 2013.
*Mohamed Swillam (PHYS). San Francisco, USA. February 2013.
*Mohamed Swillam (PHYS). Sharjah, UAE. March 2013.
RESEARCH GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Mohamed Hegazy (ACCT). “Content Analysis on Minutes of an Audit Committee: The Egyptian Perspective.” Cairo. August 2012-February 2013.
*Maha Mourad (MGMT). “Assessing the Impact of European Standards for Internal Quality Assurance on Students’ Satisfaction and Intention Behavior.” Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. January-June 2013.
*Khaled Samaha (ACCT). “Reporting and Governance Reform and the Timeliness of Financial Reports in an Emerging Capital Market: Evidence from Egypt.” Cairo. October 2012-September 2013.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Hamid Ali (PPAD). “Military Spending and Natural Resourcces: Evidence from Rentier States in Middle East and North Africa.” Cairo. December 2012-May 2013.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Shereef Abdel-Azeem (EENG). “Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition.” Cairo. September 2012-August 2013.
*Ahmed Abou-Auf (MENG). “Fault Modeling and Worst-Case Test Vectors for Failures Induces in FPGAs by Total Ionizing Radiation.” Cairo. October 2012-September 2013.
*Nageh Allam (PHYS). “Hybrid Metal/Semiconductor Nanostructured Electrodes for Photo-Induced Charge Separation: Application to Solar-Driven Hydrogen Production.” Pasadena, CA. May-September 2013.
*Edwin Cruz-Rivera (BIOL). “Interactions Between Ontogeny, Autonomy, and Gut Flora in an Intertidal Crab.” Ain Sukhna, Egypt. Januar-September 2013.
*Tarek Elkewidy (PENG). “Characterization of the Egyptian Oil Shale Potentials for Economical Hydrocarbon Production as Unconventional Resources Integrated with Renewable Energy.” Cairo. February 2013-February 2014.
*Sherif Safar (CANG). “Shear Strengthening of Steel Plate Girders Using CFRP.” Cairo. January-April 2013.
*Adel Salem (PENG). “Application of Nanotechnology for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Egyptian Oil Fields.” Cairo. February-May 2013.
*Mohamed Serry (MENG). “Fabrication of MEMS Microstrip Patch Antennas Utilizing Novel Flexible Nanostructured Composite Substrates for Wearable and Implantable Biomedical Applications.” KAUST, Saudi Arabia. December 2012-September 2013.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANTS
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Kim Fox (JRMC). “Sounds Elemental: Gravity.” Brooklyn, NY, USA. December 2012.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Doris Jones (RHET). “First-Year Experience: Building Best Practices for Sustainable and Life-Long Learning for AUC Students and the Community.” Orlando, FL, USA. February 2013.
*Robert Williams (ELI). “Observation and Interaction in Online Beginning Foreign Language Courses.” Chapel Hill, NC, USA. February 2013.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). “2013 ABET Assessment.” Portland, OR, USA. April 2013.
*Nagwa Sherif (CANG). “What Defines the Quality of an Architectural Student: Assessment of Screening Mechanisms for the Admission of Architectural Engineering Students at AUC.” Cairo. December 2012-April 2013.
recipients of faculty support grants for the April cycle
May 22nd, 2012
The following list includes faculty grants only. Graduate student grants are now handled exclusively by Dr. Amr Shaarawi, Dean of Graduate Studies. Please contact Dr. Shaarawi’s office for news about the status of applications for Graduate Student Grants.
My office will process the checks for the following grants as quickly as we can, but please allow some time for this to happen, since there is a very heavy workload for my assistant (Nancy Wadie) once the grant decisions are made. If you have not yet provided a letter of acceptance from the conference for which you have received a grant, no check will be issued until we receive such a letter.
CONFERENCE GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Ahmed Abdel-Meguid (ACCT). Washington, DC, USA. August 2012.
*Neveen Ahmed (MGMT). Cambridge, UK. June 2012.
*Samer Atallah (ECON). Calgary, AB, Canada. June 2012.
*Samer Atallah (ECON). Athens, Greece. July 2012.
*Mohammed Bouaddi (ECON). Montreal, QC, Canada. May 2012.
*Mohammed Bouaddi (ECON). Calgary, AB, Canada. June 2012.
*Mohamed Elbannan (ACCT). Rome. Italy. June 2012.
*Mohamed Elbannan (ACCT). Washington, DC, USA. August 2012.
*Dalia ElEdel (ECON). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
*Dalia ElEdel (ECON). Valencia, Spain. June 2012.
*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
*Ibrahim Hegazy (MGMT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
*Glenn Williams (MGMT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Hussein Amin (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2012.
*Mohamed Elmasry (JRMC). Chicago, USA. August 2012.
*Usha Natarajan (Law). Cambridge, MA, USA. May-June 2012.
*Gianluca Parolin (Law). Rabat, Morocco. June 2012.
*Gianluca Parolin (Law). Denver, USA. November 2012.
*Sheila Peuchaud (JRMC). Chicago, USA. August 2012.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Tahia Abdel Nasser (ECLT). Beirut, Lebanon. May 2012.
*Holger Albrecht (POLS). New Orleans, USA. August-September 2012.
*Soraya Altorki (SAPE). Cambridge, UK. July 2012.
*Mona Amer (SAPE). Orlando, FL, USA. August 2012.
*David Blanks (HIST). Grand Rapids, MI. August 2012.
*Jason Blum (HIST). Chicago, USA. November 2012.
*Ebony Coletu (RHET). Philadelphia, USA. May 2012.
*Ira Dworkin (ECLT). San Juan, Puerto Rico. November 2012.
*Andrea Eberle (SAPE). Rome, Italy. September 2012.
*Amina Elbendary (ARIC). Prague, Czech Republic. August-September
2012.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Paris, France. September 2012.
*Raghda El Essawi (ALI). Denver, USA. November 2012.
*Nadia Harb (ALI). Denver, USA. November 2012.
*Hani Henry (SAPE). Klagenfurt, Austria. July 2012.
*Hanan Kholoussy (HIST). Denver, USA. November 2012.
*Sanaa Makhlouf (ELI). Dubrovnik, Croatia. June 2012.
*Rose Parfitt (POLS). New York, USA. May 2012.
*Michael Reimer (HIST). Denver, USA. November 2012.
*Yasmine Salah El-Din. Ankara, Turkey. May-June 2012.
LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)
*Carolyn Runyon (Library). San Diego, USA. August 2012.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Shereef Abdelazeem (EENG). Bari, Italy. September 2012.
*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). Philadelphia, USA. July 2012.
*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). Washington, DC, USA. November 2012.
*Mohamed Aly (MENG). Chicago, USA. August 2012.
*Sherif Aly (CSCE). Istanbul, Turkey. June 2012.
*Hassan Azzazy (CHEM). Santa Clara, CA, USA. June 2012.
*Florin Balasa (CSCE). Karlsruhe, Germany. June 2012.
*Necla Demir (CHEM). Las Vegas, NV, USA. June 2012.
*Mohamed El-Morsi (MENG). Chicago, USA. August 2012.
*Nermine El Sissi (MACT). Madison, WI, USA. August 2012.
*Wafik Lotfalla (MACT). Clearwater, FL, USA. June 2012.
*Tarek Madkour (CHEM). Kobe, Japan. October 2012.
*Magda Mostafa (CANG). Barcelona, Spain. June 2012.
*Ahmed Rafea (CSCE). Groningen, The Netherlands. June 2012.
*Mohammed M. Sadek (MACT). Würzburg, Germany. August 2012.
*Sherif Saleh Safar (CANG). Dubrovnik, Croatia. September 2012.
*Mohamed Shalan (CSCE). San Francisco, USA. June 2012.
*Ahmed H. Sherif (CANG). Lima, Peru. November 2012.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Core (Teaching Fellow)
*Karl Galle (Core). “Art, Science, and the Mathematical Communities Who Brought Them Together in Renaissance Central Europe.” Nuremberg, Germany & Munich, Germany, and London, UK. July-August 2012.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Hamid Ali (PPAD). “Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development.” Cairo. June-October 2012.
*Hamid Ali (PPAD). “Oil and OPEC: Oligopoly or Oligarchy.” Cairo. June 2012-May 2013.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Richard Fincham (PHIL). “Faith and Reason: The Role of Human Skepticism in the Development of German Idealism.” Tübingen, Germany. August 2012.
*Salima Ikram (SAPE). “Plymouth Museum Animal Mummies.” Plymouth, UK. June 2012.
*Gavin Rae (PHIL). “Thinking About Thought: Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze.” Madrid, Spain. June-July 2012.
*Mark Westmoreland (SAPE). “Catastrophic Images: Documenting the Wars in Lebanon.” Beirut, Lebanon. May-June 2012.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Karim Addas (PHYS). “Force Calibration for Optical Traps Employed for Microrheology of Non-equilibrium in vitro and in vivo Cytoskeletal Systems.” Göttingen, Germany. October 2012.
*Asma Amleh (BIOL). “Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) Coated Nylon: Novel Biomaterial for Prosthetic Implants.” Cairo. June 2012-June 2013.
*Mohab Anis (EENG). “Design of Nanometer SRAM Circuits for Yield Maximization.” Cairo and Waterloo, ON, Canada. July-December 2012.
*Mahmoud Farag (MENG). “Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design, 3rd edition.” Cairo and London. June 2012-April 2013.
*Walid Fouad (BIOL). “Molecular Characterization of Transgenic Bahiagrass Expressing Regulatory and Structural Genes Conferring Freezing and Chilling Tolerances.” Gainesville, FL, USA. June 2012-Janaury 2013.
*Magdi Moustafa (MACT). “Availability of Cloud Computing Systems Subject to Hardware and Software Failures.” Storrs, CT, USA. September 2012.
*Jehane Ragai (CHEM). “Anti-tumor and Anti-LeishmanialCharacteristics of Some Nitrogen and/or Sulfur Containing Heterocyclic Compounds.” Cairo. May 2012-May 2013.
*Ahmed H. Sherif (CANG). “Sustainable Hospital Architecture: Configuration of the Window Openings of Intensive Care Units for Comfort and Energy Saving.” Cairo. September 2012-December 2012.
*Suher Zada (BIOL). “The Cytokine and Chemokine Profiles in Egyptian
Hepatitis C Virus Genotype-4 in Relation to Liver Disease Progression.” Cairo. June 2012-May 2013.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). “Case Teaching Workshop.” London, ON, Canada. August 2012.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Ahmed Moustafa (BIOL). “Development of Course: Systems and Comparative Genomics.” Roscoff, France and Reykjavik, Iceland. June 2012.
recipients of faculty support grants for the February cycle
March 6th, 2012
The following list includes only faculty grants. Graduate student grants are now handled exclusively by Dr. Amr Shaarawi, Dean of Graduate Studies. Please contact Dean Shaarawi’s office for news about graduate student grant applications.
My office will process the checks for the following grants as quickly as we can, but please allow some time for processing, since there is a very heavy workload for my assistant, Nancy Wadie, once the grant decisions are made. If you have not yet provided a letter of acceptance from a conference for which you have received a grant, no check will be issued until we receive such a letter.
CONFERENCE GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Mohamad Al-Issis (ECON). Stanford, CA, USA. April 2012.
*Nizar Becheikh (MGMT). Hsinchu, Taiwan. March 2012.
*Khaled Dahawy (ACCT). Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2012.
*Hala El-Ramly (ECON). Rome, Italy. June 2012.
*Mohamed Hegazy (ACCT). Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2012.
*Mohamed Hegazy (ACCT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
*Dina Rateb (MGMT). Provo, UT, USA. April 2012.
*Dina Rateb (MGMT). Vienna, Austria. May 2012.
*Hamed Shamma (MGMT). Milan, Italy. May-June 2012.
*Khaled Soliman (MGMT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
*Samir Youssef (MGMT). Nottingham, United Kingdom. April 2012.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Dalia Ashmawi (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2012.
*Kim Fox (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2012.
*Benjamin Geer (MEST). Beirut, Lebanon. July 2012.
*Naila Hamdy (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2012.
*Naila Hamdy (JRMC). London, United Kingdom. April 2012.
GSE (Graduate School of Education)
*Ana Gil Garcia (GSE). Vancouver, Canada. April 2012.
*Ted Purinton (GSE). Barcelona, Spain. June 2012.
*Stacie Rissmann-Joyce (GSE). San Juan, Puerto Rico. April 2012.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Hala Abd AlHak (SAPE). San Juan, Puerto Rico. April 2012.
*Mona Amer (SAPE). Cape Town, South Africa. July 2012.
*Mariam Ayad (SAPE). Providence, RI, USA. April 2012.
*Dalia Basiouny (PVA). Dearborn, MI, USA. May-June 2012.
*Amy Carrillo (SAPE). Cape Town, South Africa. July 2012.
*Victoria Clark (RHET). Lodz, Poland. May 2012.
*Matthew Crippen (PHIL). Windsor, ON, Canada. April 2012.
*Matthew Crippen (PHIL). Waterloo, ON, Canada. May 2012.
*Aissa Deebi (PVA). Austin, TX, USA. March 2012.
*Ira Dworkin (ECLT). Beirut, Lebanon. May 2012.
*Rasha Essam (ALI). Lexington, KY, USA. April 2012.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Loughborough, England. March 2012.
*Atta Gebril (ELI). Ankara, Turkey. May-June 2012.
*Camilo Gómez-Rivas (ARIC). Toronto, Canada. April 2012.
*Hani Henry (SAPE). Las Vegas, USA. February 2012.
*Abeer Heider (ALI). Bologna, Italy. March 2012.
*Sean McMahon (POLS). Madrid, Spain. July 2012.
*Yasmine Motawy (RHET). London, United Kingdom. August 2012.
*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). Santa Clara, CA, USA. April 2012.
*Alissa Nostas (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2012.
*Bernard O’Kane (ARIC). Philadelphia, USA. March-April 2012.
*Rashmika Pandya (PHIL). Tallinn, Estonia. May-June 2012.
*Gavin Rae (PHIL). London, United Kingdom. February 2012. (retroactive)
*Heba Salem (PHIL). Oxford, United Kingdom. May 2012.
*Shahira Yacout (ALI). Denver, USA. November 2012.
LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)
*Meggan Houlihan (Library). Anahaeim, CA, USA. June 2012.
*Hoda Mostafa (CLT). Buffalo, NY, USA. May 2012.
*Carolyn Runyon (Library). Anaheim, CA, USA. June 2012.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Mohamed Abdel-Mooty (CANG). São Paulo, Brazil. July 2012.
*Sherif Aly (CSCE). Lugano, Switzerland. March 2012.
*Asma Amleh (BIOL). Montreal, Canada. November 2011. (retroactive)
*Mustafa Arafa (MENG). Chicago, USA. August 2012.
*Hassan Azzazy (CHEM). Frankfurt, Germany. March 2012.
*Rachid Belhachemi (MACT). Venice, Italy. April 2012.
*Gregg De Young (MACT). Seoul, South Korea. July 2012.
*Mohamed Elbarkouky (CANG). Edmonton, Canada. June 2012.
*Lamyaa El-Gabry (MENG). Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2012.
*Jeff Langman (CORE). Venice, Italy. June 2012.
*Khaled Nassar (CANG). Birmingham, UK. April 2012.
*Ahmed Rafea (CSCE). Dublin, Ireland. June 2012.
*Karim Seddik (EENG). Paris, France. April 2012.
*Mohamed Shalan (CSCE). San Francisco, USA. June 2012.
*Nagwa Sherif (CANG). Paris, France. July 2012.
RESEARCH GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Mohamad Al-Ississ (ECON). “Eliciting the Price of Religiosity Through a Laboratory Experiment on Islamic Banking.” Cairo. March 2012-March 2013.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). “Hybridizing Ant Colony and Particle Swarm Optimization.” Rolla, MO, USA. August 2012.
*Nageh K. Allam (PHYS). “Design and Assembly of Nanostructured Electrodes for Solar-Driven Fuel Production.” Cambridge, MA, USA & Cairo. April 2012-January 2013.
*Florin Balasa (CSCE). “Power Analysis and Optimization Techniques for the Memory System in Digital Signal Processing.” Leuven, Belgium & Cairo. October 2012-September 2013.
*Salah El-Haggar (MENG). “Natural Fiber Plastic Composites.” Cairo. March 2012-March 2013.
*Amal Esawi (MENG). “Hierarchically-Designed Ultra High Strength Materials.” Cairo. Summer 2012-Summer 2013.
*Ali Hadi (MACT). “Regression Analysis by Example, Fifth Edition.” New York, USA & Cairo. February-August, 2012.
*Ezzeldin Soliman (PHYS). “Novel Micromachined Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRA) for mm-Wave Applications.” Leuven, Belgium & Cairo. June-July 2012.
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT GRANT
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Maki Habib (MENG). “Mechatronics Engineering: Research Development and Education.” Aveiro, Portugal. March 2012-January 2013.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Sheila Peuchaud (JRMC). “Multimedia Bootcamp.” Chapel Hill, NC, USA. May 2012.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences
*Sophie Farag (ELI). “Building Prospective Group Dynamics” & “Successful Pronunciation Teaching and Learning.” Canterbury, United Kingdom. Summer 2012.
*Christopher Faulk (RHET). “2012 Digital Media and Composition Institute.” Columbus, OH, USA. Summer 2012.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). “2012 ABET Assessment Workshop and Program.” St. Louis, USA. April 2012.
*Tarek Madkour (CHEM). “Developing Modeling and Simulation Learing Module Units for the Food Chemistry Course: CHEM 519, ‘Practical Approaches to Food Analysis.’” Cairo. March–May 2012.
CO-ORDINATION OF A CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANT
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Salima Ikram (SAPE). “First International Chariot Conference (FICC).” Cairo. November-December 2012.
LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)
*Aziza El Lozy (CLT). “Challenges and Practices of Pedagogy and Instructional Technology: Professional Development for Palestinian Educators.” Cairo. March 2012.
recipients of Faculty Support Grants for the September cycle
October 18th, 2011
Dear Colleagues:
What follows is a list of all Faculty Support Grants approved from the September application cycle. (Graduate Student Grants are now handled by Dr. Amr Shaarawi, Dean of Graduate Studies; inquiries can be made with his office.) All unsuccessful applicants have already been informed by email. If you think you have been wrongly omitted from the list, or if there is a typographical or other error in your listing, please let me know at gharman@aucegypt.edu. Such mistakes are easy to fix. Please note that under the new travel policy, my office will initially only be processing checks for the non-travel portion of your grant. As for the travel portion, you can either (a) book your tickets through the AUC Travel Office, or (b) book them yourself. The procedures for the two cases are as follows:
(a) The Travel Office will receive a list from me of everyone approved for travel for this cycle, including the destination and approximate dates. Since not everyone will choose to use the Travel Office, they will not automatically book your tickets for you; you must contact them to make this request, but please wait until at least Sunday, October 23 before doing so. Once the Travel Office tells us that you are booking through them, we will then pay the cost. Naturally, this amount will count against your annual maximum (which is $3,500 for Conference Grants and $6,500 for Research Grants).
(b) If you choose to book the tickets yourself, you must be reimbursed after travel is complete, after presenting your boarding passes for the whole of the trip. Please note that the amount of reimbursement will be determined by the Travel Office. If for some reason you need a more complicated itinerary than direct travel to the research/conference site, you are allowed to book such an itinerary, but of course you will only be reimbursed for what the fair price would have been for a direct route. Naturally, this amount will count against your annual maximum.
Important Note: faculty are not allowed more than the maximum amount in each grant category for any reason. If for example the airfare and per diem for a distant conference add up to more than $3,500, you may be left with some out-of-pocket expenses. Faculty are encouraged to consider this point when deciding on which conferences to attend during any given academic year.
Another Important Note (October 19): We do not process Conference Grants for which the letter of acceptance is still pending until the letter of acceptance is forwarded to my office.
Dr. Graham Harman, Associate Provost for Research Administration
CONFERENCE GRANTS
BUS (School of Business)
*Neveen Ahmed (MGMT). Washington, DC, USA. November 2011.
*Mohamad Al-Ississ (ECON). Chicago, USA. January 2012.
*Hala El-Ramly (ECON). Chicago, USA. January 2012.
*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). Bangkok, Thailand. December 2011.
*Maha Mourad (MGMT). Venice, Italy. January 2012.
*Maha Mourad (MGMT). Nicosia, Cyprus. March 2012.
*Samir Youssef (MGMT). Rotterdam, The Netherlands. June 2012.
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Hamid Ali (PPAD). Chicago, USA. January 2012.
*Timothy Dolan (PPAD). Penang, Malaysia. December 2011.
*Mohamad Elmasry (JRMC). Beirut, Lebanon. October 2011.
*Kim Fox (JRMC). Beirut, Lebanon. October 2011.
*Naila Hamdy (JRMC). Beirut, Lebanon. October 2011.
*Kevin Keenan (JRMC). Beirut, Lebanon. October 2011.
*Kevin Keenan (JRMC). Juba, South Sudan. November 2011.
*Usha Natarajan (LAW). Eugene, Oregon, USA. October 2011.
*AKM Ahsan Ullah (CMRS). Phuket, Thailand. May 2012.
GSE (Graduate School of Education)
*Ana Gil Garcia (GSE). Madrid, Spain. November 2011.
*Ted Purinton (GSE). Rhodes, Greece. January 2012.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Zeinab Abul-Magd (HIST). Washington, DC, USA. December 2011.
*Holger Albrecht (POLS). Washington, DC, USA. December 2011.
*Stancil Campbell (PVA). Long Beach, CA, USA. March 2012.
*Agnes Czajka (SAPE). Berlin, Germany. October 2011.
*Sophie Farag (ELI). Glasgow, Scotland. March 2012.
*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Antigua, Guatemala. November 2011.
*Camilo Gómez-Rivas (ARIC). Washington, DC, USA. November-December 2011.
*Joseph Hill (SAPE). Montreal, Canada. November 2011.
*Amy Holmes (SAPE). Boston, USA. November 2011.
*Nagwa Kassabgy (ELI). Chicago, USA. November 2011.
*Sara Magrin (PHIL). Ithaca NY. October 2011.
*Sanaa Makhlouf (ELI). Ankara, Turkey. October 2011.
*Javed Maswood (POLS). Taiwan. November 2011.
*Sean McMahon (POLS). Dunedin, New Zealand. November-December, 2011.
*William Melaney (ECLT). Pittsburgh, USA. October 2011.
*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). Washington, DC, USA. December 2011.
*Bernard O’Kane (ARIC). Sydney, Australia. October 2011.
*Rashmika Pandya (PHIL). Reykjavik, Iceland. November 2011.
*Rose Parfitt (POLS). Helsinki, Finland. October 2011.
*Sylvain Perdigon (SAPE). Washington, DC, USA. December 2011.
*Susanne Rizzo (ELI). Philadelphia, USA. March 2012.
*Yasmine Salah El-Din (ELI). Chicago, USA. November 201
*Ann Shafer (PVA). San Francisco, USA. November 2011.
*Mohammed Tabishat (SAPE). Montreal, Canada. November 2011.
*Mark Westmoreland (SAPE). New Orleans, USA. November 2011.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Nageh K. Allam (PHYS). Boston, USA. November-December 2011.
*Christian Bauriedel (CANG). Nairobi, Kenya & Madrid, Spain. November 2011.
*Ali Darwish (EENG). Montreal, Canada. June 2012.
*Sherine Elbaradei (CANG). Sharjah, UAE. November 2011.
*Tarek Elkewidy (PENG). Bangkok, Thailand. November 2011.
*Maki Habib (MENG). Oita, Japan. January 2012.
*Ali Hadi (MACT). Lahore, Pakistan. December 2011.
*Tarek Madkour (CHEM). Tokyo, Japan. December 2011.
*Khaled Nassar (CANG). Weimar, Germany. November 2011.
*Ahmed Rafea (CSCE). Alexandria. October 2011.
*Hanadi Salem (MENG). Orlando, Florida, USA. March 2012.
*Mohamed Hassan Sayed (PENG). Washington, DC, USA. October 2011.
RESEARCH GRANTS
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Naila Hamdy (JRMC). “Prediction of Media Credibility in Egypt’s Post-Revolution Transitional Phase.” Cairo. October-December 2011.
HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
*Mariam Ayad (SAPE). “Epigraphic Fieldwork in the Tomb of Harwa (TT37).” Luxor. December 2011-January 2012.
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Ahmed Abou-Auf (EENG). “Fault Modeling ad Worst-Case Test Vectors for Delay Failure Induced in CMOS ASIC Devices by Total Ionizing Radiation.” Cairo. October 2011-September 2012.
*Wael Ahmed (CHEM). “Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites as Surface Coatings for Biomolecular Absorption.” Cairo. October 2011-October 2012.
*Edwin Cruz-Rivera (BIOL). “The Role of Structural Versus Chemical Defenses in Turbinaria.” El Gouna, Egypt. November 2011-June 2012.
*Maki Habib (MENG). “Design and Development of GSM Based Remote Control and Monitoring System.” Cairo. October 2011-October 2012.
*Tarek Madkour (CHEM). Cairo. “Development of the Molecular Parameters for the Design of New Nano-Structured Highly Permeable and Highly Selective Polyimide Membranes for the Green Separation of Natural Gas.” Cairo. September 2011-June 2012.
*Tamer Shoeib (CHEM). Cairo. “Theoretical Modeling and Structural Analysis of Gluathione Complexes with the Anti-Cancer Drugs Cisplatin and Oxaliplatin.” Cairo. November 2011-October 2012.
*Mohamed Swillam (PHYS). “Design and Fabrication of Nanoscale Plasmonic Networks.” Toronto, Canada. November 2011-October 2012.
TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT
SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)
*Mohamed Aly (MENG). “Development of Drawing and Dimensioning Library for Mechanical Components According to Different International Drawing Standards.” Cairo. December 2011-December 2012.
*Lamyaa El-Gabry (MENG). “Sustainable Solar Systems in Mechanical Engineering.” Egypt, Spain. December 2011-December 2012.
*Basil Kamel (CANG). “Design Methodology: Studies in Design Studio Experiential Learning.” Cairo. October 2011-August 2012.
CO-ORDINATION OF A CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANT
GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Thomas Skouteris (LAW). “International Law and the Periphery,” in co-operation with the University of Sydney, Australia. February 2012.
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 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.
