Faculty Bulletin

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.

*Angie Zaher (ACCT). Houston, Texas, USA. March 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, 6^th International Conference Mechanics and Material in Design. AUC New Campus, November 2011.

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

(FOLLOW-UP: if your name is spelled incorrectly on this list, or if you see any other error in the information, please contact me immediately at gharman@aucegypt.edu; it is very easy to make changes on the Bulletin and you won't be troubling me at all. We want to get everything right.)

CONFERENCE GRANTS

BUS (School of Business)

*Nahed Amin Azab (Management). Orlando, Florida. March 2011.

*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)

*Holger Albrecht (Political Science). Pisa, Italy. April 2011.

*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

BUS (School of Business)

*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.