Faculty Bulletin

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.

Allow me to begin by thanking all AUC faculty for their patience during the current grant cycle. Following our announced two-week delay due to the September strike, there was another, unexpected delay as the Associate Provost for Research Administration was trapped in New York by Hurricane Sandy.

As always, 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)

*Hala El-Ramly (ECON). San Diego, CA, USA. January 2013.

*Mohamad al-Issis (ECON). Beirut, Lebanon. December 2012.

*Maha Mourad (MGMT). Tallinn, Estonia. November 2012.

*Dina Rateb (MGMT). Barcelona, Spain. November 2012.

*Pierre Rostan (MGMT). Cape Town, South Africa. November 2012.

*Tarek Selim (ECON). Pittsburgh, PA, USA. May-June 2012.

*Samir Youssef (MGMT). Orlando, FL, USA. January 2013.

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Hamid Ali (PPAD). Ifrane, Morocco. November 2012.

*Ronnie Close (JRMC). Brighton, UK. October 2012.

*Mohamed Elmasry (JRMC). Atlanta, USA. November 2012.

*Shems Friedlander (JRMC). London, UK. October 2012.

GSE (Graduate School of Education)

*Gihan Osman (GSE). Louisville, KY, USA. October-November, 2012.

*Stacie Rissmann-Joyce. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. March 2013.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*Ashraf Abdou (ALI). Madrid, Spain. September 2012.

*Ebony Coletu (RHET). San Juan, Puerto Rico. November 2012.

*Matthew Crippen (PHIL). Calgary, AB, Canada. October 2012.

*Sayyed Daifallah (ALI). Denver, CO. November 2012.

*Ibrahim Elnur (POLS). Japan. November 2012.

*Sophie Farag (ELI). Liverpool, UK. April 2013.

*Atta Gebril (ELI). Dubai, UAE. November 2012.

*Allana Haist (RHET). Belfast, Northern Ireland. November 2012

*Rasha Hassan (ALI). Denver, USA. November 2012.

*Azza Hassanein (ALI). Denver, CO. November 2012.

*Ivan Ivekovic (POLS). Japan. November 2012.

*Ellen Kenney (ARIC). New York, USA. October 2012.

*Sanaa Makhlouf (ELI). Dallas, USA. March 2013.

*Mark Mikhael (RHET). Orlando, FL, USA. January 2013.

*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). Istanbul, Turkey. August 2012.

*Bernard O’Kane (ARIC). New York, USA. October 2012.

*Jee-Kwang Park (POLS). Orlando, FL, USA. January 2013.

*Julia Seibert (HIST). Philadelphia, USA. November-December 2012.

*Bonnie Settlage (SAPE). Lima, Peru. March 2013.

*Surti Singh (PHIL). Rochester, NY, USA. November 2012.

*Mohammed Tabishat (SAPE). San Francisco, USA. November 2012.

*Adam Talib (ARIC). Portland, OR, USA March 2013.

*Timothy Warren (RHET). Doha, Qatar. November 2012.

*Mark Westmoreland (SAPE). Canberra, Australia. December 2012.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). Bali, Indonesia. November 2012.

*Hassan Azzazy (CHEM). Venice, Italy. October 2012.

*Florin Balasa (CSCE). Chonqin, China. October 2012.

*Gregg De Young (MACT). Rohtak, India. November 2012.

*Samer Ezeldin (CANG). Melbourne, Australia. December 2012.

*Justin Grubich (BIOL). San Francisco, USA. January 2013.

*Maki Habib (MENG). Daejeon, South Korea. January-February 2013.

*Wael Hassan (CANG). Pittsburgh, PA, USA. May 2013.

*Hoda Mostafa (CLT). Orlando, FL, USA. January 2013.

*Mohamed Moustafa (CSCE). Ouro Preto, Brazil. August 2012.

*Khaled Nassar (CANG). Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2012.

*Hanadi Salem (MENG). San Antonio, TX, USA. March 2013.

RESEARCH GRANTS

BUS (School of Business)

*Iman Seoudi (MGMT). “Toward Venture Capital Policy Framework in the New Egypt.” Cairo. October 2012-December 2013.

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Hamid Ali (PPAD). “Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development.” Cairo. June-October 2012.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*Aissa Deebi (Arts). “The Pavilion of Palestine in Venice Biennale 55.” Venice, Italy. September 2012-June 2013.

*Amy Austin Holmes. (SAPE) “The Specter of the Arab Spring: Popular Uprisings, Sectarian Strife, and Civil Military Relations in Egypt and Bahrain.” London, UK & Manama, Bahrain. January 2013.

*Sam Haselby (HIST). “The Impact of the Opium Trade and China Missions on Anglo-American Protestantism.” Cambridge, MA. December 2012-January 2013.

*Jee-Kwang Park (POLS). “Crime, Fear of Crime Victimization, and Judicial Election.” Cambridge, MA and Cairo. October 2012-February 2013.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Mina Abd-el-Malek (MACT). “Application of the Lie Group Method for Solving Boundary Value Problems.” Cairo. October 2012-July 2013.

*Ali Darwish (EENG). “Thermal and Linearity Analysis of GaN MMICs.” Cairo. October 2012-August 2013.

*Khaled El-Ayat (CSCE). “Cubesat Pico Satellite.” Cairo. September 2012-December 2013.

*Khalil Elkhodary (MENG). “Computational Modeling of Continuum Curvature Due to Inhomogeneous Deformations.” Cairo. October 2012-October 2013.

*Salah El-Sheikh (PHYS). “Preparation and Characterization of Pb-Ge-Te and Sn-Ge-Te Ferroelectric Low band Gap Semiconductor Alloys in Bulk and Thin Film States.” Cairo. June 2012-June 2013.

*Yasser Gadallah (EENG). “Towards an End-to-End Information Access: Investigating the Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks and Broadband Wireless Access Networks.” Cairo. November 2012-August 2013.

*Justin Grubich (BIOL). “Territory Size and Growth Rates in the Red Sea Lionfish (Pterois miles).” El Gouna, Egypt. October 2012-September 2013.

*Mohamed Swillam. (PHYS). “Novel Nanophotonic Devices.” Toronto, Canada. November 2012-October 2013.

*El Sayed M. Zanoun (MENG). “Interior and Exterior Flow Field Investigations for Compartment of a Passenger Car.” Cairo. January 2013-December 2013.

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Allison Hodgkins (PPAD). “Keeping the King’s Peace: The 1994 Wadi Araba Treaty and Jordan’s National Interest.” Amman, Jordan. December 2012-January 2013.

TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANTS

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Ashraf Abdelbar (CSCE). “Annual ABET Assessment Symposium.” Portland, OR, USA. April 2013.

COORDINATION OF CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANTS

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Basil Kamel (CANG). “Integrating the Nile in Urban Development.” Cairo and Nile Delta, Egypt. Spring 2013.

*Magda Mostafa (CANG). “Sustainable Interventions in Urban Cairo.” Cairo. November 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, 3^rd 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.

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.

With this post we are pleased to announce the latest winners of the AUC Merit Awards for Excellence in Academic Service, Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors, and Excellence in Teaching. As usual, the juries had very difficult choices to make this semester, given the overall quality of the nominee pools. All nominations remain active for two years, and are renewable

Award winners are chosen by juries made up of past winners. For a full list of past winners, see the following webpage:

http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/awards/Pages/default.aspx

Each Award will be presented at the appropriate February Commencement Ceremony. For Research it will be Graduate Commencement on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. For Service and Teaching it will be Undergraduate Commencement on Friday, February 11, 2011. Winners are expected to attend so that we may honor them.

Excellence in Academic Service

•Adham Ramadan, Department of Chemistry

Adham is an AUC alumnus, and joined our faculty in 2003. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Chemistry. His helpfulness and good attitude are legendary on campus; no one remembers any case of Adham refusing a request or complaining about anything in even the most stressful of situations. But perhaps the most striking aspect of his service record is its remarkable breadth. Indeed, it is difficult to keep track of the many aspects of campus life in which Adham is involved. As a member of the Institutional Review Board his analysis of cases is thorough and almost instant. Within the Department of Chemistry and the School of Sciences and Engineering, he is widely praised for his meticulous work in assessing and improving university equipment and facilities. In the AUC Senate, he brings energy and enthusiasm to every policy discussion he joins. In the Registrar’s Office he is valued for his tireless committee work in considering special student cases. His warmly welcoming spirit is also evident in his participation in both New Faculty Orientation and the Freshman Year Experience, in both of which his performance has reportedly been outstanding. But all of this is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Adham’s service record, which is impossible to summarize in a paragraph.

Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors. (2 winners.)

•Ashraf Abdelbar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Ashraf is an AUC alumnus, and joined our faculty in 1996. He has more than 50 refereed publications in international journals and conference proceedings. On a remarkably consistent basis, Ashraf publishes articles with discernible impact on other researchers in his field, as witnessed by his lead authorship role in such journal articles as “Approximating MAPs for belief networks is NP-hard and other theorems” and “Approximating cost-based abduction is NP-hard,” both in Artificial Intelligence, and “Abductive reasoning with recurrent neural networks” in Neural Networks. Studies of swarm intelligence are also part of his recent research agenda. While the titles of Ashraf’s articles may sound forbiddingly specialized to an outsider, they and his other publications have been greatly esteemed by readers in fields other than computer science. We salute his consistent track record of research productivity.

•Hanadi Salem, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Hanadi is an AUC alumna, and joined our faculty in 1999. Her field of specialty is nanotechnology: the manipulation of physical matter at the tiny scale of molecules and even atoms, in which AUC has recently become an emerging power. Hanadi has over 50 international publications in journals and conference proceedings, and has received numerous grants in the field of nanomaterials synthesis and processing for high performance applications, all while supervising more than 40 Master’s and Ph.D. students. Since 2003 her research interests have focused on the synthesis and fabrication of nanomaterials starting from micronpowders refined into nanosized powder particles with nanosize internal structure. Hanadi was the lead author of several widely cited recent articles, including “Microstructure and retention of superplasticity of friction stir welded superplastic 2095 sheet” and “Friction stir weld evolution of dynamically recrystallized AA 2095 weldments,” which both appeared in Scripta Materiala, and “Friction stir welding parameters: a tool for controlling abnormal grain growth during subsequent heat treatment” in Materials Science and Engineering A. Before returning to Egypt she worked as a research associate in the United States at both Georgia Tech and the University of South Carolina.

Excellence in Teaching. (2 winners.)

•Mona Amer, Psychology Unit (Department of SAPE)

Mona is an AUC alumna, and joined our faculty in 2007. Her dedication to teaching has long been obvious from the quantity and quality of student research that emerges from her classes, much of it displaying intellectual courage. Her student following is already large, with many saying they chose Psychology as a major or minor after being inspired by one of her courses. Mona devotes large blocks of personal time to course preparation and grading in a manner that goes well beyond the call of duty. The following student speaks for many others whose comments we received: “I never studied under a professor who cared to give such detailed and thorough feedback on papers and reports.” Another called Mona “the most fair, hardworking professor I have ever met, who offers support in all areas of life and is always ready to lend a helping hand… She answers our e-mails at night and is always the first person online in the morning. She’s always ready to give feedback and answer questions [instead of being] sick of us.” In her brief AUC career so far, despite her demanding workloads in the classroom, Mona has clearly inspired the enthusiasm of the student population.

•Iman Soliman, Arabic Language Institute

Iman is the Executive Director of CASA (Center for Arabic Study Abroad), one of AUC’s most internationally renowned programs. She joined the AUC faculty in 2006. Student reports from her classes indicate that she inspires loyalty and sometimes even amazement. One special talent cited by students is her ability to explain the intricacies of Arabic grammar simply and clearly. “She speaks immaculate fus’ha,” writes one student. Also noteworthy, say many who know her, is Iman’s natural ability to discipline even the most chaotic group of students in gentle fashion. One international student, who begins by admitting that he needed some discipline himself, continues as follows: “Hands down, she is the best teacher I have ever had; I have never had a teacher who made class so productive and captivating as she did. She even went so far as to go to a movie with us and take us to her home and cook amazing food.” Beyond the positive responses of students, she is cited by colleagues as an important force in curriculum development, not only within CASA but also in work for the Supreme Council of Education. To close this summary with a final student comment: “Iman Soliman displays infinite patience with the class when we don’t understand and is willing to repeat things for as often as it takes. She keeps us on track with a constant workload and does not get lazy when we get lazy towards the end of the school year.”

Please congratulate our newest winners the next time you see them.

As some of you may have noticed, 4 of our 5 Award winners were AUC students themselves. This is something of which we can all be proud.

The next set of Awards will be announced in April or May, well in advance of the Summer Commencement ceremonies. For any questions about the nomination process, please contact me at gharman@aucegypt.edu.