Faculty merit awards
May 20th, 2012
Our three Award juries have just decided the latest winners of the AUC Faculty Merit Awards for Excellence in Academic Service, Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors, and Excellence in Teaching. I would like to thank the jurors for their tireless work in evaluating the many high-quality applications received this semester.
Juries include a mix of recent past Award winners and representatives from each of the Schools. Winners will be honored at the June Commencement ceremonies.
For a full list of past Award winners, please see the following webpage (today’s winners will be added to the list within the next few days):
http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/awards/Pages/default.aspx
Each Award will be presented at one of the two Commencement Ceremonies to be held on Friday, June 15. For Research and Creative Endeavors it will be Graduate Commencement; for Academic Service and Teaching it will be Undergraduate Commencement. Winners are expected to attend so that we may honor them in public.
Excellence in Academic Service
•Ibrahim Hegazy, Department of Management
Ibrahim joined AUC in 1992. This semester’s jury was impressed by the long duration and consistency of his service to the School of Business. In 2001 he won the Harold Harrison Faculty Award from the International Advertising Association, which pointed to the same types of achievements noted today by the AUC Excellence in Service Award jury. Colleagues express their gratitude that during his time as Chair of the Department of Management he was instrumental in receiving AACSB accreditation. Another writes that “he is always committed to offering the best for achieving academic excellence. Dr. Hegazy is always available and makes himself available for students and members of the AUC community.” Numerous jury members expressed that they have enjoyed serving with him on numerous committees at various levels of the University, both inside and outside the Senate. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute of Management Development at AUC, which has been described as one of Egypt’s leading training centers. With the firm support of the jury, he is this semester’s winner of the AUC Excellence in Academic Service Award.
Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors
•Hamza El Dorry, Department of Biology
Hamza joined AUC in 2006. Though a native Egyptian, he spent many years in Brazil at the University of São Paulo before returning to the banks of the Nile. Hamza is so modest about his research achievements that only with difficulty did we persuade him to submit materials after he was nominated for the Award by a colleague. According to his AUC webpage, Hamza’s research interests are principally in the area of enzymology and the regulation of metabolic pathways, regulation of gene expression, and structural and functional genomics. His 2007 article in Science, “Genome Sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector,” has been cited nearly 400 times in the literature, and he has also published in the prestigious Nature. Other heavily cited articles from Hamza’s research dossier include “The Contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome” and “Antisense intronic non-coding RNA levels correlate to the degree of tumor differentiation in prostate cancer.” He is also praised by colleagues for having greatly enhanced the research projects of other AUC faculty and students, and for having contributed to the establishment of the AUC genomics facility, the first high throughput genomics facility in Egypt and one of very few in the region. AUC is fortunate to have lured Hamza back to Egypt from the nation of Brazil, which he loves so well.
Excellence in Teaching (2 winners)
•Melanie Carter, Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Melanie joined AUC in 2004. In the words of a colleague, her teaching “is characterized by her quiet, unobtrusive competence and excellence. She sees what needs to be done and she goes about doing it.” Her teaching is also praised for its student-centered approach, which allows students the space to find their own voices as writers. (As many know, Melanie is an accomplished writer herself). She is also cited for her unusual intuitive sense of the varying sensibilities of different students. Described as “one of the kindest and friendliest professors, who provides a safe and welcoming atmosphere for students,” she produced what one observer called a “literary miracle” in leading a classroom of novice students to produce a volume of beautiful poetry after just one semester of her poetry writing class. Though course syllabi are often dreadfully boring documents meant only to fulfill bureaucratic requirements, Melanie’s syllabi are a pleasure to read, and clearly convey the welcoming and inspiring classroom style to which so many of her students refer. More generally, as one student put it: “Dr. Melanie is the most marvelous professor I have ever met. She is really a role model for how the professor should be.”
•Hanan Kholoussy, Department of History
Hanan joined AUC in 2008 and made an immediate impression on students. Her student evaluations are a feast of diverse positive comments, but she is praised with especial regularity for a passion for the subject of history and her objectivity in presenting all sides of every question fairly. Some students have even urged that all other AUC students be forcibly enrolled in her HIST 247 class, “The Making of the Modern Arab World,” which is praised for shedding new light on the current situation in the region. Hanan earns widespread praise for providing helpful feedback on papers. As one student writes, “she is so professional and punctual and is very thorough with her students. She gives them limitless office hours and is always available for feedback. I can’t stop talking about this professor because she is amazing.” Her faculty colleagues are equally impressed. One calls her “a natural” in the classroom, but also describes her as “being deeply committed to honing her craft and to making every class and every course better than the one before.” Another says that Hanan “has earned a reputation as a courageous, committed, and creative teacher.”
Please congratulate our newest winners the next time you see them. The next set of Awards will be announced in December 2012, for presentation at the February 2013 Commencement ceremonies. For any questions about the nomination or selection process, please contact me at gharman@aucegypt.edu.
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.
