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.

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.