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The largest hackathon in CMU-Q history took place on January 22 and 23, with 74 participants forming 20 teams. Sponsored by Ooredoo, the CarnegieApps Hackathon is an annual programming competition for university students, where individuals and teams compete in a…
Osaama Shehzad, a computational biology sophomore, has created an app called “Game of Proteins” to help undergraduates learn amino acids. “The idea for my app came toward the end of my freshman year, when I saw a friend of mine…
Dudley Reynolds delivered opening remarks at the International Conference on English Language Teaching on January 15 at Qatar University. Reynolds stated that English language teaching “empowers individuals in a world where multilingualism is not just an asset or expectation, it…
The Biological Sciences program at Carnegie Mellon Qatar featured its flagship phage genomics research lab at the Sidra Functional Genomics Symposium recently. The phage genomics lab is a program that takes place over the students’ first year. Students obtain soil…
Maher Hakim, associate professor of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), presented the inaugural session of Qatar Foundation Research and Development’s ‘Research Dialogue.’ Hakim’s presentation, “Building an Innovation Ecosystem in Qatar,” discusses how to foster creativity and entrepreneurship.…
At the Euromoney Qatar Conference last week, CMU-Q demonstrated the integration of technology and finance by superimposing real-time financial information on a satellite image of the globe. The result was a heat map of financial activity that revealed how regional…
Sixty-five learners were honored for completing Language Bridges, a program that offers English classes to low-income migrant workers. The ceremony, held on November 29, was the capstone of a semester that saw 42 CMU-Q students teach English to service attendants,…
George White, distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and the founder of the Al Fikra competition, was awarded a Prestigious Appreciation Award for his contribution in creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurship in Qatar. White is the…
CMU-Q placed third in Enterprise Challenge Qatar 2015, a competition designed to develop the spirit of entrepreneurship in young people. Awais Shamim, Faran Farooq, Mounir Sheikh, Sherif Rizk and Ibrahim Soltan were on the team Price Takers, taking third place…
Carnegie Mellon offered a glimpse into the future of traffic safety at the International Traffic Medicine Association (ITMA) conference in Doha. A pioneer in the area of autonomous vehicles, Carnegie Mellon celebrated 30 years of self-driving car technology last year.…
