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The sixth Undergraduate Conference in Information Systems (UCIS), held on February 27, focused on “Humanizing Information Technology (IT),” and submissions considered the evolving role of IT in all facets of human life. The Most Promising Research Award went to Dana…
The Q-SmartLab Trading Hackathon took place last week, with team Polaris finishing on top. The winning team included Alfred Godwin Ravindrakumar, Anthony Lo and Yijun Dong. The competition took place over three trials which corresponded to three live trading days…
The second annual Hamad Bin Khalifa University Career Fair took place on February 1 and 2, with over 100 employers from finance, media, oil and gas, technology, education and research. CMU-Q collaborated with other Education City universities to organize the…
The third Dress for Success Fashion Show took place January 28, a collaboration between the student-run CMU-Q CMBA club and Northwestern University in Qatar’s career services. The event showcased outfits for different professional settings. The fashion show is a favorite…
Fourteen students traveled to Jebel Shams, a mountainous area outside of Muscat, as the capstone activity to the semester-long GPS program. Students worked as a team to set up camp and complete a series of mental and physical challenges over…
Five students from the CMU-Q debating society showcased their debating skills at the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) over the winter break. Yousuf Akhlaq, Tehseen Niaz, Shahan Ali Memon, Moussa Zekak and Farha Khan travelled to Thessaloniki, Greece, to compete…
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…
CMU-Q is pleased to welcome three exchange students from the Pittsburgh campus. Joseph Hill, a junior, visited Doha previously for the IMPAQT program, and will be doing an internship at Al Jazeera. Thomas (TJ) Murray, also a junior and previous…
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,…
