Virtual Convocation Ceremony, Class of 2024
2020-08-20 18:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Moscow)
Convocation is a long-standing university tradition that is held on or before the first day of classes of the fall semester. It is the official start of the academic year, and the welcoming of the incoming class to Carnegie Mellon University.
Following Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s long standing tradition, the Class of 2023 is presented with a tile engraved with their graduation year. The tile will be installed in the walkway of the CMU-Q building when the class graduates in 2024.
This year, the Convocation ceremony will take place online.

Orientation, Class of 2024
2020-08-09 08:00 - 2020-08-20 17:00 (Europe/Moscow)
Orientation is a mandatory program for incoming first-year students that is a dynamic and engaging experience that introduces you to the expectations, culture, and traditions of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Through meaningful one-on-one relationships with upper-class student mentors and connections with university resources, we introduce you to our inclusive and caring community.

College Honors Thesis Presentations
2020-04-28 08:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Moscow)
The College Honors Thesis Presentations will take place virtually on April 28, 2020, with seniors presenting their research findings at the day-long event. College Honors are awarded to students who complete their college’s honors requirement, which includes an undergraduate thesis. The thesis is an opportunity for accomplished and promising seniors to work independently on a long-term research project.

Postponed: Bill Brown Distinguished Lecture in Biological Sciences: Veronica Hinman
2020-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Moscow) | Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Please note that this lecture has been postponed.
Veronica Hinman, Department Head, Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University will be speaking at the Bill Brown Distinguished Lecture in Biological Sciences on Regrowing Your Head: Regeneration in the Sea Star. Distinguished lectures in biological sciences are named in honor of Bill Brown, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University from 1995 to 2000. Brown was a visiting professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon Qatar in 2007.
About the lecture:
Regeneration is a fascinating process by which animals are able to reform lost tissues following traumatic injury. Some animals, including sea stars are super-regenerators and are able to undergo whole body regeneration following bisection into two halves. This process involves many poorly understood phenomena including how the remaining cell sense the tissue loss, and how they reprogram to form the missing tissues and organ systems. I will present our recent work seeking to understand how sea star larvae are able to regenerate their anterior body, including their nervous system following bisection. I show how evolutionary conserved wounding processes establish reprogramming of cell lineages, re-establish anterior-posterior patterning and then recapitulate embryogenesis. I present these findings within an evolutionary framework of these processes in other animals to highlight similarities and differences in this process.
About the speaker:
Veronica Hinman, is an expert in the field of evolutionary and developmental biology. Hinman’s research focuses on the evolution of developmental mechanisms, focusing on gene regulatory networks (GRNs), the complex pathways that control the expression of the genes that drive the formation of complex morphologies. How these genes are expressed results in the vast diversity of life that is present on Earth today. Using echinoderms, including starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins as models, Hinman searches to understand how GRNs control cell fate during development and how GRNs are reused to during regeneration. She is the director of Echinobase, on open access bioinformatics database and primary repository for genomic information for Echinoderms.
Hinman earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1989, a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1994 and a doctoral degree in zoology in 2000 from the University of Queensland in Australia. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in 2006, she joined the Biological Sciences faculty. She is also a member of Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Computational Biology and the Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology.

Postponed: Biotechnology Explorer Program
2020-03-14 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Moscow) | Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Please be advised that all events in Education City have been cancelled until further notice.
If you’re interested in learning about blood types as a tool in criminology and transfusion medicine, the Biotechnology Explorer Program at Carnegie Mellon Qatar is your opportunity to explore science and investigation. You will carry out visualization and interpretation of agglutination, microscopy and help determine blood types and disorders of patients.
Learn more about how to apply!

Bill Brown Distinguished Lecture in Biological Sciences: Ann Gibbons
2019-03-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Join us for the inaugural Bill Brown Distinguished Lecture in Biological Sciences. The lecture series will kick off featuring Ann Gibbons, contributing correspondent for Science magazine and the author of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. Gibbons will be discussing, Gut Instincts, the Evolution of Diet: Do We Have Stone Age Bodies in a Fast Food World?

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About the lecture:
As modern humans swept out of Africa and spread around the world in the past 80,000 years or so, they adapted to many different habitats, with a variety of climates, diseases and sources of food.
Today, we carry the legacy of those adaptations in our genes and gut bacteria, which influence how we digest foods, absorb sugars and burn calories–and how well we tolerate the high fat, sugar and salt in the Western diet.
Some experts say that we should eat a Paleo diet more like that of our Stone Age hunter-gatherers. But what’s on those ancient menus may surprise you.
I will trace the evolution of modern humans and our diets and show how our ancestors adaptations to diverse habitats, lifestyles and diets influences our health today.

About Ann Gibbons
Ann Gibbons is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and the author of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, which was a finalist for the LA Times best science and technology book. She also has taught science writing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and written about human evolution for National Geographic, SLATE, Smithsonian magazine and other publications. She has been awarded the 2018 National Academy of Sciences Communication Awards for best magazine/newspaper article; the 2014 Society of American Archaeology Gene S. Stuart Award; the National Academy of Sciences 2013 Communication Awards for best magazine/newspaper article; and the 2012 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) for a decade’s worth of stories on human origins and evolution.

Dean's Lecture Series: Qatar Shell
2019-02-05 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Moot Boardroom
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar invites you to a lecture discussing “International energy companies and their role in human development and sustainable growth.”
Guest speaker:
Andrew Faulkner, Managing Director and Chairman, Qatar Shell

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About the speaker:
Andrew, a New Zealand national, joined Shell in 1982. Over his 36 years with the Group, he has held a wide variety of technical and commercial positions in many countries around the Shell world.
Recent assignments prior to his current Qatar role were as Chief Executive Officer of Arrow Energy in Australia (2010-2015), helping develop that unconventional CSG business through its formative post-acquisition stages – and as the Country Chair Brunei/Managing Director for Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) and also Brunei Shell Tankers (2015-2017). Andrew took up the role of Managing Director and Country Chairman of Qatar Shell in April 2017.

Dean's Panel Series: Pharmaceuticals in Qatar: The industry strategy
2018-10-17 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar invites you to a panel of speakers discussing “Pharmaceuticals in Qatar: The industry strategy”.
To confirm your attendance, please RSVP.
Speakers:
Aisha Ibrahim Al-Ansari
Director of Pharmacy & Drug Control Department
Ministry of Public Health

Ahmed Al Mohanadi
CEO of Qlife Pharma

Salvino A. Salvaggio
Senior Director
Implementation & VP RDI Office Management

Omar El-Agnaf
Acting Executive Director
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute

Moderator: Ihab Younis, Assistant Teaching Professor, Biological Sciences

Spring 2018 Dean's List Award Ceremony
2018-09-30 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Assembly Area
The Dean’s List honors exceptional students who have achieved academic excellence during the past semester.

Graduation Ceremony 2018
2018-04-30 16:00 - 20:00 UTC | Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Open to invited guests only.
4:00 pm welcome reception –
4:30 pm ceremony –
followed by a reception.

Senior Honors
2018-04-26 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Senior Honors is a celebration of the Class of 2018 who earned University Honors, College Honors, Campus Scholars, Phi Kappa Phi inductions and/or Senior Student Leadership Awards for their work as a student.
Honorees are encouraged to bring their families. Students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.

Tartan Talks: Biological Sciences
2018-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Student Affairs Lounge
Tartan Talks is a series that invites Carnegie Mellon University alums back on campus to share their experiences with current students, faculty and staff. The March edition will feature Biological Sciences alums.
Take a look at some of the past editions.

CarnegieApps Hackathon
2018-01-26 00:00 - 23:59 UTC | Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
1 Application. 24 Hours. Unlimited Food.
CarnegieApps returns for the 6th annual Hackathon event, offering a chance for university students to create an application, present it to a panel of experienced judges and get a chance to win cool prizes.
The CarnegieApps Hackathon is a 24-hour event where students can either work individually or in teams to build a cool application – be it a game, a mobile application or a web application. Students who participate in the event can use any technology to build their application.
Learn more about how to participate.

Senior Awards Ceremony
2017-04-27 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | East/West Walkway
A celebration of the Class of 2017 students who earned University Honors, College Honors, Campus Scholars, Phi Kapa Phi inductions and/or Senior Student Leadership Awards for their work as a student.
Honorees are encouraged to bring their families. Students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.

Marhaba Tartans
2017-04-20 17:30 - 21:00 UTC
Annual welcome event for newly admitted students.

Environmental Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Sydney
2017-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Student teams will be describing their experiences and lessons learned following the Environmental Sustainability Leadership Trip to Sydney, Australia that took place in March.
The goals of the trip were to:

Develop a deeper understanding of environmental sustainability (Inspire, Innovate, and Lead)
To envision ways to incorporate in Doha best practices learnt from Sydney, which was recently ranked as a ‘top environmentally sustainable city in the world.’

Biological Sciences Lecture Series: DJ Brasier
2017-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | 1202
About the talk:
Moonlighting in the nervous system: an innate immune gene regulates synaptic strength in Drosophila
Biography:
DJ Brasier is the Assistant Teaching Professor & Neuroscience Program Coordinator, Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.

Biological Sciences Start of Semester Party
2017-02-02 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Student Affairs
Join the Biological Sciences department for a get-together celebrating the beginning of the spring 2017 semester.

Course Open House 2016
2016-11-09 00:00 - 13:00 UTC
Interactive session for faculty and students to learn more about the electives offered next Spring in BS, BA, CS, IS and non-major electives
