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Campus News AUST Researcher Receives Funding from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) AUST research efforts are reaching fruition in terms of funding appreciation. The graduate program in Biotechnology at the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) has received more than $13,000 in support of a research study that aims to investigate the role of iron metabolism in breast cancer development. Dr. Zouhair Attieh, the Lab Science and Technology (LST) Chairperson, who supervises the study has been working on cellular iron trafficking in various body tissues for the last seventeen years during his doctoral, postdoctoral work and AUST tenure. Rasha Mismar, who obtained her MS degree from the LST In November, looked at the expression of iron On February 28, 2012, Dr. Adel Chit, Dr. Roger Achkar, and Mr. Michel Owayjan representing the Department of Computer and Communications at AUST attended the first conference on Engineering Education in Lebanon that was held at the Order of Engineers and Architects, Beirut, 2 www.aust.edu.lb regulatory proteins in the development of ductal carcinoma, the major type of breast cancer in women. Her results constituted a key factor in the proposal submitted for funding to the CNRS. Indeed, the proposal was accepted, and financial support was allocated to it. Two graduate students, Pamela Nabhan and Joseph AbuMsallam will further investigate the role of iron mobilization in mammalian tissue in breast carcinogenesis. The study, in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, is promising in elucidating the mechanisms underlying breast cancer development; thus. Paving the way to possible therapeutic strategies. Intel Corporate Affairs Group’s Program Manager addresses AUST Students on Corporate Social Responsibility Dr. Hejase, Ms. Harb, Dr. Haddad, and Mr. Daw AUST Participates in the First Conference on Engineering Education in Lebanon Lebanon. The conference was organized by the Federation of Lebanese Engineers in collaboration with the Engineering Scientific Committee in the Order of Engineers and Architects – Beirut, and under the patronage of His Excellency, Dr. Hassan Diab, Minister of Education & Higher Education of Lebanon. The opening session included talks by the Chair of the Engineering Scientific Committee, Eng. Paul El Hage, the President of the Order of Engineers and Architects – Beirut, Dr. Elie Dr. Zouhair Attieh On Tuesday, March 13, 2012, AUST’s instructor of “International Business” Mr. Dory Daw invited Ms. Grace Harb to expound on Intel’s initiative toward developing young Lebanese entrepreneurs on the realm of corporate social responsibility. Students from two undergraduate and one graduate business classes, namely, international business, quality management and financial management (MBA) were among the attendees. Present were Dr. Ziad Haddad, Head of the Management Department, and instructors Mr. Daw and Ms. Hassana Tabch. Dr. Hejase, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, addressed the students about the importance of social responsibility in business and how it impacts all business sectors on all planning levels, including strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Then he introduced the speaker. Ms. Grace gave her presentation in an interactive style, covering the principles of corporate social responsibility and how Intel, as a global corporation, is involved in foreign countries in an attempt to build human capacity; a feat that is attained by encouraging volunteering programs, entrepreneurship training and competitions, and through the support of public and private institutions in their efforts to build their Information and Communication Technology capabilities. The meeting was friendly and easy going; the presentation was smooth, flexible, and allowed excellent interaction with students. The presentation ended by offering the speaker a commemorative medallion from AUST; it was presented by Dr. Haddad and Dean Hejase. Bseibes, and the Minister of Education & Higher Education in Lebanon, Dr. Hassan Diab. This was followed by five sessions, covering the different engineering education models in Lebanon, the quality of engineering education, engineering education in the modern economy and in the industry, promoting engineering education at universities and the training of engineers, and a recommendation session. By Michel J. Owayjan Department of Computer & Communications Engineering
Campus News The Arts and Design Department at AUST hosted artist Nadim Karam on March 2012. He exposed the arts and design students to his art and the context that engulfs his work. Born in Senegal in 1957, Nadim Karam is a multidisciplinary artist known for landmark urban design and cutting-edge painting and sculpture. A prominent figure in the Lebanese art scene. He attended the American University of Beirut and received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan. In 1996, he established Atelier Hapsitus in Beirut; a studio that the artist defines as “the satellite grouping of young architects and designers around happenings and situations.” Since then, Atelier Hapsitus has become a vehicle for Karam’s oeuvre, boasting a number of works and projects that blend architecture, design and art while defying conventional modes of creativity and thought. Individually, Karam has exhibited in galleries, institutions and art fairs worldwide, contributing to such notable events as the Liverpool Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and SCOPE Art Fair (Basel). With a collector-base across the globe, his work is housed in corporations and cultural foundations in the Arab world, Europe and Asia. Gaining critical acclaim for his urban art projects in Lebanon early on, he has been commissioned to produce large-scale works in such places as the UAE, the Czech Republic, Australia and Japan. The former Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design Artist Karam sharing his arts experience with students at Lebanon’s Notre Dame University, his influence has also been felt on an academic level. Be they urban art or architectural, Nadim Karam defines his projects as being composed of the inspirations, encounters and stories that generate moments. Moments are indefinable, but they have the capacity to affect our emotions, change our mood, and make us dream… Through his work, he attempts to create fresh visual moments born of their city’s stories and culture, placing them in an unexpected urban context to inject fantasy and vitality into city life. One of his current urban art projects, still under development, is The Dialogue of the Hills, a project for a series of permanent urban art installations and community gardens linking the seven hills of Amman. The Dialogue of the Hills aims to capture the city’s energy and express it through urban art works that involve communities, enrich On Friday, 9th of March, the students of television production 1 class went to MTV studios in Naccache on a field trip. Their trip started with a tour in the Studio Vision where most live to tape television programs for MTV and Al Jadid television stations are shot. The tour ended in the control room where the students witnessed the staff of the program “ Heik Menghanni” rehearsing and preparing for the shooting of the program. The producer of the show explained to them the procedures inside the control room, and the responsibility of each of the production staff during production. The technical staff, in turn, talked about the equipment they use in the control room. The students then continued their trip to the set where an episode of“ Heik Menghanni” was being shot. They were part of the audience for a live to tape shooting of the American University of Science and Technology Fresh Moment through the Eyes of Artist Nadim Karam the environment, and create a cultural story linking the Amman hills. Another creative architecture project which he spoke about was “The Cloud of Dubai”; it is one of a series of Gulf Region projects created by Nadim Karam and Atelier Hapsitus. Inspired by the nomads, whose travels followed the borderless movement of clouds; it is a horizontal antithesis to the forest of exclusive high-rise towers spreading all over the region. A public landscape-in-thesky, it is an essentially sustainable project standing at a height of approximately 300 meters, comprising of a lake, gardens, rotating bridges, spiraling walkways and terraces, a multi-purpose space and sky-sports platform. His talk was graphic so much so that students didn’t find it hard to go with him on the trip of different engineering concepts. In summary, a lecture is not enough; we hope to host him on many other occasions to benefit more of his expertise. AUST Participates in the 14 th ACM Arab Collegiate Programming Contest The Fourteenth ACM Arab Collegiate Programming Contest was hosted by the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. The Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) is a qualifying round for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). ACPC is organized in the same spirit and is governed by all applicable rules of the ICPC. Winners of an ACPC contest qualify to the ICPC World Finals. A record breaking 56 teams from 40 Universities have participated in the contest. Most Arab countries were represented: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunis, and the hosting country Lebanon. Two teams participated from AUST: 1) Team 1: Born2Code (Beirut) a. Rayyan Mourtada b. Sleiman Jneidi c. Hussein Zawawi 2) Team 2: C0d3 (Sidon) a. Firas Shamieh b. Kassem Abu Khana c. Mohamad-Ali Mokhadder Both teams were coached by Mr. Michel Owayjan. Both teams were rewarded certificates for their good effort. The contest was sponsored by Consolidated Contracting Company (CCC), Facebook, Byblos Bank, Ayna Corp, Zakhem Engineering, and Quantech, and organized under the patronage of Dr. Hassan Diab, Minister of Education and Higher Education. By Michel J. Owayjan Computer Science Department Television Production Students Visit MTV and Participate in One of its Shows episode. The students learned from the floor manager how to manage the audience, the guests, talents as well as the technical staff during the shooting. The students observed how sets, lights and cameras are designed in a television production, reviewing the names of the camera mounts, sound and light equipment used in the production. A funny anecdote happened before shooting the episode, the gorgeous Maya Diab, the presenter of the program, appeared with a red shoe and a black shoe on; she asked the audience to give her their opinion about which color of shoes she is to wear. The audience shouted vigorously “black”. Showing that she cared about the audience’s opinion she shot the whole episode with the black pair of shoes. The students cheered, applauded, sang and learned during this trip to MTV studios. For your comments email us at: austmidweek@aust.edu.lb 3
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