Category: Sustainability

CMU-Q’s Houda Bouamor leads dialogue on smart sectors at Smart City Expo Doha

DOHA, QATAR – Houda Bouamor, associate teaching professor of information systems at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, led a discussion on the digital roadmap for smart sectors at the Smart…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar launches Business Innovation Challenge for high school students

DOHA, QATAR – Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, hosted the inaugural Business Innovation Challenge, a two-day competition designed to introduce top high school students…

CMU-Q team builds on award-winning wildlife research with new UREP grant

A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, has received a new Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) grant from QRDI Council to…

Qatar’s Energy Minister discusses sustainability, AI, and national capacity building with Carnegie Mellon students

DOHA, 29 October 2025 – His Excellency Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President and CEO of QatarEnergy, joined the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar…

CMU-Q’s Ben Reilly publishes “Disasters in World History”

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q)’s Benjamin Reilly has authored his fifth volume of scholarly work, Disasters in World History, published by Routledge. A teaching professor of history, Reilly’s new…

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar earns first FEE EcoCampus Green Flag Designation in the MENA Region

Doha, Qatar, 01 December 2024– Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has been awarded the prestigious FEE EcoCampus Green Flag designation, becoming the first university in the Middle East and…

Information Systems professor receives fellowship to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion

Mohammad Aazam, assistant teaching professor of information systems, received a Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellowship to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion in the introductory networks and telecommunications course at CMU-Q.  Sponsored…

EcoCampus wins CMU Andy Award for staff team

The CMU-Q EcoCampus staff team, which includes Elissar El-Akra Hajjar, Rosemarie Florida, Stephen Heath, and Angela Ng, was recognized at Carnegie Mellon University’s 30th Annual Andy Awards ceremony in Pittsburgh. Andy…

Siemens Qatar CEO discusses sustainability at Carnegie Mellon

The event marks the latest installment of the CMU-Q Dean’s Lecture Series Doha, Qatar – October 28, 2024 – Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university,…

The Peninsula: CMU-Q advances research in line with national priorities

Published in The Peninsula, October 2, 2024. Written by Fazeena Saleem   Doha, Qatar: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), member of Qatar Foundation continues to bolster its research initiatives,…