Category: Sustainability

CMU-Q hosts Qatar Red Crescent secretary-general to discuss empowerment strategy

Doha, Qatar: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, a partner university of Qatar Foundation, hosted Faisal Mohamed Al-Emadi, secretary-general of Qatar Red Crescent, to discuss his organization’s strategy for economic and…

CMU-Q’s Deepa Nair joins international team to develop efficient vertical greenwalls

Doha, Qatar – Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar’s Deepa Nair, assistant teaching professor of history, has joined a multidisciplinary team of researchers that will develop more efficient and sustainable vertical…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar and Iberdrola sign memorandum of understanding

Doha, Qatar, 09 May 2024 –Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Iberdrola Innovation Middle East have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the areas of education,…

Muneera Al-Baker: Making a global impact 

As we approach Graduation Day for the Class of 2024, we are sharing the stories of just a few of these remarkable people who will receive their degrees on May 6.…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar signs Sustainability Charter

Dean Michael Trick of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, signed a Sustainability Charter on Earth Day. The charter formalizes CMU-Q’s commitment to create a…

Students turn to 3D printing solutions to improve sustainability

Lujain Al Mansoori and Mohammad Annan, both juniors in information systems at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), are pushing the boundaries of 3D printing to create new solutions to…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar LifeLines Hackathon fosters ethical innovation

Student teams create software to ease humanitarian crises A student team from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has won the first CMU-Q LifeLines Hackathon with an idea to use…

CMU-Q professor key organizer for worldwide conference in Natural Language Processing and Generative AI

Houda Bouamor served as a key organizer for the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2023), an event that drew about 4000 world global experts in the…

Chadi Aoun talks to The Peninsula about desertification

Originally published December 9, 2023, in The Peninsula.  By Fabeena Saleem Doha, Qatar: In the face of the growing global population and its associated demands on the planet’s resources, Qatar is…

Aamal CEO speaks at CMU-Q Dean’s Lecture Series

Rashid bin Ali Al Mansoori, the CEO of Aamal, kicked off the first CMU-Q Dean’s Lecture Series of the new academic year.  Originally published October 31, 2023 in Gulf Times…