Nine student researchers from three academic programs presented their final projects at College Honors 2022. The students are all members of Class of 2022 at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university.
As part of their College Honors requirements, students must conduct research under the guidance of a faculty advisor, complete a senior honors thesis, and present the findings to a panel of faculty members. This year, students from biological sciences, business administration, and computer science are vying for College Honors.
Michael Trick, dean of CMU-Q, congratulated the students: “These presentations are the culmination of tremendous time, hard work, and critical thinking. The students presenting College Honors have shown impressive dedication, focus and tenacity, and all of us at CMU-Q are very proud of their achievements.”
The student researchers also presented their projects at Meeting of the Minds 2022, a research symposium for CMU-Q students.
Class of 2022 Senior honors presentations
AlReem AlKhanji, Investigating the effect of the antioxidants lycopene and ℬ-carotene on human breast cancer cells
Faculty advisor: Nesrine Affara
Amna Al- Sayegh, Efficacy of the phage tail fiber peptide as a bacterial detection tool
Faculty advisor: Annette Vincent
Moza Al- Shukri, Phage lysin as a bacterial detection tool
Faculty advisor: Annette Vincent
Maryam Aslam, The roles of integrin-ECM protein interactions in cell signaling, adhesion, and migration in select cancer cell
Faculty advisor: Mohamed Bouaouina
Laila Assami, Assessing the role of αVβ6 integrin expression in subpopulation of PC3 cells
Faculty advisor: Mohamed Bouaouina
Ammar Karkour, Py*: Formalization of Python’s verifiable bytecode and virtual machine in F*
Faculty advisor: Giselle Reis
Nour Mohamed, Is the future female? A study on educational attainment and economic development
Faculty advisor: Agustín Indaco
Đorđe Popović, Fed Teams: Trust-based and resource-aware federated learning
Faculty advisors: Khaled Harras and Hend Gedawy
Aya Salameh, Evaluating the role of p38 MAPK signaling pathway as a cross-link between colon tumor cells and fibroblasts
Faculty advisor: Nesrine Affara
