Tag: Humanities and Sciences

Students delve into Qatar’s attitudes about wildlife

Students at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, are conducting a research project that explores how people in Qatar think about indigenous wildlife species. Reem…

Opportunities for language education in a (post) pandemic world

In Gulf-Times, August 4, 2020 Dudley Reynolds, co-area head of arts and sciences and teaching professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, on…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar research wins 2019 Best Paper award

QNRF-funded project results in virtual toolbox for teaching analytical writing A research team from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, received the Best Paper…

CMU-Q recognizes two professors for exceptional teaching award

In a campus first, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has selected two faculty members to receive the 2019-20 Meritorious Teaching Award. Lauren Burakowski and Nui Vatanasakdakul were recognized for going…

CMU-Q announces winners of Pi Day Math Contest 2020

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, has announced the four winning teams in this year’s Pi Day Mathematics Competition. The American School of Doha and Doha…

CMU-Q student creates two winning videos for Snapchat contest

Over the winter break, Reem Al-Haddad, a junior in the Information Systems Program at CMU-Q, learned about a Snapchat video contest hosted by social media icon Mohammad Al-Dosari. She used…

CMU’s David Danks on the new micro course experience

David Danks visited the Qatar campus last semester as part of a trio of micro courses on the topic of artificial intelligence. Danks is the head of the Department of…

Innovative courses open up new worlds for Carnegie Mellon students

New ‘micro courses’ introduce wide variety of topics, new ideas Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has introduced micro courses, a new option for students to learn about a wide…

Carnegie Mellon leads team to create interactive map of Qatari dialect

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) is leading a new research team that will create an interactive linguistic map of Qatari dialect. Zeinab Ibrahim, teaching professor of Arabic studies, is…

CMU-Q’s Dudley Reynolds: “We live in an age where multilingualism is the norm”

Reynolds’ report on language policy, prepared for the WISE 2019 summit, urges educators to promote and support competency in multiple languages Dudley Reynolds, a teaching professor of English at Carnegie…