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Sharjah Abdee Award

Five MCM students received top honors at the Abdee Awarding ceremony held by the Sharjah Media Corporation on May 14, 2017. The five AUS students emerged victorious in a competition in which 600 students from Sharjah-based institutions of higher education took part. Ahmed Al Falasi, Ameena Abdullah, Diana Farah, Kateryna Kadabashy, Shahla Amen won AED 10,000 in the Best Idea category for their short documentary The Journey, which looked at cultural diversity and formation. The Journey also won AED 30,000, ranking second in the Best Overall category. In addition, Ameena Abdullah and Husam Ibrahim won the best Commentary and Narration Award and AED 10,000 for the short documentary Frozen in Time, which focused on Jazirat Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah. Frozen in Time also won best the Pre-production category and received AED 10,000. Abdul Rahman El Kallawy won AED 20,000, ranking third in the Best Overall category for his work, Dubai Canvas.

 

Mass Communication student wins two awards

Mass Communication (MCM) student Mais Al-Amouri won awards

from both Alaan TV and the Dubai International Film Festival during in April 2015.   Al-Amouri won Alaan TV’s competition UAE...the beloved homeland, launched in celebration of the 43rd UAE National Day. The competition aimed to provide an opportunity to express love for and belonging to the UAE through an image or a video, according to Alaan TV’s website. The award landed Al-Amouri a two- week internship at Alaan TV in Dubai Media City along with a certificate at the end of the training, she said.

 

Mass Communication student wins at the Dubai Lynx Masar Student

Mass communication (MCM) student Dena Al-Qaisi won second place at the Dubai Lynx Masar Student Creative Award for Print on March 11, for designing a poster in response to Dubai Cares’ initiative to increase awareness about education. Regarding her decision to participate, Al-Qaisi said that MCM Assistant Professor Dr. Mohammed Ibahrine encouraged her and her classmates to take part. “I willingly took part as I am always open to taking new challenges and I am also keen on taking part in communication and creativity forms,” she added.

 

MCM Student Receives Google Ambassador Title

MCM Student Marwa Jarkas won the Google Ambassador Award following her participation and competition in numerous Google-sponsored workshops for promoting digital technology and digital solutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Marwa was recognized in summer 2014.

 

MCM Student wins DIFF Young Journalists Award

MCM student Jerusha Sequeira won the Young Journalist Award at the Ninth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF.  Sequeira, a journalism student, received the honor on December 15 for her performance at the film festival mentoring program.

The AUS Green Team won 1st Runner Up in the Campus Green Audit for Abu Dhabi Environmental Agency’s Sustainable Campus Initiative for the 2015-2016 Academic Year.  Students worked with AUS Sustainability Office and other administrative departments to collect data on water and energy use, climate change, waste production and land/biodiversity on the AUS Campus.

Ms. Taraneh Taghaddosi from American University of Sharjah (AUS) won first place at the fifth UAE Student Research Competition held on Monday, May 8th, 2017 at Abu Dhabi University. The award, held under the patronage of H.E Eng. Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi Minister of Education, recognizes outstanding undergraduate student research being conducted at the academic institutions in the UAE.  Ms. Taghaddosi, was awarded first place on “the Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering” category for her project entitled "Chemical and structural analysis of Sharjah sand and their potential application for organic compounds and toxic metal removal". Taraneh has also received the British Petroleum “Safety” Award for her work this year.

Gulf Cooperation Council:  Jessup Friendly Round hosted by Kuwait International Law School

On 3rd March 2017 the Moot Court Team of the American University of Sharjah won first place in the first annual Gulf Cooperation Council Jessup Friendly round at Kuwait International Law School, where a mock court adjudicated the “dispute concerning the Sisters of the Sun”—an interstate dispute over the use of common-pool resources, the protection of cultural heritage, the law of refugees, and non-traditional sources of binding international law. The team consisted of Shahed Abdul-Dayem (captain), Jamil Haddad, Hassan Salman, and Dr. Barry Hashimoto. Shahed won a separate award for Best Applicant Oralist.  

The competition is part of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, also known as “the Jessup,” which takes place every April in Washington, D.C. and is sponsored by the International Law Students Association and White & Case. Teams from GCC countries that won their national moot court rounds and thus are eligible to compete in this April’s Jessup were invited to compete at the GCC Jessup Friendly. The teams were scored by a panel of four judges drawn from law faculties in the United Kingdom, Kuwait and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Georgia.

 

 

 

 

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