Research at AUB: Community Outreach

Byblos Bank/OSB Consumer Confidence Index for Lebanon is the first such index produced by a banking and financial institution in the Middle East and North Africa

Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Imad Elhajj from the American University of Beirut in collaboration with the Association for Forests, Development and Conservation (AFDC) and Professor George Mitri from the University of Balamand

The AUB Tobacco Control Research Group visited Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on December 2, 2011, to seek his support in implementing and enforcing the Tobacco Control law no. 174 which was published in the Official Gazette in September 2011.

The Program of Lebanese Industrial Research Achievements (LIRA) at the Ministry of Industry, the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI), and the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) signed an agreement with AUB

Members of Arab civil society joined a 10-week workshop promoting leadership and democracy skills and jointly conducted by the American University of Beirut, the US State Department and the Maxwell School of Syracuse University

During a ceremony held at the Commodore Hotel in Beirut on June 9, 2011, the Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures (Ibsar) launched the “Biodiversity Village Award” (BVA), or “Baldati Bi’ati’ (My village is my environment) project, under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoI).

The University’s Peer Education and Training Research International (PETRI-AUB) welcomed the AUB community, local sexual health organizations, and friends and family to participate in the interactive theatre performance at West Hall on September 25, 2011

The new TAMAM country teams (TAMAM II) met with AUB
Funded by the Arab Thought Foundation (ATF), and launched in 2007 through a memorandum of understanding between ATF and AUB, TAMAM is a collaborative educational reform project involving select schools in the Arab world

AUB hosts engineering students from Purdue University to discuss water harvesting in Souk Sabra. The presentation, held in the Bechtel Building of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA) on May 17.