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The Dartmouth College-American University of Kuwait Project
44 North College Street Street, Suite 6125
Hanover, NH
03755-1807
Phone: (603) 646-9671
Fax: (603) 646-9673

Dartmouth Welcomes AUK Interns This Summer

Five students from the American University of Kuwait (AUK) will be at Dartmouth in summer 2012 to participate in internships and attend an intensive program designed to train computer science majors in electronic infrastructure security.

AUK students (left to right) Helene Georges El Neaman, Kevork Awakimian, Eman Karam, Yousef Abdul-Husain, and Wadhah Al-Dalama will intern at Dartmouth this summer.

Yousef Abdul-Husain and Helene Georges El Neaman will divide their time at Dartmouth between internships at the Hood Museum of Art and the Office of Public Affairs, while Kevork Awakimian will work with programs in the Rassias Center for World Languages. Wadhah Al-Dalama and Eman Karam will attend the Secure Information Systems and Mentoring Program (SISMAT) offered through Dartmouth's Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS).

Dartmouth Student at AUK for Spring Term

Jacqueline Waugh '13

AUK welcomed Dartmouth intern Jacqueline Waugh '13 this spring. Waugh, who will be at AUK until the end of May 2012, will be working in the Center for Gulf Studies, Intensive English program, and with the EDUC program.

Waugh, from central New York State, is in her third year at Dartmouth studying international relations and anthropology, focusing on the Middle East. She is involved in a number of activities on campus, including ballroom and salsa dancing, and is a sister at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority.

Dartmouth–AUK Project Brings Visiting Scholar to Dartmouth's Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Mohammad El Abd

Mohammad El Abd, an assistant professor of Computer Engineering at the American University of Kuwait (AUK), will be a visiting scholar at the Dartmouth Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS) in June and July 2012. El Abd's research is in the field of particle swarm optimization (PSO), which employs mathematical algorithms, coupled with innovative computer search tools, to predict the behavior of individuals in large groups.

The April 2012 edition of AUK Chronicle highlights Dartmouth's Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training program and shares the reflections of former Dartmouth-AUK intern Christina Chen '12. Read these stories and more by clicking here.