The Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority, ECA, has launched the Parents Platform to strengthen the abilities and confidence of parents and caregivers to support the development and wellbeing of children from birth to 8 years old. The Parents Platform, the first for early childhood in the region, aims at promoting community engagement by providing a […]
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Class of 2020 alumna BanaAlamad has been awarded the prestigious Bseisu-Cambridge Scholarship, offered by the Bseisu Foundation. The first woman to receive the Bseisu-Cambridge scholarship since it was established in 2005, Alamad will be pursuing a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Genomic Medicine, an integrated clinical and research degree at the […]
Khalifa University of Science and Technology today announced the launch of Khalifa University 2020 Community Webinar Series, a string of educational webinars that will run throughout August 2020, informing and empowering community members with meaningful and actionable solutions. The special webinars are designed to educate and inform the general public about a variety of beneficial […]
TrustChip, a startup focused on preventing intellectual property theft in the chip design industry; and Pivot, a startup focused on predicting and quantifying property risks from hazards such as climate change and sea level rise, have each won the Innovation Grant of USD 10,000 in the DeepTech 2020 Program by startAD, the Abu Dhabi-based global […]
Over the past two decades, more than 3,500 exoplanets (planets that orbit stars outside our solar system) have been discovered, but none of the moons that orbit them. A new AI algorithm-based method created by researchers at the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Space Science promises to avoid some of the challenges of finding moons […]
As global warming continues to escalate, there are lasting implications to consider, including the changes to biological communities in vital habitats such as coral reefs. A team of researchers, led by Simon Brandl (currently at the Centre de RecherchesInsulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement, CRIOBE, France) and Jacob Johansen, an Assistant Research Professor at Hawai’i Institute […]
The positive overall performance of Distance Learning programs implemented by Abu Dhabi’s private schools during the COVID-19 pandemic is the direct result of “organization, collaboration and inclusion” by schools, teachers, parents and inspection administrators, according to the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK). “I am proud of the collective efforts of schools, teachers […]
One hundred Bloomberg Terminals have been installed at five leading universities in Abu Dhabi as a result of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in October 2019 between the Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, and Bloomberg L.P. to implement a training and development programme called the ADNOC-Bloomberg Education Initiative. The initiative […]
The University of Manchester Middle East Centre and Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI) have signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to collaborate on higher education, training, and development opportunities for professionals working across the regional real estate industry, as part of the University’s Strategic Talent Partnership programme for the Middle East. The MoU was signed […]
Although no life has been detected on the Martian surface, a new study from astrophysicist and research scientist at the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, Dimitra Atri finds that conditions below the surface could potentially support it. The subsurface – which is less harsh and has traces of water – has never […]
