AUK Celebrates Top Students during Student Academic Achievement Awards

The American University of Kuwait held a Student Academic Achievement Awards ceremony where top students were honored for excellence in their studies and extracurricular activities. Students from all departments were nominated by faculty and department chairs, and one student was chosen from each department for the award.

The awards were split into two categories, the Outstanding Student Award which is given to students from each department for their excellence in academia, and the Competition Recognition Award which recognizes a student or team who participated and won in a regional or international competition during the current academic year.

The ceremony was held in conjunction with the President and Dean's Honor Roll, and was attended by the honored students' families and friends. The chosen students were announced for the first time during the ceremony where department heads called the students to the stage and awarded them with crystal plaques. AUK Provost Dr. Rawda Awwad closed the ceremony with a speech in which she elaborated on the outcome of a liberal arts education-which the awarded students have mastered during their time at AUK, "Our liberal arts tradition will prepare you emotionally, intellectually, and academically. Our liberal arts tradition, therefore, expects that you will have the strength and the frame of mind to do exactly that: figure out how you can be that transformative agent for the betterment of society: in other words, making a difference as an individual or as a collective that is real and sustainable."

The awardees are:

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Department of Arabic & Foreign Languages
Bashayer Abdulhadi

Department of Art & Graphic Design
Leena El Hawary

Department of Communication & Media
Layal Boulos

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ali Kelkawi

Department of Computer Science & Information Systems
Samy AbdelAal

Department of English
Abdulaziz Al-Mahmeed

Department of International Relations
Moudhy Al-Khalaf

Department Mathematics & Natural Sciences
Noha Mahmoud

Department of Music & Drama
Dana Al-Zuraiqi

Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Sumaya Al Hunayan
 

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Department of Economics, Management & Marketing
Shehryar Ali - Management
Tasneem Darkhabani - Marketing
Ismail Al-Tahan - Economics

Department of Accounting & Finance
Farah Nabaa - Finance
Dania Moftah - Accounting

INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM (IEP)
Turki Al Ajmi - Gold Track
Al Hawraa Al Baghli - Gold Track
Nour Allaho - Silver Track
Mohammed Saad - Silver Track

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Competition Recognition Awards - 2017-2018

Department of Electrical & computer Engineering
Batool Hasan

Department of Computer Science & Information Systems
Abdulazez Karam

Department of International Relations
Ali Al-Qallaf

Department of Accounting & Finance
Raunak Singh
 

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