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January 2011: 4 NU projects were finalists in the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) competition.

January 2011: NU’s RA, Yara Omar, represented Egypt in the Present Around The World (PATW) Global Competition in London, in which she was selected as nominee.

(NISC) RAs received the Best Student Paper Award in the International Conference on Energy Efficiency .The Award selection and handing out was made by Greg Taylor, Director of Research, Intel.

Dr. Yehea Ismail, NISC director, was elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to High Performance Circuits and Interconnect. Dr. Ismail was also unanimously selected as next Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems.

NU was selected as the Egyptian representative in Celebration of Entrepreneurship Seminar in Dubai and presented a session on entrepreneurship on that occasion.

NU’s EG-Bioinformatics, Project in the Center for Informatics Science (CIS), won best project in Egypt in Med Ventures

MIT Business Plan Competition where 1850 proposals were submitted worldwide
3 out of 9 finalists were from / supported by NU
2 out of the 3 top prizes were awarded to groups from / supported by NU

NU was selected as partner in President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Program and is the only Egyptian University to be selected as such.

NU proposals submitted to Microsoft Research in response to the "Mobile Healthcare for Africa" call were both selected for funding. Out of the 5 selected proposals, 2 are from Egypt and both are from NU (CIS and WINC research centers).

July 15th 2010: Dr. Ahmed Mosa, Assistant Professor, Transportation Systems Program, has been awarded the Cairo University Prize for the Best Paper on Developing Countries for his paper entitled “Exploring the Impacts of In-Home Virtual Activities an Daily Activity and Travel Behavior: An Analysis Using Cairo Activity and Telecommunication Diary Data 2006”, published in the World Conference of Transport Research (WCTR2010).

Spring 2010: 8 NU Master Degree Graduate Students Awarded Full PhD. Scholarships at Top Universities in North America including: Ohio State, University of Minnesota , University of Texas at Dallas, University of California Davis, University of Maryland at Baltimore and the University of Texas A&M

April 2010: Karim Ahmed Wageeh, NU freshman wins the first place in The Dubai International Chess Championship, men competition, held on April, 4-15, 2010.

March 6th, 2010: NU and General Motors Holdings LLC (GM), USA signed a Master Agreement on, establishing a strong relationship in cutting-edge scientific research.

January 22nd, 2010: Dr. Wael Akl, Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was granted a Science &Technology Development Fund (STDF) for his project on "Modeling and Development of a Novel Smart Paint Sensor for Acoustic and Vibration Measurement".

January 2010: Karim Ahmed Wageeh, NU freshman is the first prize winner of the "African Juniors & Girls Chess Championships 2009", held in Egypt during the period from December 30th until January 8th. This is the third consecutive time that Karim has won this championship.

January 2010: British Petroleum Egypt (BP), a major sponsor of NU academic scholarships, arranged a welcome reception for NU Research Assistants and postgraduate students to meet with BP’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Tony Hayward. The meeting took place with the presence of Eng. Hesham Mekawy, Chairman BP Egypt. The RAs overviewed for Mr. Hayward their areas of focus, and the objectives of the research they are conducting.

December 2009: Nile University’s Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center’s Research Assistants awarded internships at Intel Corp, USA as part of their research work.

November 2009: Dr. Mohamed Abouelhoda, Assistant Professor, Center for Informatics Sciences (CIS), has received an award of $9300 processed as university donation in recognition of his achievements and for enabling research in the field of Bioinformatics and its applications on Blue Gene.

November 2009: Dr. Hesham El- Gamal, Associate Professor, Wireless Intelligent Network Center (WINC), has received an elevation by the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors to become an IEEE Fellow, which is the highest grade of membership in the IEEE, and the Institute’s most prestigious honors. Dr. El- Gamal received this elevation for his contributions to multiple-input multiple-output and cooperative communications.

August 2009: NU researchers completed an important project in the field of Informatics Sciences in collaboration with Microsoft

1-3rd August 2009: NU Graduate Student Rehab Massoud received 1st prize in “Made in Egypt” Competition, EED.

July 2009: NU researcher, Dr. Moustafa Youssef, was awarded Google Research Award which is a precedent for Arab Researchers.

July 2009: NU Master Degree Graduate Students Awarded Full PhD. Scholarships at Top Universities in Europe and North America including: Imperial College, Ohio State, University of Southern California, University of Minnesota , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California Irvine.

December 2008: The Grenoble School of Management (one of the leading business schools in France) has awarded Dr. Tarek Khalil, founder of IAMOT (International Association of Management of Technology) and NU President, a "Doctor Honoris Causa" for his contributions to the MOT field.