AUT Graphic Design Student
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Another success
was Graphic
Design student
Claude Kairouz
who won the Best
Poster
competition for
the anti-drug
campaign
organized by
Internal
Security Forces
for their
campaign. His
creation will be
used in all
advertising for
the anti-drug
campaign. He has
been recognized
by the
commander-in-chief
of the ISF,
General Ashraf
Rifi and
presented an
award and a cash
prize.
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AUT and Byblos Municipality Team Up to Embellish
the City |
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The AUT Office
of External
Relations and
the Faculty of
Arts have
proposed to the
Byblos
Municipality to
contribute in
the
embellishment of
the city of
Byblos. The
proposal, which
was accepted by
the Municipality
Council
President Gino
Kallab consists
in painting
murals on a
number of walls
and
trompe-l’oeil
paintings on
certain building
facades selected
by the Municipal
Council.
The first phase
starts Monday
June 12 with the
mural painting
of the wall
along the Byblos
Club Court
downtown Byblos.
Simultaneously,
a building east
of Voie 13 will
see its facades
made more
attractive with
trompe-l’oeil
paintings (see
the pictures
below). Next to
this building is
a public garden
being under
completion.
A second phase
will start in
October and will
have to do with
mural paintings
on a wall being
erected next to
another public
garden next to
the Municipal
house.
The students of
Painting II have
designed and
will execute all
paintings under
the supervision
of the Faculty
of Arts Dean,
Lutz Presser,
who has met with
the students and
the Municipality
President to
select the
different
designs made.
The students who
will perform the
work are: Nancy
Ashar, Emile
Ashkar, Raja
Assaf (designer
of the Byblos
Club wall
murals), Cesar
Bassil, Joseph
Boutrros,
Christelle Chaer,
Fabienne Chamoun,
Moustafa Sharraf,
Chantal Chedid,
Maya Khoury,
Khalil Freyfer,
Georges Jabbour,
Tony Mahfouz,
Rania Sadek,
Alain serhal,
Myrna sleiman,
Andre Yaacoub,
Joelle Yazbek
and Jihad Saba
(the latter two
having designed
the building
façade
paintings).
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Community Oriented Activities |
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A
number of activities
were undertaken and
other soon will be
with the purpose of
establishing closer
bonds with the
community and allow
students to feel
more concerned with
their direct
environment.
The Computer Science
division at AUT
offered IT training
to teachers and the
principal of Ste
Famille school in
Sahel Alma. 20
teachers were split
into 2 groups
according to their
fluency in using the
computer and were
taught by Romeo Issa
and Charbel Armaleh
over 3 months. The
training was offered
for no charge.
A ceremony was held
on May 26 to deliver
certificates in
presence of
department heads at
AUT
A
special presentation of
how to use technology in
teaching math was held
by the math department
at AUT for the teachers
of the Jbeil area school
teachers. Around 20
teachers coming form
Mounsif National School,
Lycee Amshit, Byblos
Official and Amshit
Official attended the
presentations of Dr
Zahreddine, Dr Shraif
and Mrs Khoury on the
use of the digital
boards, Math software
and other features. This
initiative will be
followed by similar ones
to schools of other
areas.
Graphic Design students
at AUT will have a role
in making Jbeil walls
more beautiful. A team
of 12 students will
produce mural paintings
outside the walls of the
Byblos Stadium and will
paint trompe-l’oeil
designs on a facade of a
6-floor building on the
old St Charbel’s road.
Students, Dr Presser and
Marcel Hinain met with
municipality head Gino
Kallab on May 25 to
present the designs
prepared by the
students. The paint will
be made available by the
municipality and the
execution will be the
students’ work. A more
beautiful city made
possible by the GD
department
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AUT Wins its Mini Soccer
Universities Tournament |
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The Tripoli mini
soccer AUT team
played the final
game of its
tournament held in
the North against Al
Manar University and
won the game 8 to 5
after a grueling
match. AUT’s
tournament brought
together 9
university teams and
the victory of the
Tripoli team came as
a reinforcement of
its reputation as
the best university
team in the North
established last
year when it won all
regional
tournaments.
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AUT Basket Ball Wins Al Jinan
University Tournament |
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A fired up basket ball
team played the final
game against the host
team Al Jinan University
in Tripoli last week-end
and won the tournament
with a 7-point
difference 92-85. Over 9
teams took part in this
tournament and AUT
participated with a
majority of players from
the Tripoli campus.
This week will see the
kick off of the AUT
soccer tournament
organized at the Wafaa
Club stadium. Eleven
universities are part of
this tournament.
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Microsoft Imagine
Cup 2006
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AUT’s Romeo Issa and Eddy
Touma are in the final
stages of preparing for the
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006
in the Software Design
category. Romeo is the
president of AUT’s
Microsoft .Net club and is
the current AUT webmaster.
The IC2006 involves
university students around
the world competing in 6
categories. The national
competition is held in June
and the winners will take
part in the regional
qualifiers later on.
Regional winners will then
meet for the finals held
this year in New Delhi,
India.
The AUT community is keeping
its fingers crossed!
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School
Mini Football Tournament
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The sports department of
AUT Tripoli organized a
school mini football
tournament on its courts
with the participation
of the following
schools:
·
Rawdat al fayhaa (french)
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Rawdat al fayhaa (english)
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College National Orthodoxe (st elie-mina)
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Bkeftine College
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David Karam Educational Center- Koura
·
Notre Dame de Balamand- Koura
·
Al Inaya al ahlia
The competition was
fierce among the
competitors who all
showed great
sportsmanship. Results
were as follows:
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First place : Rawdat al Fayhaa (french)
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Second place : College National Orthodoxe (st elie)
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Best Team : Bkeftine College
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Best Goalkeeper : Waddah Issa (Rawdat al fayhaa)
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Best Player : Mosbah Husein (st elie)
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Best Goal : Azmi Ayoubi (balamand)
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Best Coach : Jihad Kerdi (rawdat al fayhaa
Players were rewarded
by AUT staff and sports
coordinator Dany Hreikeh
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Trip Occasion for Mid Term Exams |
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Students of Visual Arts in
Education, Drawing I and II,
Painting I and II were
privileged to have their
midterm exams organized in
the open at the Baalback
Roman site. Buses took over
80 students there last
Saturday May 6. For some it
was the first time they had
ever visited this ancient
city and all enjoyed a
wonderful day and showed
their talents and skills.
The rest of the day was
spent interacting with the
community there and learning
more about the formidable
past of the city. Students
were accompanied by
Audio-Visual Arts
coordinator and drawing
instructor Maroun Azoury.
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| Poll
Search Results at Tripoli Book Fair |
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The Tripoli Book Fair held at
Rasheed Karame Fair grounds was
the venue for a presentation by
Dr Imad Salameh of the results
of a poll conducted by AUT
students under his supervision.
Dr Salameh, director of the
Center for Urban Studies at AUT
wanted to poll the Lebanese
about their perceptions of
national issues like
privatization, national
priorities, the relations of
Lebanon with other states and
administrative reforms according
to confessional belongings. The
poll revealed the differences
and similarities of opinion
around those issues between the
different components of the
Lebanese society: Christians,
Sunnis, Shiites and Druze. The
poll results were published over
a month ago in Al Balad
newspaper and the Tripoli
presentation on May 4 in front
of over 200 people coming from
the North community (educational
figures, politicians, civil and
religious authorities, students
and fair visitors) helped remind
the Lebanese of the necessity to
continue national dialogue.
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| Recognition
of AUT Alumnus Achievement |
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The AUT business faculty and over 50
students gathered at the Auditorium
on April 3 at 12:30 pm to meet with
Rawad Khalaf, graduate in Hotel
Management, Class of 2005 to
celebrate his winning the Coffee in
Good Spirit competition held during
the HORECA 2006 exhibition. This win
has allowed Rawad to be selected to
represent Lebanon in the
international coffee competition to
be help in Switzerland May 19-21.
During the gathering, the audience
had the chance to listen to Rawad
(now a restaurant team leader in a
major diner chain outlet) detailing
the preparation for and the details
of the competition. He also
presented a short film showing him
in action during the competition.
Rawad encouraged fellow students to
participate in competitions that
require innovation like the one he
won.
A cake added to the celebration at
the end.
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| An-Nahar Ghassan Hajjar Visits AUT Journalism Class |
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The students of Media in Lebanon and the
Middle East met with An Nahar youth and
education pages editor, Ghassan Hajjar to
learn more about his work at the leading
newspaper and also about working as news
assistant director at New TV station.
The discussions covered issues like
censorship, political affiliations of the
media, circulation issues, editing, and
others. Hajjar encouraged students to engage
in fruitful dialogue and avoid double
stances on national issues related to
confessional belonging.
Hajjar also showed interest in working with
AUT polling unit to conduct surveys on
specific issues. He also encouraged
participation in the photography competition
initiated at An Nahar.
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Research Exchange at AUT |
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Faculty members of AUT and others from
the visiting team from State University
of New York Empire State College met on
February 20 at AUT to exchange results
of research done by both universities.
After a word of welcome by Marcel
Hinain, director of External Relations
and organizer of this meeting, the
director of graduate studies Jean-Claude
Abi Saab started with an expose of the
business trends in the Gulf area and the
needs in university graduates. According
to this study most demand on business
graduates is in the areas of marketing,
sales and hospitality management.
Companies seek people that have not only
university qualifications but also the
right personality. Mr Abi Saab gave an
idea on the size of investments in the
hospitality area. He then moved to
explaining how the business curriculum
at AUT fits the needs of employers on a
course composition side and also on a
student profile side. Courses that
tackle globalization effects being part
of university requirements at AUT and a
curriculum constantly updated with the
contribution of business leaders are
seen to be the best preparation for
success in this part of the world.
Later it was Judi Gerardi’s turn to
expose the results of her research about
learners coming from Lebanon and
studying with SUNY Empire State College.
According to the samples of rationales
collected over the years from Lebanese
students, the main reason stated as
behind the students’ success was the
family contribution (73%). Another
important factor was the personal
motivation. One aspect to be noted in
this research was also the immediate
plans of graduates: find employment
outside of Lebanon.
Next it was the turn of the dean of
Computer Science and Engineering at AUT,
Dr Walid Saba, to speak on the current
research using Artificial Intelligence
undertaken at AUT. The research project
called Digital Agora aims at rendering
research for documents become smarter
using language processing and changing
the base of search from keywords to
subjects. Applications are found in the
Internet search engines and in the
document management systems. Dr Saba
said a prototype was being developed and
results exposed to the public before the
summer 2006.
Last it was AUT’s Dr Imad Salameh’s turn
to expose the results of his poll done
by AUT students aiming at showing how
different communities in Lebanon
prioritize issues and how they value
public services. The study included
opinions on privatization, corruption,
electoral law, public sector management
and other topics that are very relevant
in today’s political life in Lebanon.
The meeting ended with a commitment to
meet again in July with more exchange on
a faculty level.
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