Photo Caption: President Shin (fifth from right) and Khalifa University Executive Vice President Arif Sultan Al Hammadi cut the tape during the opening ceremony of the joint research center at KAIST on July 5. The Joint Research Center partnering KAIST and Khalifa University has been completed and the opening of…
The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings shows just how competitive global higher education has become, with increases in both the number of papers produced by universities in the ranking, and the number of citations received on those papers, according to QS. There were more than 94,000 responses to the…
Model of how the beam-down concentrator would focuse the solar flux onto a fixed receiver underneath IMAGE @Wahaj Solar Our “back of the envelop” communication with researchers is that the US $3 per gallon of gasoline equivalent (GGE) per kilogram of hydrogen could be obtainable,” said Al Maaitah, whose start-up…
New technique makes it possible to image the fouling of membranes in 3-D, could lead to better antifouling materials. Oil and water are famously reluctant to mix fully together. But separating them completely — for example, when cleaning up an oil spill or purifying water contaminated through fracking — is…
From May 1st to 2nd, Tsinghua University Vice President and Provost Yang Bin visited the United Arab Emirates to attend the Times Higher Education Asia Universities Summit and delivered a keynote speech. During the summit, Yang Bin also visited Khalifa University to discuss academic cooperation between the two universities. The…
Our ‘Sustainability Series’ continues with a look to the future for aviation fuel; we spoke to Jose Gerardo Gonzalez Barron, from the SBRC, who told us how fuel from halophytic plants is the way forward. Can you give us a brief overview of what you do as the Sustainable Bioenergy…
ABU DHABI, 10th April, 2019 (WAM) — The UAE Space Agency and Krypto Labs have announced today the two winning teams of the GeoTech Innovation Programme. The winners were awarded funding of AED100,000 in cash and AED500,000 in kind, as well as the opportunity to accelerate and transform their innovative…
RIYADH, 10th April, 2019 (WAM) — The Ministry of Education signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia, to develop the digital education system, and several Emirati universities signed twinning agreements with their Saudi counterparts. The signing took place during the participation of an…
KAIST President Shin Sung-chul (right) and Arif Al Hammadi, executive vice president of Khalifa University (KU), take a picture after the opening ceremony for the KAIST-KU Joint Research Center on April 8. Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are strengthening their cooperation in the fields of the Fourth Industrial…
Artwork by Maritsa Kissamitaki 2019 Solar panels and wind turbines coupled with energy storage offer a better hope for tackling climate change than trying to capture carbon from fossil fuel power stations, according to new research published by Nature Energy. Carbon capture technologies – that is new, or as yet undeveloped,…