CMU-Q Celebrates Class of 2023 Graduation Ceremony

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, celebrated the graduation of 104 students from 32 countries at a ceremony in Education City. The graduates received their diplomas in front of faculty, family, friends, alumni, and special guests.

Dean of CMU-Q Michael Trick addressed the graduates: “Class of 2023, the world will continue to change in unexpected ways, but you know how to face change and drive progress in a way that will make the world a better place.” CMU-Q announced a number of awards during the ceremony. Associate teaching professor of biological sciences Ihab Younis received the Meritorious Teaching Award. The dean recognized five Qatar Campus Scholars, Fatima Alhamadi, Ihsane Sadiki, Nour Ali, Mohammed Al Jawaheri, and Premices Irakoze, with Alhamadi and Al Jawaheri also named as Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars.

As well, five students received Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards for placing first in their respective programs: Zoya Farooqui for biological sciences, Ekram Bouhroum for business administration, Nour Tamer Elsayed Ali for computational biology, Abubakr Ahmed Bakri Mohamed for computer science, and Erin Susan Thomas for information systems.

Representing the class were Latifa Alnaimi as poem reader and Malak Alseaf as the student speaker.

The Class of 2023 includes graduates in biological sciences, business administration, computational biology, computer science and information systems.

Source: Qatar News Agency