A Magnetic Attraction

“It is a marvelous feeling when you identify a solution that no-one else saw before, and you know this solution has incredible potential for helping people in need to live a better life,” KAUST Ph.D. student Abdullah Almansouri

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Meeting Nobel laureates

In 1950, Franz Karl Hein and Gustav Wilhelm Parade, physicians from the small German town and island of Lindau, came up with the concept of a forum for Nobel laureates to carry out scientific exchange in Lindau. A year later—and with the assistance of Count Lennart Bernadotte, a grandson of King Gustaf V of Sweden and someone with many contacts in Stockholm—the two pioneers realized their dream in the form of the first “European Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Medicine.”

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Relishing the ‘McLaren experience’ at the 2019 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix

Over F1’s storied 69-year history, innovative engineering coupled with meticulous design has remained of paramount importance. F1 teams constantly call on their designers and engineers to push the limits of their machines in pursuit of the coveted annual Formula One World Drivers’ Championship and the Formula One World Constructors’ Championship.

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The sky’s the limit for FalconViz

By David Murphy, KAUST News FalconViz, one of the University’s homegrown startups, has recently been included in the prestigious Forbes Middle East “Top 100 Startups In The Arab World 2017” list. The startup, which focuses on 3-D aerial surveying and mapping using unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is the brainchild of four co-founders: Anas Dahlawi, FalconViz general manager and KAUST Visual […]

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Five-week writing experience leads to KAUST enrollment

By David Murphy, KAUST News James Scott Berdhal originally came to KAUST through a pilot program. The five-week writing program was offered by the KAUST Communications Department exclusively to students and alumni of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. It was a one-time opportunity the University was testing, and of the three students selected and interviewed, […]

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