University News, December 2009

Texas A&M University at Qatar will be closed on 17 Dec. for the Qatar national holiday. University offices will be open 20-23 Dec. and will close for the semester break from 24 Dec.to 2 Jan. inclusive. University offices will resume regular working hours on 3 Jan. and classes will resume 10 Jan.

Texas A&M University at Qatar on Thursday recognized three August 2009 graduates and seven engineering students who are degree candidates for the December term at a ceremony in the Texas A&M Engineering Building.

Texas A&M at Qatar, in collaboration with the Qatar Public Works Authority, offered a short course this week for 40 engineers to improve traffic safety in Qatar.

The National Science Foundation and Texas A&M at Qatar, in collaboration with the University of Central Florida, the University of Minnesota and Qatar National Research Fund, next week will host “Electrical Energy Education and Research.”

Winners have been announced for the English 210 technical writing trade show held on 6 Dec. Students showcased the packaging and specifications of new products and student software video casts.

Texas A&M University at Qatar on 17 Dec. will recognize seven engineering students who are degree candidates for the December term.

Texas A&M at Qatar English 210 technical writing students on 6 Dec. will participate in an end-of-semester trade show.

Dr. Swaroop Darbha, professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, on 8 Dec. will present “Routing a collection of heterogeneous vehicles with motion constraints.”

Jennifer Maruska, assistant lecturer of political science, and students from her politics of global inequality course have raised more than $1,000 to promote efforts against human trafficking.

Dr. Marvin Rowe, professor of chemistry, has an essay titled “Nondestructive radiocarbon dating: naturally mummified infant burial bundle from SW Texas” in a new book of collected papers, “Readings in Chronometric Analysis: Selections from American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity, 1935-2006,” published by the Society for American Archaeology Press.