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In a joint meeting between Dr Ahmed Zewail, Chairman of Zewail City’s Board of Trustees, and Mr Hisham Ezz Al-Arab, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CIB Foundation, it was concluded that it is of paramount importance to support some of the most brilliant minds in the country in order to build the new technological base of Egypt.

The CIB Foundation stated in its press release on the partnership, “We firmly believe in the ability of Zewail City of Science and Technology, with its world-renowned staff of scientists, to choose talented youth to join its ranks and to provide them with a well-developed scientific and practical environment that will provide them with the foundations of modern science and that will enable the growth of their competitive skills. CIB Foundation is proud of its partnership with Zewail City and is looking forward to productive cooperation with it.”

Dr Ahmed Zewail added, “On behalf of the Board of Trustees of Zewail City of Science and Technology, I am pleased with the support of scholarships from CIB Foundation and it is this type of support that will enable the City to attract some of the best youth in Egypt; a fitting tribute after the January 25 Revolution. We look forward to future collaborations with the Foundation.”

For further details, contact Zewail City Director of Communications and Development, Nadia El-Awady, at: press at zewailcity dot edu dot eg.

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Dr Yehea Ismail, Director of the Center for Nanoelectronics and Devices

“On behalf of the Board of Trustees of Zewail City, I am very pleased that Dr Ismail will be supporting our effort in the National Project for Scientific Renaissance,” commented Dr Ahmed Zewail. “Dr Ismail is a known leader in the field of nanoelectronics and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design, and his contributions have had scientific and industrial impacts worldwide,” Zewail stated. “The new initiative between Zewail City and AUC will undoubtedly make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. We look forward to Dr Ismail’s leadership of the Center and to the anticipated impact on research and industry of this new frontier of technology,” he added.

Nanoelectronics is the science and engineering of devices that are designed and analyzed on the length scale of a billionth of a meter. This scale represents a new limit that is beyond those known in current computers by at least a thousand fold. The design and analysis of such minute devices are nontrivial and so is their fabrication.

Significant advances have been made – and will be made in the years to come – as a result of such impressive miniaturization. These advances are not only in the realm of scientific research but also in applied technologies such as in the areas of energy harvesting and conversion and in biomedical diagnostics.

Dr Ismail’s focus at the Center will be on the design and analysis of new devices and assemblies, and the partnership will benefit from the collective human resources and state-of-the-art facilities at both institutions.

“In this critical time of Egypt’s history, I find it imperative to establish a solid technological base that will have far-reaching impact on the economy. It is a privilege to work on this National Project with one of the world’s greatest scientists, Dr Ahmed Zewail,” Ismail said. “It is also a privilege to have the support of Zewail City and the AUC with the vision to cooperate for propelling this advanced technology in Egypt. I look forward to establishing a world-class center of excellence,” he added.

AUC Provost, Dr Medhat Haroun, said, “We are especially pleased that our first collaboration with Zewail City is in the area of nanoelectronics. The worldwide renowned credentials of Dr Yehea Ismail, the incoming director of the Center, will guarantee the success of this collaborative effort. Dr Ismail has distinguished experiences and proven innovations in nanoelectronics that will also attract talented researchers of high quality.”

Also commenting on the collaboration between the two institutions, Dr Sherif Sedky, Zewail University Founding Provost, said that establishing a joint research center between Zewail City and AUC is a first step towards creating strong inter-university collaboration in cutting edge research areas that will benefit Egypt scientifically and economically. “This partnership and others forthcoming will build upon complementary resources,” he said. “The expertise of Dr. Yehea Ismail, who is a world-renowned scientist in the field of nanoelectronics, will make the center unique and at the forefront of technology,” he added.

Dr Ismail obtained his bachelor of engineering, with distinction and honors, in 1993 from Cairo University. He subsequently received Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Rochester (U.S.A). In 2000, he became a tenured faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University (U.S.A) and has held this position since then. Ismail is a Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transaction on VLSI Systems, a leading journal in the field. He published more than 170 papers in top-ranked journals and conferences, has a number of patents, and he is a co-author of three books.

For further details, contact Zewail City Director of Communications and Development, Nadia El-Awady, at: press at zewailcity dot edu dot eg.

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Dr Sherif Sedky, Zewail University’s newly appointed Founding Provost

“On behalf of the board, I am very pleased that Dr Sherif Sedky has accepted to join our effort in this National Project for Scientific Renaissance,” commented Dr Ahmed Zewail, Chairman of the Board. “Dr Sedky is not only an accomplished scientist and engineer, but he has also displayed a leadership role in building a science center of international repute. I personally look forward to working with him and I know that with his integrity and devotion, the University will greatly benefit. We welcome him as the Founding Provost,” said Zewail.

In his new position as the Chief Academic Officer (CAO), Sedky will be involved in structuring the Zewail University broad curriculum and in developing the general framework for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education at the University. Additionally, with his group, he will incubate research at Zewail City in the general field of micro-electronics and devices with various applications in materials science and biomedical sciences.

The appointment of Provost involved a far-reaching search for scholars from inside and outside the country over the past few months since the inauguration of the City on November 1, 2011. The Board overwhelmingly supports Dr Sedky’s appointment. Sedky is in a unique position because of his previous and current involvement in building infrastructure of scientific research in Egypt and his familiarity with the institutions of research and education in both Egypt and abroad.

“I’m very delighted to join Zewail City, which will be a beacon of science and technology. During this transitional period, Egypt is in dire need for all our efforts and expertise to help shape the future,” Sedky commented. “Today, I am given the opportunity to play a pivotal role in this National Project. Having the trust of Professor Zewail and the Board to be in charge of the realization of the dream of all Egyptians is invaluable. I’m thrilled about this new enterprise and I feel that I have a huge responsibility toward every Egyptian who contributed to this marvelous project,” he said.

Dr Sherif Sedky has outstanding academic and administrative credentials, being involved in both educational and research institutions. He began his career as a graduate of Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering with distinction of the highest honor and then obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He was appointed to Cairo University’s faculty and shortly thereafter he began his scientific career at the American University in Cairo (AUC), where he built a first-rate science center for micro-scale materials studies with a wide range of applications. He is Director of the Yousef Jameel Science & Technology Research Center, and together with his colleagues in engineering, chemistry, physics and biological sciences, the Center has become a real resource with international participation and impact. Sedky is also the associate dean for graduate studies and research and is a professor in the physics department at AUC.

Sedky has been visiting professor at Stanford University and other institutions abroad. His publication and patent records in the general field of micro-electronics and devices are of international quality.

“Dr Sherif Sedky is an extremely talented research scientist and a very effective administrator; we at the American University in Cairo are delighted that his skills will be available not only to our own students and faculty but to the wider research community in Egypt through his association with Zewail City of Science and Technology,” said Dr Lisa Anderson, President of AUC. “The collaboration between AUC and Zewail City represented by this new appointment promises to be an enormously fruitful investment in the future for Egypt,” she added.

For further details, contact Zewail City Director of Communications and Development, Nadia El-Awady, at: press at zewailcity dot edu dot eg.

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Zewail honored nearly 600 members of Zewail City Friends on Friday

Dr Ahmed Zewail, Chairman of the City’s Board of Trustees, thanked the Friends for their continuous support and announced that their event was the first to be held at the City’s main campus in 6th of October City. Zewail proudly noted that the Friends’ page on Facebook currently has nearly 200,000 members.

Zewail explained that the Friends had a democratically elected board in addition to provincial committees all over Egypt. He proceeded to introduce the Friends’ three founding members, Sally Sayed, Mohammed Adel, and Mahmoud Abdel-Samad.

Adel, Chair of Zewail City Friends’ Board, addressed the audience re-affirming the Friends’ moral and financial support of the City until it is properly established and beyond. He also encouraged Zewail City Friends to continue rallying for the support of the Egyptian public to send donations to account number 1000/1000 in any bank in Egypt to build the City’s endowment fund.

Zewail City’s main auditorium in its 6th of October campus witnessed its first event by honoring Zewail City Friends

Mahmoud Abdel-Samad, the Friends’ Field Leader, welcomed members who had traveled from all over the country to participate in the Friday event. “Zewail City Friends are able to make their dream of seeing Zewail City a reality come true,” said Abdel-Samad, speaking at the event. “Egyptian youth are able to do things no one else in the world can do. We want to see a renaissance in Egypt’s education and Zewail City can play an important role in creating this. Egypt Can with its youth and with Zewail City Friends,” he said.

From left to right: Mahmoud Abdel-Samad (Friends’ General Coordinator and Field Leader), Mohammed Adel (Friends’ Chair), Amr Mohamed (SpaceLab finalist), Dr Mohamed Ghoneim (Zewail City Trustee), Sally Sayed (Friends’ Founder), and Yaser Ali (Friends’ Head of IT)

Zewail City Friends was launched on Facebook on June 20, 2011 as an immediate answer to Dr Ahmed Zewail’s call to Egyptians to support the City. Within five days, 140,000 people had joined the page.

During the event on Friday, Dr Ahmed Zewail also introduced 18-year-old Amr Mohamed from Alexandria, who was selected among thousands of international entrants as one of the top six global finalists in Spacelab, a worldwide initiative for students to design a science experiment that could be performed in space. Spacelab is organized by YouTube and Lenovo in cooperation with Space Adventures and space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Zewail warmly joked with the audience that he was afraid that soon people will ask, “Who is that guy standing next to Amr Mohamed.”

“Zewail City is like the January 25 Revolution,” said Mohamed, addressing the audience. “It gives me hope in tomorrow and it tells me that change is possible. But the change we dream of will not happen through presidential or parliamentary decrees. The change we dream of needs to come from inside each and every one of us. And that is what gives me hope,” Mohamed concluded.

في العام الماضي وافق مجلس أمناء مدينة زويل للعلوم والتكنولوجيا بتاريخ 21-12-2011  على مذكرة التفاهم بين مدينة زويل للعلوم والتكنولوجيا (ممثلةً في الدكتور أحمد زويل والدكتور محمد غنيم) وجامعة النيل (ممثلةً في الدكتور طارق خليل والدكتور مصطفى غانم والدكتور حازم عزت)، وتم التوقيع على هذه المذكرة من أجل تكامل جامعة النيل في المنظومة التعليمية والبحثية في مدينة زويل.  

وتتضمن المذكرة ما يلي:

• ينتقل أعضاء هيئة التدريس والباحثون وطلاب الدراسات العليا بجامعة النيل بكامل هيئتهم إلى مدينة زويل للعلوم والتكنولوجيا.
• يتم تقييم أعضاء هيئة التدريس دوريا حسب المعايير العالمية.
• يستكمل طلاب مرحلة البكالوريوس الحاليين بجامعة النيل دراستهم بالمدينة إلى حين تخرجهم مع منحهم الدرجة العلمية من جامعة النيل ولهم حق الاختيار في الحصول على هذه الدرجة العلمية من جامعة زويل.
• يتم منح الدرجة العلمية لمرحلة البكالوريوس للطلاب الجدد من جامعة زويل.
• يعقد اجتماع في القريب العاجل لدراسة وتقييم الأوضاع المالية والإدارية توطئة لتكامل جامعة النيل مع مدينة زويل.

وبعد توقيع السيد رئيس جامعة  النيل (الدكتور طارق خليل) والسادة نواب الجامعة (الدكتور مصطفى غانم والدكتور حازم عزت) على المذكرة وحتى الآن لم يصدر مجلس أمناء جامعة النيل قراره بالموافقة النهائية على ما جاء في المذكرة.

ورغم ذلك يرحب مجلس أمناء المدينة بالطلاب والباحثين الراغبين بالانضمام إلى هذا المشروع القومي ويكون ذلك عن طريق الاتصال المباشر بالمدينة كما هو موضح أدناه. أما إذا كانت رغبتهم البقاء في جامعة النيل في القرية الذكية فسوف نحرص على التعاون معهم في المستقبل.

بعض الحقائق

تم وضع حجر الأساس لمشروع مؤسسة زويل للعلوم والتكنولوجيا في 1 يناير 2000 على مساحة 300 فدان بمدينة الشيخ زايد. وبعد ثورة الخامس والعشرين من يناير أعيد احياء المشروع بقرار من مجلس الوزراء وتم بالفعل اطلاق المشروع في 1 نوفمبر 2011 “مدينة زويل للعلوم والتكنولوجيا – مشروع مصر القومي للنهضة العلمية” بنفس الموقع بمدينة الشيخ زايد.

المدينة بمكوناتها الثلاثة – الجامعة والمعاهد المتميزة العلمية وهرم التكنولوجيا – تهدف إلى بناء منظومة جديدة للمشاركة في علوم القرن الحادي والعشرين مع النهوض بالتكنولوجيات المحلية إلى مستوى العالمية والذي يهدف في الأساس إلى زيادة الانتاج القومي. وللمدينة دور هام في بناء ما يسمى ﺒـ “المجتمع القائم على المعرفة” وذلك من خلال التعليم المتميز والبحث المستنير وأيضاً التواصل الثقافي محلياً وعالمياً.

جامعة النيل هي جامعة خاصة أسستها المؤسسة المصرية العامة لتطوير التعليم التكنولوجي (مجلس أمناء جامعة النيل) عام 2006 وهي تعمل منذ إنشائها وحتى الآن بمقر لها في القرية الذكية. وقد منحها رئيس الوزراء السابق الدكتور أحمد نظيف 127 فداناً من نفس قطعة الأرض (300 فدان) – السابق الإشارة إليها – في 6 أكتوبر وأنشئ عليها مبنيان بتكلفة من أموال الدولة. ولأسباب قانونية تنازل مجلس أمناء جامعة النيل في 19 فبراير 2011 عن جميع مستحقاته لهذا التخصيص، وذلك  قبل صدور قرار مجلس الوزراء بمشروع مدينة زويل في 11 مايو 2011 وبدء العمل في المدينة في 1 نوفمبر 2011.

وطبقاً لموقع جامعة النيل على الانترنت فإن بها عدد 86 طالباً و264 باحثاً.

لطلاب وباحثي جامعة النيل الراغبين في الانضمام لمدينة زويل للعلوم والتكنولوجيا الرجاء التواصل مع د. نادية العوضي، مسئولة التواصل والتنمية بالمدينة، من خلال البريد الالكتروني التالي: zewailcityNU t @zewailcity.edu.eg

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Dr Sameh Ali

“On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am pleased that Dr Sameh Ali has decided to join us at Zewail City of Science and Technology. His leading scientific research on aging and associated diseases, educational skill, and passion for helping his native country are qualities that shall constitute the basis for success in this National Project of Egypt,” said Zewail City Chairman, Dr Ahmed Zewail.

Ali will establish the Center for Aging and Associated Diseases under the umbrella of Zewail City’s Helmy Institute of Medical Science. This cutting-edge research center is designed to promote and facilitate basic aging research. It employs nontraditional, exceptionally informative, cellular and animal models to investigate the rate of aging. The Center’s researchers will also investigate molecular mechanisms that control the rate of aging with the ultimate goal of uncovering the mechanisms of age-associated diseases including cancer, diabetes, pulmonary hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and cognitive decline.

Ali will also be involved in graduate and undergraduate education and in Zewail City’s organized efforts to disseminate scientific knowledge to the Egyptian and Arab publics.

“During the past few decades, many Egyptian scientists were forced to leave their country due to lack of infrastructure and poor awareness of the importance of scientific research. As one of those scientists, I never stopped dreaming of a return to help my country regain its natural position among developed nations,” Ali commented.

“However,” Ali continued, “realizing this dream seemed so far until I closely followed the great efforts by Dr Ahmed Zewail to establish a state-of-the-art science and technology city. The Zewail City of Science and Technology is something that all Egyptians should be proud of and will definitely tunnel Egypt to a brighter future. Today, I’m really excited and honored to have been given this wonderful opportunity to join these historical efforts to place Egypt back on the track of true advancement. These are exciting times in Egypt. The January 25 Revolution has undoubtedly demonstrated that miracles can in fact happen.”

Professor Sameh Saad Ali graduated from Ain Shams University in 1988 with the highest class-honor and was appointed instructor and later lecturer at the same university. In 1990, he was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education and joined the graduate program in Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Ali obtained his M.Sc. degree in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in 1997 studying the magnetic field effects on free radical chemistry.

From 1998 to 1999 he was invited to work as a post-doctoral fellow in the Technical University, Graz, Austria where he continued his work on magnetic control of chemical reactions. He then extended his research interest to study free radical biology and medicine during his postdoctoral work in Washington University in St. Louis during the period from 2000 to 2005.

Ali became fascinated by the elegance and complexity of the mitochondrion, the tiny powerhouse within our cells that was once free-living bacteria. He was motivated to know more about the critical role of mitochondria in the origin of eukaryotic cells as building blocks of complex life and to explore the importance of oxygen as the driving force behind this fundamental transformation of terrestrial life. Without a formal education in biology, he grasped fundamental concepts in cell biology to begin new research frontiers, including the mitochondrial theory of diseases and aging.

Ali moved to the University of California in San Diego in 2005 and was recruited as an assistant professor in the department of medicine after being awarded a highly competitive career award from the National Institute on Aging in 2007 – 2012. The award was substantial, allowing him to devise novel methodologies to detect intracellular levels and dynamics of reactive oxygen species in the context of aging studies.

He has been able to adapt and develop magnetic resonance, spectroscopic, and electrochemical techniques in combination with conventional biochemical methods to study free radical dynamics in multiple organ tissues and cellular domains.

Dr Sameh Ali published more than thirty papers in high profile journals including Science , the Journal of Neurosciences , the Neurobiology of Aging , Aging Cell , Brain Research , Journal of Biological Chemistry , PLoS One , Free Radical Biology and Medicine , Nanomedicine , among others. His work is highly cited and of significant impact in the field of free radical biology and medicine.

For further details, contact Zewail City Head of Communications and Development, Nadia El-Awady, at: press at zewailcity dot edu dot eg.

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Dr Quevedo, center, with members of Zewail City Center for Theoretical Physics

Approximately 50 Egyptian physicists and researchers attended a seminar presented by Dr Fernando Quevedo, the Director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The seminar, held at Zewail City’s Center for Theoretical Physics, was titled “String Theory and Physics”. Following the seminar, Quevedo took a tour of the Center for Theoretical Physics and other areas of the City. Quevedo also met with Dr Ahmed Zewail to discuss future collaborations.