Qatar University College of Arts & Sciences (QU-CAS) student Shamma AlKuwari won the Regional Winner award of The Undergraduate Awards (UA) 2016 Programme for her paper titled “A Comparison of Early Illustrations of George Herbert’s “The Altar” with English Architecture”.
Shamma AlKuwari, 5th-year English Literature & Linguistics student, presented the highest performing paper in the Africa and the Middle East region in the English Literature category.
The Undergraduate Awards received a record number of submissions for its 2016 Programme totaling a massive 5,514 papers of undergraduates from 244 institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Island of Ireland, Latin America, Middle East, Oceania, USA & Canada. The Global Winner is the highest-performing paper within its category and the Regional Winners are the highly commended papers from their region within a category. CAS Dean Dr Rashid Ahmed Al-Kuwari said: “Participating in these competitions helps our students to build their knowledge, experience and skills. This underlines CAS’ efforts to provide students with a highly intellectual environment to explore and achieve their potential, in line with QU’s commitment to shape a generation of professionals and leaders who can drive the country’s future towards a knowledge-based economy.”
UA CEO Louise Hodgson said: “This is a huge achievement for Qatar University and its student. UA received the highest number of submissions to date with only the best papers making it through the judging process - the competition was extremely tough and the judges were astounded at the high quality of undergraduate research in the program this year. Congratulations to this year’s successful entrants.” Shamma AlKawari said: “The origins of the paper started as a small in-class assignment in an upper level English class and grew when I conducted my capstone. I received excellent one-on-one supervision that helped me shape a paper that I am truly proud of. I was encouraged to participate in The Undergraduate Awards 2016 Programme and I am delighted to have performed so well in the competition. I am truly grateful for the support provided by Qatar University.”
The Undergraduate Awards is the world’s largest international academic awards program, recognizing excellent research and original work across the sciences, humanities, business and creative arts. Highly commended entrants are invited to meet their fellow awardees at the annual UA Global Summit which will take place in Dublin, Ireland on November 8-11.
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