CMU-Q receives five NPRP grants

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar have received five grants in the eighth cycle of Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)’s flagship National Priorities Research Program. As the major funding program in Qatar, NPRP encourages research activities that are aligned with the four pillars of the Qatar National Research Strategy: energy and environment; health and life sciences; social sciences, arts and humanities; and computer science and ICT.

The awarded proposals are:

• “SLATE Q- Scaffolding Literacy in Academic and Tertiary Environments: The Case of Communication in Information Systems,” by Silvia Pessoa, CMU-Q, Divakaran Liginlal, CMU-Q, Selma Limam Mansar, CMU-Q, Susan Hagan, CMU-Q, Ryan Miller, Kent State University, Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney.

• “Testing English Reading Comprehension through Deep Text Analysis and Question Generation,” by Kemal Oflazer, CMU-Q, and Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University.

• “New mathematical models for the large strain swelling response of biological tissues: Applications to Edema, Inflammation, and Pregnancy,” by Thomas Pence, Michigan State University, and Hasan Demirkoparan, CMU-Q.

• “Towards Mobile Opportunistic Cloud Computing: Enabling Generic Computational Offloading to Extreme Heterogeneous Entities,” by Khaled Harras, CMU-Q, and Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Texas A&M University in Qatar.

• “Development of Novel Antibiotic, Antiparasitic and Anticancer Agents,” by Gordon Rule, Carnegie Mellon University.