Teaching Evolution in the MENA region: Challenges & Opportunities

April 5th, 2024 4 PM CET/10 AM EST

Doctor Mohamed Bouaouina, Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (CMU-Q)

See it at –https://youtu.be/JlrHagHLkXo

Biosketch:

Mohamed Bouaouina is an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (CMU-Q). Mohamed graduated with a PhD in physiology and physiopathology from Paris VI Pierre and Marie Curie University (France) in 2005. After his postdoc at Yale University, he joined the Biological Sciences program at  Carnegie Mellon University Qatar as a Teaching Faculty. As a cell biologist, Mohamed carries out his research on cancer cell adhesion and migration and focuses his teaching on cell, developmental, and cancer biology. Since 2017, Mohamed developed an interest in teaching evolutionary biology to undergraduate students. He strives to bridge the divide between science and faith in a multicultural environment. He received the 2020 Wimmer Faculty Fellowship for the Development of Teaching. In 2023 he co-organized the Workshop on Evolutionary Biology in the MENA region, the first workshop on evolution in Qatar.

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