Faculty Awards
Dr. Moussa Mohammadian
Congratulations to Moussa Mohammadian for being awarded a fellowship from the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh to spend the Spring term 2024 as a Visiting Fellow in the Center.
This fellowship is the most prestigious one in the field of Philosophy of Science. Dr. Mohammadian's project focuses on the interactions between early logical empiricism and C.S. Peirce's philosophy, especially his philosophy of science. His aim is twofold: 1) study why Peirce's philosophy of science got marginalized in the course of the development of the 20th-century philosophy of science, especially in the US, despite the warm reception that it received from early advocates and sympathizers of logical empiricism; 2) to bring to the foreground some of Peirce's valuable insights, missed from the mainstream philosophy of science due to this marginalization.
Student Awards
Rayane El Masri
Congratulations for being awarded the Graduate student conference award. This award will fund Rayane's participation in the AI4 Society Symposium Series: AI and Agency hosted by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), that will be held on January 16th, 2024 at Stellenboch University, South Africa. Rayane will present a paper on “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Social Robots: A Neuro-Atypical Perspective on Personhood."
Issam Aldahman
Congratulations for being awarded Dr. Philip K. Hitti Prize, class of 2022-23
An AUB alumnus, Philip Hitti taught at AUB before enrolling at Columbia University to pursue his PhD. After World War I he returned to AUB where he taught until 1926. He later went back to the US where he is credited with creating the discipline of Arabic studies. Established in 2008, this award is given to the senior student who, in the judgment of the president, the dean of FAS, and the department chair, exemplifies in their academic career the scholarly spirit of AUB at its best.