2021-2022 Research Fellowship Recipients

The following NYUAD students were awarded a Post-Graduation Research Fellowship, to take part in a year of full-time intensive and independent research from September 2021 - August 2022.

Senior students who meet the eligibility criteria are invited to submit a research proposal, outlining details of their intended research project, including anticipated research activities, a timeline, and specific milestones. This must be supported by a cover letter detailing the student’s interest and enthusiasm for a career in academia, as well as a recommendation letter from the supervising faculty.

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See images from the students' research projects, below.

Student Name	Faculty Supervisor	Project
Nawal Aljaeedi	Olivia Cheung	The Configuration Effect of Musical Notation Reading
Lubnah Ansari	May Al-Dabbagh, Surabhi Sharma	Love in the Time of Love-Jihad: Hindu-Muslim Marriages in India
Niccolò Acram Cappelletto	Robert Parthesius, Alia Yunis	What Goes into a Unesco Nomination? Alternative Heritage Practices in Eritrea and UAE
Keziah Johnson	Olivia Cheung	The Impact and Influence of Technology Supported Pedagogy in Higher Education: NYUAD Case Study
Katharina Klaunig	Nancy Gleason	Class Participation of First-Year Students at NYUAD
Kacper Lecki	Andrea Macciò	Impact of Wandering Black Holes on Galaxy Formation: Implementation of Gravitational Recoil in the Nihao Project
Vince Nguyen	Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Joerg Blumtritt (funded by CITIES)	Interfacing Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors with Apple Watch: a Self-Quantified Approach to Raising Awareness of Air Pollution
Keshana Ratnasingham	Joan Barcelo	The Legacies of Exposure to In-Group Violence on Ethnic Reconciliation: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Oscar Sapkota	Piergiorgio Percipalle	The Role of Nuclear Myosin 1 in Regulating Mitochondrial Gene Expression and Neurogenesis
Sungmin Sohn	Ali Diabat	Optimization for Drone-Truck Combined Operations Routing Synchronization Problem
Thais Thomas	Fatiah D. Touray	Classroom Comfort?: An Examination of Student Responses to Faculty Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Yao Xu	Kinga Makovi	When the Overseas Chinese “Go Back to their Country”: Investigating Unequal Treatment Toward Returnees in Mainland China Amid the Pandemic

Project Images

Post-Graduation Research Fellows share images from their 2021-2022 projects.