Events
General News
19 February, 2023
The Office of Alumni Affairs is excited to let you know that beginning February 16, 2023, KAUST graduate alumni are welcome to return to KAUST anytime they want!
What you need to know:
• All facilities and services can be accessed by the alumnus and their accompanying dependents, except for KAUST Health (unless is case of an emergency), daycare facilities and The KAUST School.
• To register your visit, you need your former KAUST ID number to complete the VMS form.
• All alumni will need to enter their up-to-date information when requesting a visit to KAUST.
• A maximum of eight dependents are permitted for each visit.
• Alumni and their accompanying dependents can stay for up to seven days.
• Alumni can reserve their stay directly with The Alkhozama Hotel at KAUST.
For queries about visits to KAUST, please visit the website and contact VisitorCenter@KAUST.EDU.SA.
We look forward to welcoming you home.
Alumni in the News
Luis Francisco Villalobos (MS' 12, Chemical Engineering) joins USC Viterbi, bringing expertise in separation technology for energy transition and water filtration. His interest lies in how this process can be harnessed at an atomic scale using advanced membranes made from energy-efficient materials. These cutting-edge membranes can secure our drinkable water supply, capture valuable elements from waste products, and aid the transition to clean energy.
USC
Aubrie O’Rourke (PhD '15, Marine Science) is helping grow space crops – technology that will one day provide fresh food for astronauts on long duration space missions. O’Rourke is a project scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where she performs both fundamental and application-based science.
NASA
Uvera's main product, Aurora, is a next-generation artificial intelligence of things device that can increase the shelf-life of fresh food up to 97% on average, within only 30 seconds and without using any chemicals.
Entrepreneur Middle East
KAUST alumni, Computer Science Assistant Professor Faisal Nawab at the University of California, Irvine, leads a research team to develop projects for technology companies in Silicon Valley, topped by Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly named Facebook, Inc.
Saudi Gazette
An international group of scientists from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) led by Parsifal Islas Morales (currently at the Institute of Biology (IB-UNAM) and Luis Felipe Jiménez García of the Faculty of Sciences (FC-UNAM), have made a surprising finding in the world of biology. According to his research, published in the scientific journal "Frontiers in Microbiology", the presence of a nucleolus in archaea, a group of prokaryotic cells, has been discovered. Read more here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1075071/full
UNAM Article in Spanish
Special News
19 February, 2023
The Office of Alumni Affairs is excited to let you know that beginning February 16, 2023, KAUST graduate alumni are welcome to return to KAUST anytime they want!
What you need to know:
• All facilities and services can be accessed by the alumnus and their accompanying dependents, except for KAUST Health (unless is case of an emergency), daycare facilities and The KAUST School.
• To register your visit, you need your former KAUST ID number to complete the VMS form.
• All alumni will need to enter their up-to-date information when requesting a visit to KAUST.
• A maximum of eight dependents are permitted for each visit.
• Alumni and their accompanying dependents can stay for up to seven days.
• Alumni can reserve their stay directly with The Alkhozama Hotel at KAUST.
For queries about visits to KAUST, please visit the website and contact VisitorCenter@KAUST.EDU.SA.
We look forward to welcoming you home.