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DOHA, QATAR – September 12, 2026 –Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has announced a new research grant program to support high-impact, competitive faculty research. Accelerator grants are poised to transform the campus research landscape, providing long-term faculty members the support to expand their scopes of inquiry and scholarly output. CMU-Q is a Qatar Foundation partner university. The new Accelerator grants mark a major milestone in the university’s internal research…

Doha – September 8, 2026: HERO, a startup project pioneered by two students and one alumnus from Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), advanced to the 2026 EF Hult Prize Global Accelerator, becoming the second team from Qatar to reach this stage of the global competition since 2021. HERO is one of 21 startups that were selected to participate in the 2026 EF Hult Prize Global Accelerator, a four-week, in-person program held in the UK, which brought together promising student ventures from a…