UJ Professors Ghaleb Rababah, Fatima Afifi and Mohammed Alaween have been awarded the 2015 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers.
The professors were among 16 scholars selected for this year's award from a total of 194 candidates from Arab universities and scientific institutions.
Dr. Ghaleb Rababah, a professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, has won the Arts, Human Sciences, Education and Social Affairs Award – Role of education curriculum in socialization.
Professor of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry Fatima Afifi, has won the Health and Medical Sciences Award - Medicinal plants extracts and their uses.
The Economic and Administrative Sciences Award - Economic and Administrative Reform and its Association with Political Reform, has been granted to Prof. Mohammed Alawin. Alawin is professor of Economics at the School of Business, Department of Business Economics.
According to the Award's Website, it is granted in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements such that its dissemination contributes to the advancement of scientific and applied knowledge and to solving problems of main concern at the local, regional and global levels in addition to promoting a culture for scientific research.
Since it was first launched in 1982, the award has been granted to 401 professors and researchers from various universities and institutions in Arab world.