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LAU Startups Secure Funding at Spark25 Pitch iDay
 

LAU’s Fouad Makhzoumi Innovation Center awarded startups seed funding as part of its annual Spark Pitch iDay. The winning ideas span AI, sustainability, education and inclusion, and bolster Lebanon’s entrepreneurial future.

 
   
 
 

A Precedent for Giving

 
     
 
 
A Precedent for Giving
 
 
 

Trustee and Banque BEMO Chair Riad Obegi contributed the economic rights of part of his shares in a private company to LAU, setting a university first in a donation mechanism.

 
 
 

Global PhD Partnerships

 
     
 
 
Global PhD Partnerships
 
 
 

The School of Engineering has launched a national, interdisciplinary doctoral recruitment program in collaboration with partner universities abroad, blending academic mobility with high-impact research.

 
 
 

Naming in Honor of Dr. Mawad

 
     
 
 
Naming in Honor of Dr. Mawad
 
 
 

The newly renovated Block D at the LAU Medical Center–Rizk Hospital now bears former President Michel E. Mawad’s name in recognition of his years of service to LAU and healthcare.

 
 
     
     
     
  Empowering LAU Staff for an AI-Enabled Future  
 
 
 

Lifelong Learning

Throughout the summer, LAU staff attended a two-day workshop on the practical, ethical and strategic potential of AI, to integrate it into their daily work. Organized by the Human Resources Department, in collaboration with the Academy of Continuing Education, the hands-on, interactive training engaged nearly two-thirds of LAU’s workforce.

 
     
     
 
 

Set Up for Success

 
     
 
 
Set Up for Success
 
 
 

Dr. Georges Chedid (MD ’22), an internal medicine resident at Harvard Medical School-affiliated Mount Auburn Hospital, has earned two prestigious honors that testify to the early signs of excellence he had demonstrated back at LAU.

 
 
 

Alumna-Faculty Collaboration

 
     
 
 
Alumna-Faculty Collaboration
 
 
 

Oxford DPhil candidate and LAU alumna Josiane Matar moderated a symposium on Syrian refugees’ return with LAU Assistant Professor Jasmin Lilian Diab. The event at Oxford University delved into timely debates that questioned policy frameworks.

 
 
 

Promoting National Sports Health

 
     
 
 
Promoting National Sports Health
 
 
 

LAU medical faculty joined sports scientists, medical professionals and industry experts to explore key issues at the intersection of sports and health, where they presented at Asia’s first FIBA Health & Performance Seminar.

 
 
 
     
 


 
 

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Save the Date

 
     
 
 
 

The Next Wave of Medical Education: Redefining Healthcare in the AI Era

September 19–20, 2025

Beirut and Byblos campuses

 
 
 
 

Waste Not, Want Not Symposium

September 22, 2025
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Beirut campus, Irwin Hall Auditorium

 
 
 
 

Pharmacy Forward: Advancing Patient Care

October 4, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Beirut campus, Irwin Hall Auditorium

 
 
 


 
 

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