Provost's Research Fellowship Award (PRFA)


The Provost’s Research Fellowship Award supports faculty in completing a significant scholarly or creative project by providing a semester with no teaching assignments plus a small research fund.

This year’s recipients and projects include the following:


Faculty Name

College

Title of the project

Adina Hempel

CACE

City East-West: A Spatial Anthology of Los Angeles and Dubai 

Roberto Fabbri

CACE

Shaping a New Cultural Epicenter: The Architecture of Saadiyat Island

Eric Staples

CHSS The Zayed National Museum Bronze Age Boat Project: the Publication Stage

Fatma Said

CIS Bilingualism in the UAE: issues of language and literacy acquisition, ideologies and policies, sustainability development goals, and the linguistic aspects of the knowledge economy

Alejandro Martin Sposato

CIS An Exploration into Zayed University Careers student’s choices

Zaghum Umar

COB Artificial intelligence applications for analyzing the impact of oil prices on the UAE economy and financial markets

Fatma Taher

CTI Industry 5.0 platform for the healthcare sector using Fog computing in UAE

Babar Shah

CTI Alzheimer's Disease Progression Deep Learning Model

Ouns Bouachir

CTI Elevating Metaverse Security: Zero Trust Authentication Innovations with the Internet of Behavior (IoB)

Ashraf Khalil

CTI Designing a Consensus Algorithm for Quantum Blockchain