On
Wednesday, 17/4/2019, the Faculty of Marine Sciences organized a scientific day
for the academic year 2018/2019 under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Musa Al-Lozi.
The assistant of the President, Prof. Dr. Marouf Khalaf, was assigned to attend
this event. The scientific day opened by the reading of verses from the Holy
Quran. Prof. Dr. Marouf
Khalaf, Dean of the Faculty of Marine Sciences, delivered a speech followed by
a speech by the Head of both Coastal Environment and Marine Biology Departments,
Dr. Zeinab Arabeyyat. Then a presentation about the Faculty during the academic
year 2018/2019 was showed, included: academic and administrative staff members as
well as students, laboratories (teaching and research) in the marine science
station and finally some activities happened during that period (prepared by Eman
Al-Absi). Then the external speakers gave many oral talks as following:
- Dealing with Difficult
People - Dr. Nidal Majali (Ayla Oasis)
- Genetically modified
foods (GMO) are good for human health - Group of students of Biology
- A Talk:
"Safety/Risk Assessment of GMO" - Dr. Abdulmajeed Al-Ajlouni (Aqaba
Special Economic Zone Authority - Aqaba International Laboratories Bin Hayyan)
- Talk:"Hepatitis"
- Dr. Zaid Al-Sudi
The
day was ended with a story of success from a graduate student from the Faculty
of Marine Sciences "Muntaser Al-Mansi", where he described his
success in studying his PhD at a university in France.
Besides
the lectures, many students from biology department and the campus were widely
participated in presenting various subjects and issues in our daily life such
as drugs, junk food meals, diabetes, recycling of household waste, soap
industry. Moreover, many scientific experiments were applied during that day.