Four Qatari high school students with a passion for science have been chosen as the winners of the annual Healing Hands Essay Competition held in May, 2017.
The four winners are Alia Salman Ashkanani and Ghalya Salman Ashkanani, both of Michael E Debakey High School; Khalifa Ahmed Elmagarmid from Qatar Academy; and Mashael Salem Al Naemi of American School of Doha. They each received a two-week, fully-funded scholarship.
The first week was spent at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York where they worked in Weill Cornell Medicine’s world-class biomedical research laboratories, attended lectures with faculty, visited New York-Presbyterian Hospital and learned what life is like for a medical student at the college.
The second week was spent at Cornell University in Ithaca where they learned reading scientific articles and writing and recording research results. WCM-Q funded the trip for each of the winners along with a chaperone to accompany them.
HEALING HANDS ESSAY COMPETITION
NewYork Research Experience
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