Awards

• Highly commended award research in STEM for THE Arab awards for the project Epigenetic of trauma 2025

• TRT World Citizen Award (Educator) 2025

• TWAS Fellow 2025

• Yidan Chen Global Education Fellow, Harvard 2024-2025

• Falling walls in life sciences finalists for the project Epigenetic of violence 2024

• Fellow International Science Council 2024

• Skoll Fellow 2024

• Robert Bosch Fellow 2023

• Fellow Morse College, Yale University 2022

• Fair Saturday Award 2022

• Fellow AETDEW the Academy of engineering and technology for the developing world, 2022

• Schwab Social Entrepreneur WEF 2022

• HundrED 2021

• One of 50 women of influence in the Arab World 2021 Arabian Business magazine’s list

• Int Society for Science and religion ISSCR Cambridge, 2021

• Innovation and entrepreneurship forum second place Philadelphia University Jordan, 2021

• Nansen UNHCR Award 2020

• Sharjah Access start up Award 2020

• Cmelikova International Scholar in Leadership and Ethics. University of Richmond, Virginia USA 2019

• Ashoka Fellow, 2019

• UN Science, Technology and Innovation Award 2019 at the STI forum

• Arab Science and Technology Foundation 2019 Award in service of the advancement of science and
  technology

• Klaus Jacob Social Entrepreneurship Award 2018

• World Literacy Summit award 2018

• UI Carver College of Medicine’s Distinguished Alumni Awards 2018

• UNHCR’s Protecting Urban Refugee Children Innovation Challenge Winner 2017

• Jordan Star of Science, Category Biology, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, World Science Forum 2017

• UNESCO King Sejong International Literacy Prize 2017

• We Love Reading: Refugee-led Reading Circle, Promising Practices in Refugee Education initiative 2017 Pearson, UNHCR and Save the children 2017

• Runner up for the Core77 design awards for social impact 2017

• Aspen Ideas Festival 1 scholar 2017

• Harvard Radcliff Fellowship award 2017

• World HRD Congress Women Super Achiever Award 2017

• On the list of 500 most influential Muslims 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

• PEER Award 2014 for the project “The Three Circles of Alemat,” PI, NSF/USAID, 2014-2017

• The inaugural IIE Global Changemaker Award in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the
  Fulbright 2016

• The Stars Award for Impact 2015

• The Arab Women Association Golden Award 2015

• Top idea in the IDEO challenge 2015

• Honored by his Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan as a woman leader 2015

• ranked 12 in CEO Middle East magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2015, 2016, 2017

• Women in Science hall of fame, US Embassy Amman’s Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Office for the Middle East, 2015

• ranked 13 in CEO Middle East magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2014

• 50 Most Talented Social Innovators 2015 at the World CSR Congress

• Order of Al Hussein for Distinguished Contributions of the Second Class. Granted to "those who have made distinguished contributions to society" 2014

• Winner for the WISE Award Qatar Foundation 2014

• Eisenhower Fellowship innovative program 2014

• “We Love Reading” recognized by Center for Education Innovation, 2014

• selected as one of the 100 most powerful Arabs in the World 2014 in the category “geniuses” by Arabian Business magazine

• Named one of the list of GOOD 2014

• “We Love Reading” recognized by UNESCO, 2014

• Named one of the most influential women scientist of the Islamic world 2014 by UK based Muslim Science magazine

• Named Citizen of the Next Century List for 2013

• Library of congress Literacy Award for best practices for “We Love Reading,” 2013

• Fulbright Occasional Lecture Award Spring 2013

• Fulbright Research Scholarship first place, 2012-2013 Research at Yale University Stem cells and micro RNA

• Featured in the Innovation for education book by Charles Leadbeater, WISE Qatar Foundation, 2012

• Finalist for the “women in academia network” for the Alumni Engagement innovation fund by the tate alumni, 2011

• Nominated by the Hashemite University for the “Women in Science” award offered by the Islamic Development Bank (2011)

• Complimentary membership to the Clinton Global Initiative 2010

• Ahel el Hemmeh” initiative, nominated for the award and got voted in the final 30 runner-ups for “We Love Reading”

• Awarded the 2009 Arab world social innovator award by Synergos for the project "we love reading"

• Nominated as one of Ahel Al- himmeh. An initiative by Queen Rania of Jordan to recognize individuals from the Jordan community who do volunteer work for the community and have made a difference

• the King Hussein Cancer Institute for cancer and biotechnology award 2009

• Fulbright Alumni Development Awards (ADA) 2008

• Fulbright Scholar 2000-2002

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral award - honorary mention 2001

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