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Inaugural Event held at the Munib & Angela Masri Building at the AUB

The new Munib & Angela Masri Building at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will host its inaugural event on Tuesday, September 4, in the new engineering lecture hall. 

AUBThe inaugural symposium on energy, natural resources, and the environment will be opened by Edgo founder Munib R. Masri, Dr. Fadlo Khuri, AUB President, and Dr. Philip Khoury, Chairman of the AUB Board of Trustees.

The symposium will include a presentation on the new building by Dr. Alan Shihadeh, Dean of the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, which will be housed in the Munib & Angela Masri Building.

Other speakers will include Dr. Sharon Mosher, Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas, who will present on the role of universities in addressing 21st-century global earth challenges.

To conclude the day, Dr. Nesreen Ghaddar, Director of the Masri Institute, will provide an overview of the Institute’s role and future initiatives.

Attendees will then be invited to tour the new building and enjoy a rooftop lunch.