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<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center">MIT Arab Students’ Organization</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center">


<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The 8^th Annual
Science and Technology Awards Banquet</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><font size="2"><b>Saturday, April 9th,
2011</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><font size="2">The Ballroom at the Mandarin Oriental Boston</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">


<font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><font size="2"><span><b>Keynote speaker and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient</b></span></font></p>


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</b></span></font></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Former Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan<br>Former Provost of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)<br>


<br>With a keynote speech by<br><b><span>Ambassador Theodore Kattouf</span></b></font>














<font size="2"><br>President and CEO of AMIDEAST<br>Former US Ambassador to the UAE and Syria<br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center">


<font size="2"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><font size="2">We proudly announce the winners of our three other categories:</font></p>


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<font size="2"><u>The Young Professional Award Recipient</u><br><b>Dr. Marwan Refaat</b><br>Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco<br> <br><u>The Graduate Student Award Recipient</u><br><b>Nada Hashmi</b><br>


The Sloan School of Management,  MIT<br><br><u>The Undergraduate Student Award Recipient</u><br><b>John Boghossian</b><br>Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Economics, MIT</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center">


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<font size="2"><b>Buy your tickets now through this secure <a href="http://mit.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=163" target="_blank">link</a> before prices go up on April 6th!</b><br>Regular tickets $50<br>Student tickets $25 (limited quantity)<br>


Prices go up to $75 on <i>April 6th</i><br>Business attire is suggested.<br><a href="http://arab.mit.edu/events/science-tech-awards/" target="_blank">Event web page link</a></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center">


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