1. Academic and Research Committee (ARC)
Chair: Nuha Alhebshi
Vice Chair: Hanan Mohammed
Members: Claudia Sanchez Huerta, Nouf Alsharif and Stephanie Saade

2. Progress Report
Nouf made ARC presentation and brochure for Open House events of Saudi Initiatives (collaborated with Shadi).
We have contacted again with academic student chapters to collect their active Facebook pages or external websites.
Next Thursday: The 1st Training Session of ARC Workshop Series: How to Create and Present Your Scientific Poster from A to Z? Tips from Winners of Poster Competitions!

4. Future Plans
We are organizing a training session for oral presentation skills. Invited speakers:
Mohamed Ismail, the best oral presentation prize winner in the 2nd Edition Nanotech Dubai 2015 International Conference.
Aftab Hussain, the 1st prize winner of Falling Walls at KAUST.
As suggested by Prof. James Calvin, we will modify the proposal of Graduate Student Conference based on the coming survey results.
We are going to create an updated list/web-page of faculty and their research projects to help new master students in choosing thesis advisors.