Wednesday, November 13, 2013 marked an important day for the scientific faculties as well as the literary faculties. We were honored to host Dr. Martin Bergfelder, the head of the Scientific Department at the German Embassy, to explore and deliberate the possible collaboration methods between MSA and Germany.

Sunday, November 17, 2013 marked the launch of Sharing Experience by the Faculty of Management Sciences; the programme is administrated by Engineer Ahmed El Essawy, Business Development Director at SPEED Group (P&G - Marai) Partner, Dr. Mohamed Khattab, General Manager of SIGMA Pharmaceutical Group and Engineer Amr Ghazaly, General Manager of Juhayna.

Sports and Social Department honoured the winning teams at the end of Sports Activities season by handing trophies and medals to the University's Tournament winners which lasted for almost three months, in participation of 40 Football teams besides other sports activities.

MSAMUN was given rebirth in 2011 to provide a platform for undergraduate students to develop their interpersonal, research, and communication skills. Since 2011 MSAMUN has organized four rounds of conferences and preparing for the 5th MSAMUN 2015 Conference. With each conference MSAMUN has witnessed various forms of growth and expansion for MSAMUN as an organization.

October University for Modern Sciences and Arts headed by the Board of Trustees Professor Dr Nawal El Degwi and accompanied by Professor Dr Khairy Abdel Hamid, MSA President and faculty members hosted the renowned actor Mohamed Sobhy as he attended the rehearsal of the most recent play by MSA students titled “Tell a Friend”, as they all pitched in to promote Egyptian Tourism by inviting all countries of the world to visit Egypt.

As part of MSA University’s vision, it is crucial that our staff be of the highest calibre and abilities. We ensure this through our constant unique development programs that are offered to our academic staff.

Last Monday January 12, 2013, MSA organized one of the most successful events of Graduation projects presentations of Advertising and PR discipline. Panelists from J.W.T. Advertising agency, one of the strongest advertising agencies in Egypt were invited to judge the graduating students' projects of that major which were supervised by Dr.Sherine Moody.

The Faculty of Management and Dr. Omnia Zaazou were delighted to host the first exhibit and conference of the projects created for Advertising and Media Campaign (MKT402). The exhibit comprised presentations for the projects submitted by the students and were evaluated by guest judges; Mr. Hazem Derae (Chairman of Look Advertising and the Egyptian Advertising Association; nicknamed The Guru of Egyptian Advertising), Mr. Ahmed Zidan (Deputy general manager of El Ahram Marketing and Advertising Centre; Winner of the Best Global Director Award) and Mr. Ahmed El Shenawy (CEO of Adventure Advertising, partners of Tarek Nour; nicknamed The King of Outdoors).

In a thrilling celebration, Dr Nawal El Degwi accompanied by Dr Khairy Abdel Hamid, were pleased to honour a group of the most distinguished students of the Faculty of Management Sciences, for their successful contribution in Stock Market and Bourse Simulation which was meticulously organized by 200 students supervised by expertise of faculty members.

Faculty of Management Sciences is proud to host a group of senior students under the supervision of Prof. Doaa Abdou, Economics Department, published a chapter 12 in the International Handbook of Research on Developing Sustainable Value in Economics, Finance, and Marketing.

MSAian awarded 1st place in international contest

Faculty of Management Sciences of Modern Sciences and Arts University selected the talented Mirna Mohamed Shehab of accounting discipline to represent Egypt in a contest for best accountants of "Taxation System", among worldwide universities.

MSA joins the exclusive list of international qualifications accepted by Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC)..

"EPSF" is the Egyptian pharmaceutical students" federation and it represents Egypt in the International Federation which represents more than 24,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in 15 schools of pharmacy.

MSA new Bio-Equivalency Center has been licensed by the Egyptian Ministry Of Health to be the first private university in Egypt to acquire it. MSA Bio-Equivalency Center ranks as the 12th fully functional center of its kind around Egypt.

Congratulations, MSA is extremely proud to be the first private university in Egypt to establish the nationally recognized licensed Bio-equivalence Center in Egypt. Not only it is run and administered by a team of highly skilled scientists and staff from the Faculty of Pharmacy; but also by highly acknowledged, and well known consultants of different nationalities. The BE center is based on many years of academic experience and an immense understanding of Quality System which has been internationally acknowledged.

On the 24th of this very month, MSA University's faculty of Pharmacy organized a farewell gathering for their seniors. It was a fun day where students wore the same funny t-shirts and spent a good time with fellow colleagues and staff members. This exciting event was organized by students Engy Ahmed Wafik, Hayam Abdelbasset, Nashwa Ashraf, Ahmed Abdel Nabi, Mohammed Ali, Ahmed El Badry and Amr Monier.

MSA Sports and Social Administration organized a Boxing Championship in the Roman Theater where a huge number of students participated and a lot others attended it.

On Monday 3rd Dec Faculty of Dentistry held a seminar "Tissue regeneration & Stem cells" Organized By Dr. Faten Kamel

A group of 18 exceptional senior pharmacy students, headed by Dr. Hisham Salem, the Vice Dean of Pharmacy, represented MSA University in the ‘Pharmaceutical Science & Green Chemistry in Turkey’. The conference targeted new methods of analysis for new drugs. Our students gave 9 presentations about their new analytical methods findings in various pharmaceutical fields.

MSA's Clinical Pharmacy, Department of the Faculty of Pharmacy, hosted the first Scientific 'Clinical Pharmacy' conference which was attended by an enormous number of renowned professors in the fields of Medical and Clinical pharmacy and delivered several lectures about the importance of Clinical Pharmacy and its fields of application in Egypt. Dr Nawal El Degwi the Head of the Board of Trustees as well as Professor Dr. Khairy Abdel Hamid, Professor Dr. Seif El Din Ashour - Dean of Pharmacy Faculty, Dr Manal Al Hamamsy - Vice President of Clinical Pharmacy Department and conference moderator welcomed all the attendees.

Faculty of Pharmacy graduates, Nehal Aasem , Hadeel Mohamed and Abd El-Fattah Sobhy submitted their graduation project titled (Pharmacological Intervention of Chemically Induced Depression in Rats), for poster award competition at The 3rd International Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Natural Products. The project was carried out under the supervision of Dr. Mona EL. Naa and A.L. Ahmed Refaat. After judgment was done by a board of jury on the clarity of poster, overall responses to the questions of the judges and the completeness of work, the poster was announced to have won THE BEST POSTER PRESENTATION. The conference was held on 4-6 January 2014 at the National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt. The purpose of the conference was to promote discussion and interaction among academics and researchers in the field of natural products.

Egypt on Two Wheels Driven by Mass Com Adventurer Galal Z. Chatila

Due to our staff’s relentless determination to support and develop students, eight students from the Faculty of Pharmacy were nominated to attend a workshop on “Intellectual Communication” in DAAD premises, in what marked the first official cooperation between DAAD and MSA.

The faculty of Pharmacy, MSA University arranged an educational visit for 68 students, supervised by Dr. Gina El-Feky, Head of the Pharmaceutics Department and Dr. Haidy Atef, the Industrial Pharmacy module leader on the 20th of October, 2014 to EIPICO; one of the leading pharmaceutical manufacturers in Egypt. EIPICO produces more than 370 different products.

October University for Modern Sciences and Arts took the initiative to host this conference where researchers discussed the latest and the most advanced researches in the field of biotechnology where (MSA)is considered the only and sole university to have biotechnology among its faculties either in Egypt or in the Arab world universities. (MSA) grants its graduates a degree in biotechnology equivalent to the same degree granted to graduates of Greenwich University in the United Kingdom.

MSA University has witnessed the first international conference for the biotechnology applications in which three hundred and fifty scientists and researchers have shown up from all over the world. Scientists and researchers have presented the latest researches concerning the biotechnology field.

The 2nd International Conference for the applications of bio-technology (ICAB) 2009 attended by 350 scientists and researchers from all over the world was held for two days at October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) where they presented and discussed the latest and most advanced researches in that respect.

MSA University is proud to announce that its excelling Biotechnology students Cherine Amr and Fatma El Zahraa Salama were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Medical Sciences at the Asian Science Camp which was held in Daejon, Korea from the 7th to the 13th of August 2011. Their project was a great piece of work under the title “Targeting a specific receptor in the brain tumor to facilitate the passage of the drug through the blood brain barrier.” Our very own Cherine and Fatma were thrilled to attend the camp and felt lucky to be able to meet several Nobel laureates and even attend their lectures.

Academic Field Trips are usually very informative, packed with hands on experiences where students can practically and on site apply the theoretical information they got in class. Field trips are always fun and enjoyable as a social gathering and scientifically enhance and stress the educational information.

Mirna Khater, assistant lecturer at MSA's faculty of Biotechnology, traveled to the United Kingdom to attend her MSc Graduation Ceremony at Rochester Cathedral, University of Greenwich, UK on the 26th July 2012.

MSA Faculty of Biotechnology planned to open the graduation projects which totaled 24 projects for discussion, on February 4, 2013. The best projected one was using the stem cells to treat the major chronic diseases. That project was presented by Shorouk El Tokhy. Another project dealt with the effect of toxics on the liver functions which was presented by Seham Gawdat.

For the second time in a row, Biotechnology students were privileged to get an accommodation at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute for training (AGERI), during their midterm break.

On Wednesday, February 27, the students had an educational field trip to visit one of the largest Egyptian food-producing companies, EGC. There, they had the exciting opportunity to observe the steps to the live production of V-cut chips, DAMAS chocolates and Nobi biscuits, acquiring feedback on the problems facing these factories which could then be solved by biotechnological means.

The Second Biotechnology Symposium in Faculty of Science, CairoUniversity was held on Saturday, 16th of March. The Symposium includedstudents from Biotechnology from four different universitiesincluding; MSA, GUC, Cairo University, and MUST.

The Faculty of Biotechnology was honoured to host Dr Leonela Silva Jimenez who currently works with Columbia University, to enrich students with her lecture and enormous knowledge about healthy methods of nutrition.

As part of the continued efforts of the MSA faculties to provide unique learning experiences to its students, third year students of the Faculty of Biotechnology have had the distinctive opportunity to visit the Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) to tour the valuable institute and to see how the Gene Gun works. The Gene Gun is the device and bombardment technique used for gene insertion and transformation in crops.

The Faculty of Biotechnology honours Dr Abd- El Monem El Bna ( The head of Agricultural Research Center) for his visible input that truly left a wondrous sign in the Agricultural field in Egypt and his fantastic co-operation with the MSA University during the last few years:

Earlier this week, the Faculty of Biotechnology held its graduation project discussions in the attendance of almost 20 external examiners that were hosted by MSA to review and discuss the students’ graduation projects. After the discussions were over, Cell Safe Cord Blood Bank surprised everyone with the amazing news that 4 students have been chosen to join the company and will start working there after a SIX-MONTH TRAINING IN SWITZERLAND. Cell Safe Cord Blood Bank is a global stem cell bank with cutting edge technology and research facilities.

Aicha Massrali, the assistant lecturer at faculty of Biotechnology, has traveled to the United Kingdom to attend her Msc Graduation Ceremony at Rochester Cathedral, University of Greenwich, UK on 26th July 2013.

Success Story for MSA Student Exchange Programme since 2004".

On receiving the permission from the head of the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Prof .Osama Momtaz and the vice Prof. Shereen Asam, on November 18th, 2013 students of biotechnology and mainly Molecular Genetics students hit their visit to the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute with the Lecture assistant Amgad Rady. ".

The biotechnology students were privileged enough to get a chance to train at the 57357 hospital, "The Children Cancer Hospital".

For the second time in a row, Biotechnology students were privileged to get an accommodation at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute for training (AGERI), during their midterm break.

On Monday, 24th of February, a group of students from Faculty of Biotechnology had an academic field trip to a dairy products factory and a training centre in the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, as a part of the industrial project course. The students experienced two different types of processing milk products, manually and mechanically.

Students of Industrial Project in the Faculty of Biotechnology were given the opportunity on the 3rd of March, to visit the Regional Center for Food and Feed..

Saleh Naggar Ahmed was awarded first place for his project in the "Symposium of Unique life (SOUL) 2014" which was held on Saturday, the 22nd of March. SOUL is under the patronage of the National Research center (NRC) and the Ministry of youth affairs which is part of the "Centre of Civic Education" , at El Zamalek. Saleh presented "Pretreatment of Agriculture Waste for production of Solid Fuel". He competed against several student such as Zuwail University, MUST University , Cairo University, Ain Shams university and many others.

An MSAian grabs Gold Medal at the 12th African Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in South Africa.

When October University for Modern Sciences and Arts organized yet another successful science fair, MSA picked the three of the best young inventors from schools across the country to represent Egypt at the I-SWEEEP International Olympiad in Houston Texas, USA.

Students Exchange Programme through British Degree Validation From Greenwich University to MSA Graduates More than 70 students traveled this academic year 2013/2014 to University of Greenwich as part of our student exchange programme to attend workshops in various disciplines besides attending summer classes. That trip includes several visits to touristic attractions which are very famous in UK to be acquainted to the British cultural background and its customs and habits.

An MSAian Awarded First Class Honours in Biotech MSc

         UK Study Abroad Programme Summer 2014

11 Years of continuous Success

In a grand and thrilling Newcomers Orientation celebration at MSA University’s Opera Hall, the Orientation day for new comers, Prof. Dr Nawal EL Degwi. Head of the Board of Trustees received MSA students who attended the UK Study Abroad Programme Summer 2014 in our collaborative partner University of Greenwich, to grant them their UK Study Abroad Programme Certificates & Best Achievers Trophies.

To All MSAians Please be advised that you have access to one of the largest online resources: EBSCOHOST What is EBSCOhost® EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet or direct connection. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, school, medical, corporate, and government libraries. How to access?

Egyptian Centre for Research and Security Studies hosted 20 students from MSAU Faculty of Biotechnology for the purpose of attending the DNA forensics training.

Modern Science and Arts University's graduation ceremony this year combined glare and glory as graduates will be receiving a Greenwich degree alongside the Egyptian one. MSA Graduates had undoubtedly taken a leap and had an edge over their peers' counterparts. MSAU graduates included Faculty of Dental & Oral Hygiene, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Biotechnology, Faculty of Management Sciences, Faculty of Mass Com, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Faculty of Languages. Thousand of parents witnessed the ceremony where Professor Dr Nawal El Degwi Head of Board of Trustees and Professor Dr Khairy Abdel Hamid MSAU President welcomed them, who in turn expressed their gratitude and commended the cherished care of their sons and daughters which prepared them to the challenge of the ever changing and demanding job market. Outstanding graduates received fifteen free scholarships to study Masters Degree in United Kingdom's Universities.

TA Rima Mohamed Akram Akid got her Master Degree in Biotechnology from Manchester University in UK.

Students of the faculty of Communications & Electronics Engineering participated and submitted Grad 1 and Grad 2 projects in the 2015 Graduation Projects. The projects contained a wide range of innoavtive ideas in different areas in communications, electronics and digtial.

Sunday 28th June marked five more years of validation by our British partner University of Greenwich for the faculty of Engineering. Validation is a process whereby university programmes would be evaluated by a panel, which is constituted to be both informed and impartial in order to assure the Academic Board that the university's commitment to quality and standards are met.

A special day for The Faculty of Arts & Design as MSA celebrates the first class of graduates at one of the newest colleges in the university. Forty Six students across four departments participated and submitted their graduation projects in the 2015 Graduation Projects Exhibition. The projects contained a wide range of creative ideas in different areas such as advertising campaigns, films & animation, short films, various designs and more.

Dar El Tarbia American and British Schools Graduation Ceremony 2015 was held at MSA Campus on Wednesday June the 17th and the motto of the ceremony was ‘’Together we can make a difference’’. Mama Nawal, Mrs. Mona, Mrs. Fatma and staff shared with pride the accomplishments of the students manifested in the numerous awards they have won throughout the years of participation in International Science Fairs in cooperation with MSA University. 

Graduating students of the Faculty of Biotechnology always bring charm and pride to our campus! They have presented their projects, amazed the audience as well as the science community both nationally and internationally.

The International Society of Public Relations Signs a Protocol with Faculty of MassCom. The Role of Public Relations to Promote MSA Among Internal and External Students.

All four departments of Faculty of Engineering collaborated to execute their annual graduation 250 projects which showed talent and a cutting edge of the choicest innovations. Talent combined with unmatchable skills forged deliberately by their faculty members who were tirelessly cherished and gave all students, hands on experience, which enabled them to innovate, create and execute their projects successfully.

MSA University was honored to host the renowned Prof. Nader Chalfoun, who willingly shared and discussed with us his valuable experience and wisdom regarding the “Performance Architecture: A critical approach to sustainable green building design”.

Met materials 2015, will comprise a 4 day (7:10 September 2015), Oxford University. UK. Faculty of Engineering is proud to congratulate Ahmed Fawzy Daw for his new novel research paper titled "NEW INDUCTOR LOADED COMPOSITE RIGHT LEFT HAND IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMER FOR UWB WIRELESS APPLICATIONS", which will be presented in the largest worldwide congress in the field of Microwave and meta materials hosted and organized by OXFORD UNIVERSITY, UK.

Industrial Projects Course in the Faculty of Biotechnology is unique and exquisite course for three students of level three in particular, which opens their eyes to the various fields of Biotechnology. 

Heartily Congratulations form MSA University, wishing you great success in your future MGT Seniors 2015

A team of MSA students and staff collaborate with LeBalanda to arrange a Fun Day for their students in Mansheyet Naser in Collaboration with MSA University.

Headed by Dr Doaa Abdou, students from pharmacy and management join Cosmos Little Egypt, which is a village encompassing replicas of the country’s major tourist attractions, from Qaitbey Citadel in Alexandria, passing through Giza’s Pyramids and Sphinx, the Delta, Egypt’s waterways, the Red Sea mountains, and reaching the Luxor Temple in the south.

MSA University joined Splash of Hope Activity to draw nice characters on the walls of Abu EL-Reesh Hospital. We hope that we can put a smile on the children's face and make the hospital environment a warmer, friendlier place. 

MSA Sports and Social Administration headed by Dr Salah Abdel Hady and in collaboration of the Students’ Union, organised a trip to Luxor and Aswan where 43 MSA students participated. The trip activities programme included visits of several attractive sites and a variety of recreational input.

MSA Architecture Department of Faculty of Engineering organised a conference and a workshop titled “The Urban Architectural Complexity of The Heritage Areas” and the endeavours to save it from mixed modernization. Professor/ Dr Nawal El Degwi Head of the Board of Trustees, stated that the main prospective of this conference was to raise awareness of protecting the Heritage Areas from the over whelming modern constructions that prevailed these areas haphazardly and smeared the Historic Heritage of Old Cairo.

“Freedom of Speech means nothing when it comes within Ethical Deterioration. Youngsters should participate in serving the community”

These meaningful words were the beginning of Mohamed Sobhi the famous actor in his speech which her delivered at the meeting hosted by Professor/ Dr Nawal El Degwi, MSA Head of the Board of Trustees to announce the initiative taken by the actor to contribute to the social and humanitarian projects carried out by “Lebaladna Social Foundation”.

Professor Dr. Ayman Diab "Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology", and Professor Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud "The Director of the Horticultural Research Institute" signed a Partnership and Collaborative Agreement contract . The benefits of it would aid the exchange of experiences between the Faculty and the Institute while training the students in various fields with extensive laboratory work every year. 

In the fully-packed Hall of the SSB, students, parents, along with the judging jury, intently paid attention to the graduation projects presented by our remarkable graduating Biotechnology students.

The projects were expertly presented and engaged crucial topics and problems. The students focused on solutions that can be implemented in real-life applications in Egypt to effectively alter the quality of life of Egyptians across several demographics in the medical, industrial and commercial fields.