Bartlett Fund for Critical Challenges Research Initiative
The Bartlett Fund for Critical Challenges is an endowed fund to encourage research and other projects that address critical challenges in Egypt and, more generally, the Middle East. The fund is perpetual, intended to develop creative responses to challenges that are of significance for the future of Egypt and the region. The fund provides support opportunities to the AUC community for creatively developing innovative solutions for these critical challenges.
An annual call for proposals is made in the spring semester.
Past Awardees
Academic Year 2025 - 2026
Nabil Mohareb
AI-Enabled Participatory Urban Documentation and Undergraduate Research: Mapping Living Heritage in Downtown Cairo Corridors
Department of Architecture
Khaled Nassar
AI-Optimized Urban Layouts for Sustainable Upgrading and Revitalization of Egypt's Unplanned Slum Settlements
Department of Construction
Mayyada Elsayed
Towards Safe Industrialization and Green Production: Developing Composites for Carbon Dioxide Capture Using AI tools and Circular Economy Approaches
Department of Biological, Chemical and Global Health Sciences
Academic Year 2024 - 2025
Mohamed Orabi
Biomass-Derived Conducting Nanocomposites: A Sustainable Strategy for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding in Smart Cities
Department of Physics
Yehea Ismail
A Capacitive Biochip for Real-Time Cancer Cell Imaging and AI-Powered Diagnosis
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Hassan Azzazy
Developing a Novel Algorithm for Improving Differential Diagnosis of Acute Febrile Illnesses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Department of Chemistry
Academic Year 2022 - 2023
Essam Shaban
Optimization of an Air Gap Membrane Distillation Brine Management System using IoT and Data Analytics
Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology
Sherif Goubran
The 2050 Education for Sustainable Development Campus: Envisioning the futures of learning spaces and curricula for AUC and Egypt
Department of Architecture
Walid Fouad
Optimizing Phosphorus Fertilization Using Rock Phosphate and Phosphate-Solubilizing Microorganisms (PSMs)
Department of Biology
Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Mohamed Salama
Exposome-wide Association Study of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) in an Egyptian Cohort
Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology
Hania Sholkamy
Operationalizing Gender Policies for Impact
Social Research Centre
Academic Year 2020 - 2021
Anwar Abdelnasser
Environmental Levels, Exposure, and Removal of Agrochemicals in Egyptian Waters
Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology
Mohamed ElMorsi
Surviving Cancer to Die of Heart Disease? Predicting When Stopping this Killer Disease Will Stop Hearts
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Academic year 2019 - 2020
Asma Amleh
Stopping Ovarian Cancer in Its Tracks - A Fast and Effective Detection Test
Department of Biology
Ossama Hosny
Environmental Levels, Exposure and Removal of Agrochemicals in Egyptian Waters
Department of Construction
Rasha Allam
Restructuring the Public Broadcasting System in Egypt
Journalism and Mass Communication