WDRC hosted its 7th Annual CIAP Meeting on November 9-10, 2016. A total of 33 delegates representing 17 companies, government and intergovernmental agencies, and the Islamic Development Bank attended the meeting.

Amber Siddiqui successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation.

WDRC congratulates its 17th Ph.D. graduate.

Yasmeen Najm attended the 1st International Conference on Bioresource Technology for Bioenergy, Bioproducts & Environmental Sustainability in Sitges, Spain on October 23-26, 2016 where she won an Outstanding Poster Award.

Prof. Kim Choon Ng and Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour visited CIEMAT Center in Spain.

The first, worldwide adsorption water desalination and cooling plant has been successfully implemented by King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST).

Best oral presentation at IWA Microbial Ecology in Water Engineering and Biofilms Joint Specialist Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

​Congratulations to Dr. Hari Ananda Rao for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation.

Prof. Johannes Vrouwenvelder has been appointed full time Professor of Environmental Science and Technology at WDRC, KAUST.

WDRC Research Scientist, Dr. Chun-Hai Wei​​, was awarded for his paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology ​2016 IC EST in ​Houston, Texas. ​

PERSGA, the Regional Organization for Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, invited 5 faculty members from the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE) at KAUST to give specific lectures in the 3-day regional workshop.

Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour organized a field trip in his course Water Desalination Technologies (EnSE325). Assisted by Mr. Khaled Bin Bandar, one of the course attendees and a Ph.D. student at the WDRC-KAUST, a technical visit was organized to the Al-Shuaiba multi stage flash (MSF) desalination plant under the Saline Water Conversation Corporations (SWCC).

New studies carry potential for creating much more efficient water desalination systems in the Gulf.

WDRC faculty were part of Sci-Café titled: “New Water Innovations"

​​​​Prof. Peng Wang, from WDRC, is the editor and contributor of "Smart Materials for Advanced Environmental Applications"​ book.

During February 14-17, 2016 WDRC organized an International Conference on Physics & Chemistries at Hydrophobic Interfaces.

H.E. Eng. Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli, Minister of Agriculture, visits KAUST and takes a tour through WDRC labs.​​

Best oral presentation at the 8th International Desalination Workshop (IDW) 2015, Jeju, South Korea.

WDRC held its 6th CIAP Meeting on November 10-12, 2015. More than 40 participants participated in this three-day event at KAUST.

​WDRC student, Joline El Chakhtoura won the runner-up prize at the Falling Walls Challenge​ in Berlin.