A specialized medical team from the Pediatric Surgery Unit at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH) conducted the first surgery of its kind Oman. The surgery involved endoscopic transplantation of ureters from within the bladder of a one-year-old baby girl.The head of the medical team, Dr. Zainab Nasser Al Balushi, Senior Consultant in Pediatric Surgeon, Head of the Pediatric Surgery Unit and Deputy Director General of the SQUH for Medical Affairs, said that the girl was suffering from freque...

 Sultan Qaboos University has signed two cooperation agreements with Oman Environmental Services Holding Company (be'ah) to achieve sustainable development goals in line with Oman Vision 2040. The agreements were signed by H.H. Sayid Dr. Fahad Bin Al-Julanda Al Said, Vice Chancellor of Sultan Qaboos University, and Tariq bin Ali Al Amri, CEO of “be'ah”.The first agreement aims to establish a reuse center to benefit from consumed materials and their economic value by find...

A team of students from Sultan Qaboos University invented a technique by using graphene and polymer materials, as an alternative to silicon, to manufacture solar and photovoltaic cells. This method improves the efficiency of solar systems by up to 60 percent.The innovation was developed by students Aisha Al-Wahaibi, Mozn Al-Abrai, Al-Hasna Al-Adwani and Nusaiba Al-Kharousi from the College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University.The project aims to develop solar cells made of locally produced...

Among more than 100 competitors from various Arab countries, Ph.D. student Amira Al Gharibiya from Sultan Qaboos University won a second place in the third Kuwaiti and Arab Youth Forum competitions.Her scientific project was entitled "Improving the performance of the membrane distillation process for water desalination using carbon nanotubes derived from waste of the Omani Palm.” Amira is a Ph.D. student specializing in chemical engineering and transformational processes at the Colleg...