Sultan Qaboos University has once again achieved remarkable success at the 2025 Oman Sustainability Week Awards, winning a silver award and securing the title of top-performing academic institution in the Sultanate of Oman for the second consecutive year. The Oman Sustainability Week Awards, co-organised by be’ah and CONNECT, took place on 11 May 2025 at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre, as part of Oman Sustainability Week, overseen by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals.&nbs...

he delegation, headed by His Highness Sayyid Dr. Fahd bin Al Julanda Al Said, the Vice-Chancellor, concluded the strategic visit to the Russian Federation that lasted several days, which aimed to enhance international cooperation and expand academic and scientific partnerships with Russian universities and higher education institutions.During the visit, the University signed cooperation programmes with the Higher School of Economics and the Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), and fos...

Sultan Qaboos University has signed a cooperation programme with Kazan Federal University as part of an official visit to the Russian Federation, led by His Highness Sayyid Dr. Fahd bin Al Julanda Al Said, the Vice-Chancellor. The visit, which continues until 30 May, includes Her Highness Sayyida Dr. Muna bint Fahd Al Said, Assistant Vice-Chancellor for International Cooperation, along with the Deans of the Colleges of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, and Medicine and Health Sciences, as well a...

This deceptively simple question leads to some serious mathematical problems, including one of the biggest pieces of news in mathematics from the last ten years.Imagine a floor or wall covering a very large area. As mathematicians work in unreal ideals rather than concrete physicalities, let us assume the area is infinite. How would we cover this infinite area with tiles all of the same shape, and what shape would they be?The simplest answer coming to most people's minds would be the shape o...