Muscat: A group of academics and students from Sultan Qaboos University won the National Prize for Scientific Research, fourth edition. The results were announced by the Research Council within the activities of the 4th annual forum for researchers .
The first category prize allocated for the best published research for PhD holders went to four academics who are Dr. Said bin Mubarak Al Mahrami from the college of economics and political sciences; Dr. Mohammed bin Manie Bait Suailem from Electrical Engineering and Computer Department; Dr. Mahad bin Said Ba’aween from Civil and Architectural Engineering Department and Dr. Ahmed Hasan Mohamed from the Department of Psychology at the College of Education. The second category prize on the best research published for other than PhD holders went to Dr. Mahmoud Ali Al Kindi from the Department of Psychology at the College of Education. Regarding student research in the field of culture and social sciences, the prize went to a team of students led by Hatem bin Humaid Al Shuaili from the College of Education.