Students and Faculty Housing at the University

– To provide adequate housing for employees – To provide eduquate housing for students The university housing services provides expat employees with housing choices that are comfortable and sufficient for their needs. The university also hosts the site of the Arabian Gulf University housing project within its premises. UoB provides [...]

University expenditure on arts and heritage in comparison to the overall university expenditure

– To increase awareness of the importance of heritage and art – To participate in the arts and heritage preservation movement at the kingdom of Bahrain The University of Bahrain allocates an annual fund to support Art and Heritage initiatives at the University of Bahrain and in Bahrain.

The College of IT and College of Engineering Senior Projects Exhibition

– To showcase students’ work in the fields of Engineering and IT – To fitch job opportunities for students – To disseminate innovative ideas to the society The College of Engineering and College of IT senior projects exhibition is an event repeated every semester to showcase the students work in [...]

Open Access of University of Bahrain Library Services

The Library’s mission is to support the university’s educational and research programs, to empower students with information literacy skills and to serve the local community through the services provided by its Central Library, a number of specialized branch libraries, and its digital library portal. The library catalogue provides a list [...]

Smart cities improve the quality of life and increase the added value of production processes.

To raise awareness about the prospects of Smart Cities, as a platform to exchange ideas. Emphasizing the role of universities in the region in promoting Smart Cities, Consultancy, Smarter Ideas, Continuity in the form of publications and creating innovative solutions. This University of Bahrain Smart Cities Event is organized in [...]

The University of Bahrain celebrates the announcement of the winners of the first Traffic University of Bahrain Competition

The competition aims, in its first edition, to encourage university students to employ creativity and thought, by finding ways to enhance the traffic safety culture and achieving the goals of the General Traffic Department. The competition focuses on reducing accidents, raising traffic awareness, and the smooth flow of traffic in [...]

A Study Calls for Redefining Engineering Education to Achieve the Fourth Industrial Revolution Objectives

– Achieving the objectives of the 4th industrial revolution in Bahrain – Discussing with the local authorities infrastructure and planning developments. In the paper he co-authored with Dr. Mark Hodgkinson, Bapco’s Quality Assurance Manager and the Operational Excellence, Dr. Bin Shams described the journey of Bapco towards achieving the objectives [...]

UoB Discusses Development of Transport, Health, and Quality of Life in Smart Cities

The Hackathon focused on: – Alternative transport methods to vehicles that may reduce pollution and carbon emissions, as well as ease the daily traffic congestions. – Increasing the confidence of societal institutions at the research production level, in particular applied researches in relation to transportation. – Setting up targets for [...]

Students of the College of Science at the University of Bahrain replace plastic bottles with pottery ones

– The idea of the competition is to push students to take advantage of their surroundings and invent new ideas that prepare them for self-reliance, and establishes marketing ideas that serve them in the future. – The competition stresses the role of faculty of science in supervising and guiding students, [...]

Two buildings at the University of Bahrain are to replace Underutilized Carpark Spaces

The University of Bahrain built the Bahrain Centre for Historical Studies on a brownfield and is planning to build two new building on underutilized car parking areas. The new buildings which will house the Deanship of Students’ Affairs and a new general academic building are designed according to the highest [...]

The University of Bahrain priorities pedestrian access on campus

– To encourage walkability in the campus – To reduce the dependency on cars – To protect the environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by limiting the use of cars – To improve the health and wellbeing of faculty, staff and students through encouraging walkability and movement The University of [...]

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and University of Bahrain Sign an Agreement to Support Youth in Education

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the University of Bahrain (UoB) signed a memorandum of understanding on 20 May 2019 to provide strategic support to youth in education. Through this agreement, the University joined the International Youth and Education Alliance.