{"id":3087,"date":"2022-03-03T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:55","slug":"sea-event-emphasizes-sustainability-in-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/sea-event-emphasizes-sustainability-in-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"SEA event emphasizes sustainability in economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Hind Aldah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah\u2019s Student Economic Association hosted its first face-to-face conference in two years on Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event, which had only 13 attendees due to social distancing restrictions, took place at the School of Business Administration building. A registration form had to be submitted in order to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference featured keynote speaker Natalie Koch, a professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koch\u2019s presentation was titled \u201cRenewable Energy and the Future of Gulf Resource Economics,\u201d and she spoke about the importance of the UAE\u2019s efforts to push past an oil-fueled economy and instead opt for more sustainable options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said that \u201cwe need to build with sustainability in mind,\u201d emphasizing the idea that being green means being modern. \u201cThe idea is to provide for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khushboo Menghrajani, a junior economics student who was present at the event, said that she \u201cnever expected to learn so much\u201d and added that the conference was \u201cso informative and insightful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Menghrajani said that she was glad to attend events at SBA in-person again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hind Aldah UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah\u2019s Student Economic Association hosted its first face-to-face conference in two years on Monday.&nbsp; The event, which had only 13 attendees due to social distancing restrictions, took place at the School of Business Administration building. A registration form had to be submitted in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-3087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-sba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}