The Association of Egyptian American Scholars announced a one time Scholarship Grant in the name of its late Past President Dr. Mohamed Badr El Din Ali. The value of the scholarship was Fifteen Thousand Egyptian Pounds to be awarded to an Egyptian Graduate Student enrolled in a Ph.D. Program at an Egyptian university or a research institution. The scholarship also required the candidate to complete the first or second term of the program by the end of June 2008.

The recipient of the Award was Wael Abdul Rahman Mohamed, PHD.

Candidate at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University for his research in Biomedical Engineering “Computer aided diagnosis of digital mammograms”