The 8th Saudi student conference concluded Sunday night. The conference was held under the aegis of Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom Prince Mohammad bin Nawaf. The event was organized by the general assembly of the Saudi Society of Students in the UK and directly supervised by the Saudi Cultural Section in London.

At the closing ceremony, prizes were awarded to four students who won from among 900 Saudi students and researchers studying in the UK.

President of the King Abdullah University Jan Lou Shamo presented the winners with certificates and prizes.

The first prize was jointly won by Tareq Abu Libdeh, specializing in chemistry from the University of Leicester who presented a paper on “Development of plastic and bio-plastics” and Abdullah Al Harbi, specialist in organizational behavior and human resource management from the University of Hull, who presented a paper on the impact of interaction of resistance to change.”

Sarah Subaie from the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London won the third prize for her paper “embryonic stem cells capabilities backed by three-dimensional micro-ecological environment;" while Mannar Samaan from Leeds University’s Institute of Cancer won fourth prize for her paper on oral cancer.

Following the prize giving ceremony, there were different sessions in the fields of science and humanities.