Coloring Outside the Lines with Dr. Rana Dajani
- Natalie Townsend
We Love Reading
Dr. Dajani’s Book – Five Scarves
Dr. Dajani’s Awards + Honors
· Jacob Klaus Social entrepreneurship Award 2018
· World Literacy Summit Award 2018
· UI Carver College of Medicine’s Distinguished Alumni Awards 2018
· UNHCR’s Protecting Urban Refugee Children Innovation Challenge Winner 2017
· Jordan Star of Science, Category Biology, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, World Science Forum 2017
· UNESCO King Sejong International Literacy Prize 2017
· We Love Reading: Refugee-led Reading Circle, Promising Practices in Refugee Education initiative 2017 Pearson, UNHCR and Save the Children 2017
· Runner up for the Core77 design awards for social impact 2017
· Aspen Ideas Festival 1 Scholar 2017
· Harvard Radcliff Fellowship Award 2017
· World HRD Congress Women Super Achiever Award 2017
· On the list of 500 most influential Muslims 2015, 2016, 2017
· Ranked in CEO Middle East magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2016, 2017
· The inaugural IIE Global Changemaker Award in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Fulbright 2016
· The Stars Award for Impact 2015
· The Arab Women Association Golden Award 2015
· Top Idea in the IDEO challenge 2015
· Honored by his Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan as a woman leader 2015
· Ranked 12 in CEO Middle East Magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2015
· Women in Science hall of fame, US Embassy Amman’s Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Office for the Middle East, 2015
· Ranked 13 in CEO Middle East magazine’s list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2014
· 50 Most Talented Social Innovators 2015 at the World CSR Congress
· Women in Science hall of fame 2015 US Embassy Amman’s Environment, Science, Technology and Health Office for the Middle East
· PEER Award 2014 for the project “The Three Circles of Alemat” NSF/USAID
· Order of Al Hussein for Distinguished Contributions of the Second Class. Granted to “those who have made distinguished contributions to society”
· Winner for the WISE Award 2014
· Eisenhower Fellowship Innovative Program 2014
· “We Love Reading” recognized by Center for Education Innovation, 2014
· Selected as one of the 100 most powerful Arabs in the World 2014 in the category “geniuses” by Arabian Business magazine
· Named one of the list of GOOD 2014
· “We Love Reading” recognized by UNESCO, 2014
· Named one of the most influential women scientist of the Islamic world 2014 by UK based Muslim Science Magazine
· Named Citizen of the Next Century List for 2013
· Library of congress Literacy Award for best practices for “We Love Reading,” 2013
· Fulbright Occasional Lecture Award Spring 2013
· Fulbright Research Scholarship first place, 2012-2013 Research at Yale University Stem cells and micro RNA
· Featured in the Innovation for education book by Charles Leadbeater, WISE Qatar Foundation, 2012
· Finalist for the “Women in Academia Network” for the Alumni Engagement Innovation fund by the State alumni, 2011
· Nominated by the Hashemite University for the “Women in Science” award offered by the Islamic Development Bank 2011
· Complimentary membership to the Clinton Global Initiative 2010
· Ahel el Hemmeh initiative, nominated for the award and got voted in the final 30 runner-ups for “We Love Reading”
· Awarded the 2009 Arab world social innovator award by Synergos for the project “We Love Reading”
· Nominated as one of Ahel Al- himmeh. An initiative by Queen Rania of Jordan to recognize individuals from the Jordan community who do volunteer work for the community and have made a difference
· The King Hussein Cancer Institute for cancer and biotechnology award 2009
· Fulbright Alumni Development Awards (ADA) 2008
· Fulbright Scholar 2000-2002
· Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral award – honorary mention 2001