Asha Manoharan was awarded the Queen Effat Citizenship Award (QECA) by Princess Loulwah Al-Faisal and University President Dr. Haifa Jamal Al-Lail at a ceremony last week. She is the first Indian to get this honor. Effat University awards the QECA annually to a student in recognition of her outstanding academic and personal merit. The winner is made the President of the Student Shoura, the legislative body of the Student Governance and also acts as the voice of the student body. Effat University is a private university for women founded by Queen Effat Al-Thunayan Al-Saud and run by the King Faisal Foundation. The university is a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) and boasts of partnerships with institutions of higher education such as the Duke University, USA and Mount Holyoke College, USA. Asha has been on the Dean's List for academic excellence twice and was the Second Runner-Up for the award last year. She has served in different capacities such as the Student Representative to the Council of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the General Secretary to the Learning Resources Standing Committee, the Founding President of the E&T Students' League, and the Editor of EThos – The E&T Newsletter.
