The President of Alexandria University Dr. Essam El Kurdi opened the Electronic Microscope Unit in the Faculty of Science on Sunday 25/2/2018. Dr. Kurdi opened the unit after upgrading and adding the new microscope JEOL 1400 Plus with a cost of 7 million EGP that considered a unique device in the university and will serve medical, agriculture and industrial fields in addition to energy and nano-technology.

Dr. Essam declared that the university is preparing a plan for a new building in the Faculty of Science similar to the building of the Faculty of Engineering with a cost of 450 million EGP. He also emphasized on calling the civil society organization and industrial companies to cooperate with the university to finance the new building.

The dean Dr. Alaa Ramadan stated that the new device has high image amplification efficiency up to 1.2 million times for diseases diagnosis, quality assurance, industry defects, water purification and other fields.

Dr. Azza Shehata; the executive director of the unit declared that the unit will serve the researchers from all the Egyptian universities through intensive training courses in addition to specialized courses for technicians.

 The event was attended by Dr. Hisham Gaber the university vice president for Education and Students Affairs, Dr. Mohamed Ismail the university vice president for Matroh branch and Dr. Mokhtar Yousef the university vice president for Graduate Studies and Research in addition to faculty members and representatives from industrial companies.