helping to strengthen ties with the local community and to provide reliable information. The Opinion Polls and Survey Studies Center, the Continuing Education Center (CEC) and the Measurement and Evaluation Center (MEC) were also established. 2004: Faculty of Optometry and the Faculty of Nursing established. 2005: Established Al-Qasem Palace in Beit Wazan to serve as a Center for Urban and Regional Planning. Established the Faculty of Honors and a Unit for Architectural Conservation and Reconstruction. Launched the An-Najah Award for Scientific Research in the field of science and humanities. Established two scientific masters programs: Animal Husbandry and Clean Energy and Consumption Rationalization. 2006: Institute of Forensic Medicine was established as a branch of the Faculty of Medicine. An-Najah Alumni Association was established His Excellency, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority inaugurated the university's new campus. President Abbas was presented with an Honorary Doctorate in Law. Awarded the Hisham Adib Hijjawi Award in Energy and Industry for the ninth time. 2007: The university inaugurated the following: Languages Center. Computer Lab for the Visually-Impaired. Dental Clinic. Prosthetics Clinic on the Old Campus. Korean-Palestinian IT Institute of Excellence Eye Clinic of the Faculty of Optometry. 2008: Faculty of Medicine was accredited as an independent faculty by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Acquired the hospitals of Al-Zakat Committee in Nablus. The hospital buildings will be developed into a teaching hospital for students of medicine and nursing; the hospital will serve the entire northern West Bank region in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Mosque inaugurated in August 2008. Sports Complex inaugurated at the new campus in November 2008. Student body Most of the students are Palestinian, but there are also students and professors from all over the world. Languages spoken on campus include Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and Spanish. Faculty The university president is Professor Dr. Rami Hamdallah. The vice-president for academic affairs is Professor Dr. Maher Natsheh and the vice-president for administration affairs is Dr. Shaker AlBitar. Ansam Sawalha, who is the dean of the faculty of pharmacy, is the first Palestinian woman named to the Women in Science Hall of Fame in 2011. Sawalha was honored for her achievement of establishing the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in the Palestinian Territories in 2006. Political conflicts regarding faculty In 2010 six members of the faculty including Ghassan Khaled were arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces