Qusay Hussein Al-Qutaish, a bachelor student in medicine from Yarmouk University, won the second place in the Scientific Research Award for Jordanian University Students in its twenty-first session for his research, "The Role of Jordanian Universities in Facing Intellectual Deviations among Young People". Likewise, Islam Abdullah Al-Kharnoubin and Sherine Majed Al-Nadi, students from the master program of Islamic education at Yarmouk University, won the fourth place for their research, "The Challenge of Social Globalization, its Effects on Youth, and Ways to Address it". This took place in an event organized by the Middle East Studies Center in cooperation with the University of Jordan, Yarmouk University, Philadelphia University, the University of Science and Technology, Zarqa University, and Hayat Education Fund.

The President of Yarmouk University, Prof. Zeidan Kafafi, expressed the university’s pride in the accomplishments of university students who have proven their scientific excellence in various competitions and scientific events at the local, regional, and international levels. He also stressed Yarmouk’s keenness to support its students and motivate them to benefit from the knowledge they acquire during their university career. He declared that one of the university's main purposes is to guide students in conducting scientific research that deals with issues and topics concerned with youth and the local community as a whole, and to motivate them to carry out applied scientific research that has effective role in finding solutions to the problems suffered by the Society.

The head of the Supreme Committee supervising the award and the head of the Center for Middle East Studies, Jawad Al-Hamad, announced during the press conference that the first and third awards were withheld because none of the competing students qualified for them according to the criteria and provisions stipulated in the award system. Then he pointed out that the twenty-first session of the award presented 19 research titles within the three usual frameworks: the local, the Arab-Islamic, and the international, and that the winning researches will be published in refereed journals.