Israa’ Baker, a dental student, places third in the Youth Exceptional Speakers (YES) Symposium for the year 2022 that was held as part of Makkah International Dental Conference and Exhibition at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, Saudi Arabia at the end of October. She was among the six winners of the first round of 26 competitors from different Arab countries.

We are happy to announce the release of the 1st volume of  Al-Quds Journal for Academic Research – Social Sciences Issue

Enjoy the read: https://aquja.alquds.edu/index.php/arts

We are happy to announce the release of the 3rd volume of PalStudent Journal. This volume was dedicated to the proceedings of the 4th Undergraduate Research Conference. It has extended abstracts for 63 research papers in 13 disciplines and one more section for Schools Research.

Enjoy the read:

https://research.alquds.edu/en/publications/palstudent-scientific-research-journal/vol-3-no-1.html

Four Palestinian researchers from Al-Quds University, and members of 500 Women Scientists — wrote in Nature Correspondence to call attention to the continuing plight of women trying to do research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the struggles involved with affording essential equipment, commuting to the lab through multiple checkpoints, and global barriers to publishing research. In addition, the 500 Women Scientists, heard directly from the four AQU researchers about what it means to conduct science under occupation. Read the interview series here: Dr. Elham Kateeb, Dr. Joman Natsheh, Dr. Yara Saifi and Dr. Maha Samman.

On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 500 Women Scientists “Meet the Scientist” blog series shared four interviews with Palestinian women scientists from Al-Quds University who shed light on what it means to conduct science under occupation & what gives them hope down-pointing triangle.

The Deanship of Scientific Research at Al-Quds University and Al-Quds Bard College invite current undergraduate students and recent graduates from Palestinian, regional, and international universities as well as high school students to submit their research abstracts to the 5th Undergraduate Research Conference that will take place at Al-Quds University in-person, and virtually via AQU Zoom platform on the month of May 2023.

Julich Institute and the Deanship of Scientific Research at Al-Quds University organized two course that aimed to build research capacity among PhD students and professional students, dental and medical. The first course was conducted in mid-September 2021 and trained students on scientific writing. The second course was conducted on October 25-26^th, 2021 and focused on scientific presentation. Both courses were given by German experts from Julich and other affiliated universities. These courses were supported by the Research Management project executed by Julich Institute and Al-Quds University and funded by the Palestinian German Science Bridge.

Leen Dweik and Raghad Fanoon from the Dental Student Research Club and Shahd Idees and Hadeel Manasrah from the Medical Student Research Club won the 1^st and the 3^rd awards in a national competition on September 27^th, 2021.

On May 30^th, 2021, the Deanship of Scientific Research organized a ceremony to celebrate the scientific research production at AQU in the academic year 2019-2020. In this day, certificate of appreciation and monetary prizes were given to the best articles in natural and social sciences, most active researcher in each college, best master thesis in each college, the most active research clusters in natural and social sciences, and researchers who published in Q1 and Q2 journals according to Scopus database. In addition, students’ researchers, and researchers in AQU Research affiliate program were honored for their significant participation in AQU research production.

JERUSALEM, Palestine: A May 2020 survey asked dentists located in the West Bank area about their preparedness to resume offering routine dental care after the practice closures that were necessitated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The researchers published a study in February this year which found that the challenges that emerged during the pandemic showed that dentistry needed to adapt in order to be better prepared for future crises.

A module on Global Oral Health was launched on Monday April 19^th  for Al-Quds dental students. Twenty AQU dental students out of 68 applicants were selected to be part of this global experience. AQU is one of twenty universities around the world who will be receiving this module.  The course is offered by the Charité University in Germany, in collaboration with the Deanship of Scientific Research at AQU and University of Glasgow.

This was achieved recently by:

Prof. Ziad Abdeen from AQU College of Medicine who was ranked among the top 2% of the world's researchers for outstanding research production in 2019, according to Stanford University statistics and the (Elsevier) global database. And prof. Mahmoud Abu Samara from the College of Education, who was ranked among the top 100 researchers cited the most  for the year 2020 in the Arab Citation and Impact Factor (ARCIF), the most comprehensive citation database for Arabic peer-reviewed journals.