JERUSALEM | Al-Quds University is preparing to host a team of international experts from Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) in August, 2018, to hold an on campus intensive training workshop in academic and research writing. The university won the fellowship scholarship after competing for it in its seventh round. Funded by the Kuwait-based Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the fellowship program is the first of its kind at the national level and is managed by Taawon Foundation in partnership with the Bank of Palestine.

JERUSALEM – As a leading body in the field of scientific research and as part of its ongoing mission to provide a first class higher education, Al-Quds University hosted Nature Chemistry’s senior editor, Dr. Xin Su, who exclusively shared with academics, students, and researchers his experience as a scientific editor and the skills required to get scholarly research papers and articles published by global journals.

JERUSALEM | "On Saturday, April 21, 2018 Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Science (AQB), with the full support of Al-Quds University, hosted the “First Undergraduate Research Conference” to be organized in Palestine. The conference brought together Palestinian undergraduates from all over the country to present their excellent research works in a competitive environment.  

JERUSALEM | During a joint meeting organized by the Deanships of both Scientific Research and Students’ Affairs, Al- Quds University launched the "Undergraduate Scientific Research Clubs", as an endeavor to foster students' research skills. Students from various academic majors were invited to attend the informative session which aimed to promote scientific research and give students, who are considered an integral part of the academic process and research effort, the opportunity to contribute to this scientific endeavor.

On Saturday, Al-Quds University launched the second international conference for social sciences to be the largest academic event of its kind in Palestine, in the presence of the university president Dr. Imad Abu Kishk, heads of six Turkish universities and prominent political and diplomatic figures.

In celebration of the International Woman’s Day 2018, and to emphasize the leading role of women in societal development, woman scientists at the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative (PNI) at Al-Quds University were featured in a series of posts on the PNI’s Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/Palestinian.Neuroscience.Initiative). 

The PNI highlighted the key contributions of woman scientists in leading and building infrastructure for neuroscience research in Palestine.  These efforts represent one of the core missions of the PNI; the empowerment of Palestinian women in science.

Jerusalem| Al-Quds University honored a group of researchers in the fields of science and humanities, based on the results of the "Al-Quds University Prize for Scientific Research for Academic Year of 2016-2017". And the ceremony was held under the patronage of the President of the University, Dr. Imad Abu Kishk.

A group of researchers have developed a new technology to treat cancer that can make a difference in reducing the side effects of cancer treatments by targeting cancer cells with electric impulses that open the cell wall permanently without burning the infected tissue and without compromising the blood vessels, ducts and the external tissues. For the patient, the reconstruction process will be better and faster.

Jerusalem| Researchers from Al- Quds University have developed a mechanism for the prevention of leishmaniasis by predicting the areas where human and animal diseases may spread in the skin and internal organs, by a study made in Libya which they could predict the areas where the diseases may spread in future periods by 2060. And this mechanism will be implemented in Palestine soon.

A team of researchers from Al-Quds University, Faculty of Dental Medicine investigated the effectiveness of using an innovative technology, used for the first time in the region of the Middle East, in students’ dental pre-clinical work evaluation and grading. The accurate assessment of dental students' pre-clinical work is the most critical component of the dental education process. Thus, Al-Quds University, dental school sought to have an objective way to assess students’ dental skills by using a new software that has the ability to grade students crown preparation by compare students’ work to a gold standard work selected by the supervising faculty.

 Investment in scientific research pays off again with AQU scientists inventing an App that can detect breast cancer

JERUSALEM | Due in large part to the allocation of the needed resources and a thrust of moral and financial investment from its administrators, Al-Quds University continues to score big in the field of scientific research, this time with a feat so phenomenal that the ‘revolutionary’ discovery will benefit women worldwide.