Two researchers have secured prestigious Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships for 2023 in a coup for the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI).
After a month advancing her studies at World Vegetable Center headquarters in Shanhua, Taiwan, on her last day, Shanice Van Haeften speaks about her experience.
Completing a PhD is a marathon. But to receive a Dean’s Award for an Outstanding HDR thesis adds another degree of difficulty. That achievement is a reality for four QAAFI graduates, three from the Centre for Horticultural Science and one from the Centre for Nutrition and Food Science.
Two QAAFI students topped the best student presentation awards at the recent Sorghum in the 21st Century conference at Montpellier, France, heading an international field.
QAAFI PhD candidate Tori Millsteed is one of an elite group named as a 2023 Westpac Future Leader for her research on boosting crop yields through genetics.
Eleven researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) have been awarded more than $3.1 million through the 2022 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships.
Genetic solutions to optimise root systems in wheat crops will be the focus of a successful ARC Future Fellowship awarded to the University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Lee Hickey.
Young researchers from The University of Queensland are conducting valuable agricultural research, after recently receiving a Crawford Fund Student Award for 2022.
Jane Ray, a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland, travelled to Costa Rica as part of a project to identify and manage bacterial wilt diseases in bananas after being awarded a Crawford Fund Student Award by the Crawford Fund's Northern Territory Committee. She was supported in-country by the University of Costa Rica.
