Tag: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
American donor giving $5m to Israeli colleges after spurning Penn
An American-Jewish entrepreneur who has decided to reroute his philanthropy from U.S. colleges is donating $5 million to institutes of higher education in Israel.
The move comes as months of often violent antisemitic protests at...
Technion student project honors Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
A final student project at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture features a tribute to Hamas terrorist leader in Gaza and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, according to Zionist NGO Im Tirtzu.
The project, titled “One City,...
Israeli academia climbs in international rankings
Three Israeli universities appear in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities' top 100 list that the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy published on Tuesday.
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot climbed to No. 67 from last...
Innovative breast-cancer treatment uses anesthesia of nervous system around tumor
Researchers at the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative treatment for breast cancer based on analgesic nanoparticles that target the nervous system. The study, published in Science Advances, was led by Professor Avi...
Israel’s Technion to scrap throwaway cutlery for more sustainable alternatives
In less than three months, on Oct. 1, the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology will stop buying disposable utensils.
The decision by Technion executive vice president and director general Professor Boaz Golany came after a lengthy...
Technion ranked No. 1 in Europe in field of artificial intelligence
CSRankings, the leading metrics-based ranking of top computer-science institutions around the world, has ranked the Technion–Israeli Institute of Technology No. 1 in the field of artificial intelligence in Europe (and, of course, in Israel), and 15th worldwide.
In...
NASA names two asteroids after Israeli student who discovered them
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is naming two recently discovered asteroids after an Israeli student who found them during an asteroid-hunting project, it was announced on Friday.
Aseel Nama, a biomedical engineering student at the...
It’s 3D, it’s a printer … it’s a steak! Aleph Farms, Technion join forces...
With its research partner at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology, Aleph Farms has cultivated the world’s first slaughter-free ribeye steak, using 3D-bioprinting technology and natural building blocks of meat: real cow...
Study: Even one dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine lowers viral load and spread
Those infected with the COVID-19 virus after receiving even a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine present a much lower transmission risk than non-vaccinated individuals, according to new Israeli research.
This is because the vaccine...
Technion to award Pfizer CEO honorary doctorate for coronavirus vaccine
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will award an honorary doctorate to Pfizer CEO and chairman Dr. Albert Bourla for his “extraordinary achievement” in leading the record-time development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, Technion president...