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Nanotechnology goes big time at Bar-Ilan
University joins nanotech leaders
With the recent opening of the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Nanotechnology Triplex, Bar-Ilan University (BIU) will now have Israel's largest facility devoted to exploring ways nanotechnology can advance scientific breakthroughs in such fields as chemistry, energy storage, drug development and photonics. Read more in The Jerusalem Post article about the Triplex.
New Gonda Nano Triplex is an example of Israel's potential
In his recent Jerusalem Post Op-Ed, BIU President Prof. Moshe Kaveh wrote that the University's Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in the Gonda Nanotechnology Triplex is a prime example of Israel's potential to stand at the forefront of international innovative research. Read more.
Michael Gonda, center, grandson of Leslie and the late Susan Gonda, cuts the ribbon officially opening the Gonda Nanotechnology Triplex as, far left, Prof. Arie Zaban, director of the BIU Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, and BIU President Prof. Moshe Kaveh look on.
Israel's brain drain turns to brain gain with help of AFBIU donors
Last month's opening of the Gonda Nanotechnology Triplex, and launch of the new Barbara and Fred Kort Doctoral Fellowships of Excellence Program in the Humanities at BIU made headlines in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. Read more about how American Friends of Bar-Ilan University leaders are turning Israel's brain drain into a brain gain.
Dr. Yuval Garini, who is doing pioneer work on nano-imaging of the DNA structure, is among the scientists who returned to Israel to join BIU's Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
TIME selects BIU alum as one of the world's most influential people
Professor Edna Foa
Prof. Edna Foa, who received her BA degree in psychology from Bar-Ilan University, was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. A long-time professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Foa was cited for her groundbreaking work to help troops suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Read more.
Medical vision for 2020 is laid out by new BIU Medical School Dean
Prof. Ran Tur-Kaspa
Prof. Ran Tur-Kaspa, Dean designate of Bar-Ilan University's new medical school planned in the Galilee says, "We intend to adjust the content to the medicine vision of 2020." Under his leadership, the school in Sefad will include innovative programs such as preventive medicine, health-promoting environmental studies, health education and the link between environment and medicine. The master plan for the medical school being set up under the auspices of Bar-Ilan University was presented to the University Senate last month. Read more.
Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies at BIU Perspectives
Turkey says goodbye to Israel and the West
Prof. Efraim Inbar, Director of the BESA Center, argues in his recent Perspective Paper that by endorsing the "Gaza Flotilla" Turkey is escalating tensions with Israel. He writes that this is just another reflection of the change in Turkish foreign policy, which acquires a greater Islamic coloration and is distancing itself from the West.
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Defending Netanyahu's defensive strategy
Prime Minister Netanyahu's protective or defensive diplomatic strategy is the right one argues Prof. Shmuel Sandler because of "Israel's bitter experiences with the Middle East peace processes." Read more in his BESA Center Perspective Paper.
BIU Rennert Center presents award to Hoenlein, who decries apathy of Israel's friends
From left, Prof. Joshua Schwartz, Director, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Malcolm Hoenlein, Ingeborg Rennert, and Bar-Ilan University President Moshe Kaveh at the ceremony in which Hoenlein received the Rennert Center's Guardian of Zion Award.
"We are living in an age of forgetfulness. We seem to be losing any connection to the past or we dismiss it. We will pay a heavy price for this," said Malcolm I. Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, who delivered the annual Distinguished Rennert Lecture after receiving the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University's Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies. "We will pay a heavy price if friends of Israel and the Jews remain apathetic and ignore the signs of anti-Semitism and real threats against the Jewish state and the unity of Jerusalem," warned Hoenlein at the gala ceremony, which took place at Jerusalem's King David Hotel. Read more.
Bar-Ilan Buzz
Teaching the
ABC of love Prof. Pnina Klein
When it comes to creating a better mental health for sick, underprivileged and gifted children everywhere, educators worldwide are turning to the expertise of one Israeli researcher - BIU Prof. Pnina Klein, whose intervention program is individually tailored to each child. Read more in the Israel21c Innovative News Service article about her groundbreaking work.
BIU experts seek way to reconstruct Bible text
Is there a way to scientifically reconstruct the original biblical text? And if so, what would the halachic ramifications of such an achievement be? These two questions were addressed at the ninth meeting of Bar-Ilan's Nitzozot study series, which brought together experts from the fields of computer sciences, Bible study and Halacha for a discussion of the origins and fluctuations of the biblical text. Read more in The Jerusalem Post coverage of this conference.
Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan aided Holocaust rescue
BIU is named after Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan
Prominent religious Zionists such as Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan, Rabbi Joseph Lookstein and the Bnei Akiva movement played an important role in promoting rescue from the Holocaust, historians revealed at a recent conference held at BIU, organized by the Washington-based David S. Wyman Institute of Holocaust Studies. Read more in the Jewish Press coverage of this conference.
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