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Brigadier General (Ret.) Pinhas Buchris ’91 is a longtime pioneer of Israel’s security, dedicated to serving the State both on the frontlines and in various leadership positions. He’s also a man who lives by his words. Once, when asked what advice he would give to up-and-coming Technion students, he said: “If I have a message for (them), it is: ‘The daring is victorious.’ Don’t give up on your dreams even in difficult times. Studies and perseverance can lead to improvement and success, even when the environment seems hostile or difficult.” His long and storied career and bold contributions to securing…
Dental implants, made of titanium or titanium alloys, are widely used to provide a durable solution to missing teeth and restore functionality. While the long-term success rate is relatively high (75% at 20 years), the largest contributor to implant failure is peri-implantitis, an inflammatory disease affecting the soft and hard gum tissues around the implant, causing jawbone regression and gradual exposure of the implant’s threads. As of today, there is no viable clinical solution to delay or stop the progression of the disease. Moreover, the reasons for the development of peri-implantitis are not well understood. Patients may blame themselves for…
The Technion announced today that two well-known foundations have joined together in a collaborative effort to enhance the Technion Human Health Initiative. The undertaking will establish the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Human Health Building, which will be home to the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Cancer Research Center. Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan said, “The construction of this building and the cancer research center housed in it is nothing less than a historic event. We are celebrating today two of the largest donations in the history of the Technion, which were made possible thanks to a first of its kind…
School’s in session! After being postponed nearly three months due to the ongoing war with Hamas, the Technion academic year began on Sunday, January 14. The student body includes more than 15,000 students, with 10,745 undergraduates and approximately 3,000 graduate and 1,400 doctoral students. As usual, the faculties with the largest numbers of new undergraduate students include the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science, and the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences. The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering is also in high demand. There are more…
Professor Isaac Keslassy is the Louis and Miriam Benjamin Chair in Computer-Communication Networks in the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Together with his students, he focuses on how to make the internet faster and better. The internet relies on many server farms called data centers. For instance, when an item is ordered on Amazon, the order goes to a data center, where several servers process it. Prof. Keslassy looks at the networks that connect the servers within these data centers so orders can be processed more quickly. His team also works to improve the networks…
More than 2,500 Technion students were called up to serve in the Israel-Hamas War. Some of them were wounded. One is N.I. He grew up in Mitzpe Ramon, a small city of 5,000 people in Israel’s Negev desert in the south. “I spent my whole childhood there. I was a mischievous kid. I went to a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) middle school, which I now know operated without a license, and I didn’t receive a good education there,” he said. In high school, he studied at a yeshiva and two years in a military boarding school. “In 10th grade, I was…
Dear Technion Family, The academic year 5784 will commence soon and it will be a different and sorrowful year. The three months that have passed since October 7 have been painful and challenging for the State of Israel and the Technion family. Dozens of our friends’ family members were murdered, and others were abducted. Many have been injured or killed in the war, and our hearts are filled with pain and worry. Approximately 2,500 students, faculty members, and administrative staff were called up for reserve duty, and many of them are still serving. In the spirit of Technion tradition, we…
Associate Professor Ido Kaminer of the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion recently won an ERC Consolidator grant. The grants support select scientists who propose pioneering, groundbreaking research ideas – presented by the European Research Council (ERC). Prof. Kaminer and his team will use the grant to develop a theory and innovative experimental platform for a new field in electron microscopy: Q-in-PINEM. The research combines use of an electron microscope with a femtosecond pulsed laser, which is the first system of its kind in Israel and one of just a few in the…
Professor Shulamit Levenberg of the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, director of both the Technion Center for 3D Bioprinting and the Rina & Avner Schneur Center for Diabetes Research, was recently chosen as a fellow of the American National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Her nomination will be officially announced during NAI’s annual conference in North Carolina in June. Prof. Levenberg is among a handful of Israeli women scientists who have created the most innovative technologies and has registered dozens of patents. She has founded several startups, including Aleph Farms, which creates cultivated steak using cattle cells with no harm to…
More than 250,000 Israelis are refugees in their own land, having been evacuated from the north and south of the country due to the Israel-Hamas war in the south and threats from Hezbollah in the north. The Technion is providing many with housing and other services and is offering a one-week robophysics program for outstanding 11th- and 12th-graders who have been displaced. Partnering with Atidim, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to bright young people from Israel’s underserved and marginalized communities, 30 high school students participated in a robophysics program created by the Technion’s Andrew and Erna Viterbi…
On Saturday, October 6, 1973, Eddie Rabinovitch ’75 and Marianna Shapiro ’77 had just mailed their last batch of wedding invitations when suddenly they noticed cars on the street — unusual in Israel on Shabbat and Yom Kippur. The radio, typically silent on the Sabbath, broke the news: Egypt and Syria had staged a surprise attack on Israel in the north and the south, starting the Yom Kippur War. They had planned a festive evening wedding but due to blackout restrictions, settled on a daytime event without music or dancing. A week after their November 1 wedding Eddie was deployed…
