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Professor Hossam Haick of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) at the Technion has been awarded three European research grants through the Horizon Europe program, totaling 4.2 million euros. Prof. Haick, the dean of undergraduate studies at the Technion and an expert in nanotechnology and non-invasive disease diagnosis, was awarded the grants for his research in cancer treatments. For the first grant, Prof. Haick will focus on understanding the risk factors surrounding lung cancer more closely, including personal risk factors such as lifestyle and pollutant exposure, external factors such as urban environments, transportation,…
Farmers lose around $30 billion in sales every year due to rotten fruit that never gets harvested. Fruit that gets picked even two weeks late ends up losing 80% of its value. Additionally, due to a shortage of fruit pickers, around 10% of fruits worldwide never get harvested. According to some estimates, if this trend continues there will be five million less workers than necessary by 2050. Farmers are left with the question of how to solve this issue. Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has a solution. The company has developed flying autonomous robots (FARs) that pick ripe fruit off the trees…
Just months after a new cable car started running in Haifa, it brought a very distinguished visitor to the Technion — U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas R. Nides. The Ambassador came to campus August 22 as part of a day trip to Haifa, where he visited city landmarks, met Haifa Mayor Einat Kalisch Rotem, and engaged with local leaders in the fields of education and economy. “It’s a big honor to be here,” Ambassador Nides told President Sivan and other senior managing directors of the Technion, adding that the university’s reputation precedes it. “I first heard about the Technion when…
Like pockmarked pumpkins that go unsold on Halloween, a whopping 30 to 50% of all vegetables and fruits are discarded each year solely because they are too unattractive to sell. But not for long. Israeli startup Anina, whose VP of R&D, Mor Wik, is a Technion alumna, is saving unwanted vegetables from the dumpster by turning them into artistic, edible packaging for ready-made meals. Anina cuts the would-be wasted vegetables into thin slices that are dehydrated and pressed into thin paper-like laminates. The laminates are then molded into edible meal-size containers and filled with instant vegan meals, which currently include…
Electric vehicles (EV) are surely a greener mode of transportation than gas-guzzling cars, buses, and trucks. But batteries are expensive, recharging takes longer than filing up at the pump, and charging stations are scarce, which can spark fear of getting stranded. Alumnus-founded Electreon has come up with an ingenious solution. Electrify the roads so our EVs can recharge while we are driving. The company, started in 2013 by Oren Ezer M.S. ’06, has been piloting its smart road technology in Israel and Europe. Now, they are rolling out in Detroit — the heart of the U.S.’s automotive industry. “As transportation…
As an ultra-Orthodox young girl, Bareqet Hadad never dreamed of studying at the Technion. But life is full of surprises. In July 2022, the mother of three – who already holds her second job in industry – became a graduate of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Hadad married at the age of 18, and after giving birth to her first child, the next step seemed clear: she’d study at a religious college to become an English teacher. She grew up in the ultra-Orthodox community of Elad, graduated high school, and discovered that she was good in English. One…
Used in many aspects of everyday life, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) control systems such as transportation services, factories, power stations, smart buildings, traffic lights, and more. Since such systems control automatic responses to changing environmental stimuli within frequently encountered structures, preventing them from being hacked into by those with nefarious intentions is of the utmost importance. Siemens, a multinational industrial manufacturer, is known across the industry to have the top security measures in place for their controller firmware systems. But a team of researchers from the Technion’s Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science recently found a way to…
Immunotherapy is an evolving novel treatment that triggers the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. But it doesn’t work for everyone or on every type of cancer. And determining whether it will work for a particular patient takes up precious time. But there is hope on the horizon: Technion researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up the process of making that determination, saving time in ascertaining the patient’s proper treatment plan. The study was conducted by Professor Keren Yizhak of the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion. Immunotherapy helps the immune system…
The Technion has been a magnet for trailblazing women in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields since it first opened its doors in 1924. That inaugural class of just 17 students included one woman, who came to the Technion to study architecture and civil engineering at a time when women were discouraged from pursuing higher education. The ranks of Technion women have grown significantly since 1924. Thanks to the concerted efforts of Professor Shimon Marom, executive vice president for academic affairs, about 40% of all appointments relating to promotions and tenure for academic staff are women. The number of…
Astrophysicist Prof. Ehud Behar is intent on unearthing the mysteries of extragalactic events. Stellar explosions. The merging of neutron stars. Black holes. Outer space hosts jaw-dropping phenomena. But too often, we’re late to the viewing party. These spectacular occurrences emit flashes of light, sometimes including prompt, intense gamma-ray bursts, alerting physicists to their presence. Yet by the time we record them here on Earth, we lose the early time windows to study the events. Professor Ehud Behar and his team are looking to fix this time lag with their Gamma-Ray Burst Localizing Instrument (GALI). This shoebox-sized device can identify the…
The Wertheimers Renovate Lab for Prosthetics The late Naomi Wertheimer would remember playing hopscotch and jump rope in the schoolyard as a young girl, standard rites of passage in the 1950s. But she would also remember that a friend could only watch from the sidelines because she had a wooden leg. That memory is at the heart of a gift to the Technion to advance prosthetics — a gift that also captures the Wertheimer family’s commitment to involve multiple generations in their philanthropy. Naomi’s husband Bruce, a second-generation Technion supporter, and the couple’s four children are establishing the Naomi Wertheimer…
The Journey of One Technion Alum The 1983 Cold War science fiction techno-thriller WarGames was a box-office hit that garnered three Academy Award nominations. The film about a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a Pentagon supercomputer also made its mark on then 12-year-old Guy Merin. “I went straight from the theater to K-Mart and bought my first computer,” he recalled. “I started my journey there.” It’s a journey that took him from earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the Technion to Microsoft, where he played a key role in the recent release of Surface Duo 2 — the…