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Did you know that there are more than 1,000 international students, from more than 30 countries, studying at the Technion? Watch as Technion international students panel speak with Professor Ayelet Fishman, Dean of Students, during the December 2021 Board of Governors meeting.
This short video, which premiered during the virtual Technion Board of Governors meeting in December 2021, is an overview of the student body and the 2021-2022 academic year. The Technion’s Haifa campus now has a population of 15,000, studying in 17 faculties.
Pictured Above / BizTEC 2021 winners Team Defi (L to R): Prof. Ezri Tarazi , Ravit Abel, Idan Shenfeld, Alon Gilad, Yaron Arbel, Eyal Kellner, and Ohad Yaniv The Defi team, established by Technion students, won first prize and $10,000 in the BizTEC 2021 entrepreneurship competition, which took place in Tel Aviv. The prize was awarded to the team members for the development of a compact portable defibrillator, which is inexpensive and easy to use. Two teams took second place: BrainSense, which developed a system that monitors stroke events by identifying changes in brain activity and whose members are Technion…
The National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (collectively known as NAI-IPO) has ranked the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology as one of the top 100 worldwide universities granted U.S. utility patents. The achievement is yet another international recognition of the Technion’s rigorously entrepreneurial and innovative spirit on campus — an ethos that has produced thousands of inventions from both researchers and alumni, including a device that uses AI to detect the scent of more than 23 specific disease biomarkers in a person’s breath, the USB flash drive, and a robotic suit that enables paraplegics to…
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in collaboration with researchers from Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Toulouse, France, discovered an artificial molecule that may inhibit the development of Alzheimer’s disease. The molecule breaks down the toxic chemical complex Cu–Aβ, inhibiting the cell death that is thought to be related to Alzheimer’s. The study was led by Professor Galia Maayan and doctoral student Anastasia Behar from the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, in collaboration with Professor Christelle Hureau from the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS.
A friend calls with the news she was just diagnosed with COVID-19. You had dinner with her last night, and suddenly you start coughing, feel flu-like symptoms, and your fever spikes. What’s going on? Are you coming down with the virus or are your symptoms psychosomatic? You test negative. Yet Technion Associate Professor Asya Rolls […]
There is no guarantee for preventing stroke, but eating healthy, exercising, and regular medical check-ups go a long way. Now it seems we can reduce stroke risks even more with computer science. Two Technion master’s degree students have written a machine learning algorithm that can accurately predict whether a person will develop the irregular heart rhythm atrial fibrillation (AFib) — a condition that causes one in seven strokes. Working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Joachim A. Behar, head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Medicine, Shany Biton and Sheina Gendelman accessed more than one million ECG recordings from more…
Scientists from the Technion have found a way to rejuvenate the aging process of the body’s immune system. Professor Doron Melamed, principal investigator in the Richard and Kenneth Skodnek Developmental Immunology and Aging Research Laboratory, and doctoral student Reem Dowery sought to understand why the elderly population is more susceptible to severe cases of COVID-19 and why the vaccines seem to be less effective and wane faster among this population. The results of their work were published recently in the peer-reviewed, online medical journal Blood. The secret begins with B cells, also known as B lymphocytes, which protect us from…
Technion students don’t wait until graduation to make an impact on the world. Students from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering recently showed off an array of initiatives from a tool that can detect cardiovascular disease to ingenious ways to fight COVID-19 — intriguing and lifesaving projects that could change the world.
Pictured above: Icy Tower team. (L-R) Suad Mansour, Aseel Khateeb, and Sereen Diab At the end of every term, the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion holds its annual projects fair, showcasing projects by undergraduate students in their final year. This year, the students presented projects that reflected the fields of computer science they belong to and the subjects they chose to tackle. Some created mobile apps for different uses; some wrote programs to solve diverse problems; some delved into virtual reality; and some built devices, delving into the evolving field of the Internet of…
In 2019, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology bought more than 2.3 million disposable cups, almost one million disposable teaspoons, and hundreds of thousands of other single-use items. Disposable utensils currently account for approximately 9% of waste on campus. On October 1, 2021, the Technion will stop buying disposable utensils, eliminating that source of waste altogether. The move is being led by the Technion’s Sustainability Hub under the academic guidance of Professor Daniel Orenstein, who has authored important research on the issue of sustainability at universities, and the Hub’s coordinator, Dr. Ronit Cohen Seffer. Before making this decision, the…
The Technion Senate released a historic declaration outlining their vision for adequate gender representation among the Technion faculty. “Technion’s gates are open to faculty and staff members, as well as to students, of all genders, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities. Technion recognizes the value of human diversity for ensuring a social environment that fosters curiosity, imagination, creativity, achievement, and critical thinking while seeking the truth,” the declaration said. “The members of Technion’s academic faculty, Senate, and management are aware of the absence of adequate gender representation at this time (2021) — a reflection of historical, cultural, and social circumstances. They are…