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Ten years ago, the Technion joined forces with Cornell University to win a competition initiated by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to build an applied sciences campus in New York City that would promote entrepreneurship and spur job creation in the tech sector. “We thought there was no chance of winning so we went wild,” proposing […]
Remember the days when students relied on their professor and textbook to provide all the information they needed to know? That was before a little invention known as the Internet. “Today we are no longer information providers, so what are we?,” asked Technion President Uri Sivan. For example, academia used to be the sole domain […]
“I think crude oil is amazing,” said Associate Professor Charlotte Vogt, who ticked off a list of products from purses to curtains and shag rugs that are made from fossil fuels. “That’s probably not something you’d expect to hear from somebody who is focusing on sustainable processes,” she added. But while she called “humans and […]
Human health is one of the main challenges facing humanity. Americans spend more on healthcare, yet life expectancy is shorter here than in Norway and Switzerland. And national health spending is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.4% for 2019-28, reaching $6.2 trillion. The Technion is focusing on the next level of […]
One of the American Technion Society’s most popular speaker series, the Ilene & Steve Berger Technion Visiting Fellows Program features the university’s greatest assets: its students. Known as the Berger Visiting Fellows, these select scholars represent the very soul of the Technion. Their visit provides an inspiring glimpse into the lives and minds of those […]
Outside of Silicon Valley, Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world. And the Technion is one of the main drivers of the Israel’s high-tech economy. It is home to a prominent faculty members, including three Nobel laureates, and a long list of notable alumni, including engineers, scientists, physicians, professors and entrepreneurs. […]
American Technion Society – New England Presents Boston Business Council Meeting With Maya Kaduri ’17, M.S.’19 and Dean Zadok ’19 In February 2022, ATS New England and the Boston Business Council joined forces for an interactive discussion with Maya Kaduri ’17, M.S.’19, a Ph.D. candidate in the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering, and Dean Zadok ’19, a master’s student […]
Technion’s Ingenious Approach to Sustainable Food Tech Featuring Professors Marcelle Machluf, Ester Segal,and Uri Lesmes The world’s food system is reaching a crisis point: waste, overfishing, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions from farming, and more are destroying the planet. As the global population keeps growing, food security is fast becoming one of the major challenges facing […]
Climate change and rising concerns about the sustainability and healthfulness of our food supply have prompted researchers to rethink how we produce our food — including some of our favorite meals, like hamburgers. Dr. Dafna Pascoviche of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering explains recent food systems research being conducted at the Technion, and […]
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Click on the image above to experience this webinar. Plenty of good news came out of coronavirus research. Scientists got a jump on developing mRNA vaccines, treatment for viruses moved quickly past Tamiflu, and researchers realized the critical importance of making findings available to the public. These were just some of the conclusions to come out of a Technion webinar moderated by Professor Roy Kishony, the Marilyn and Henry Taub Professor of Life Sciences in the Technion Faculty of Biology. Stressing the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in tackling COVID-19, Prof. Kishony called on M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Matan Levine, mathematician Associate…