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Relive this inspiring discussion with three Berger Visiting Fellows who are stellar female students poised to become the influential scientists and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. One has already made advances combating antimicrobial resistance and is now researching treatments for Alzheimer’s. Another has worked in the aerospace industry, and her research involves building a rocket. You’ll get […]
Few American Technion Society events are as uplifting as the annual visit of the Technion’s most promising students. Meet the 2021 Berger Visiting Fellows, a diverse and brilliant group of graduate and undergraduate students poised to become the influential scientists and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. These six students study in areas ranging from computer science to biotechnology and aerospace engineering, often juggling the demands of academia with young families. Hear more about their fascinating research — building a rocket, engineering healthy food, tackling Alzheimer’s disease — and the personal journeys that have shaped their pursuits. Dean of Students Professor Ayelet Fishman…
Technion researchers are accustomed to receiving awards for complex science breakthroughs conducted in their labs. Now they can claim a little piece of Hollywood. Technion alumni have received an Oscar and an Emmy — announced recently within the span of 10 days. Global video software company Beamr, whose technological leaders are graduates of the Technion’s Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, won a 2021 Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization. “It’s amazing,” said Technion alumna Tamar Shoham M.Sc. ’09. “I often encounter glossy looks when I say I’m an engineer…
Jordan Fung Tsz Chun was just 9 years old when he tried to teach himself coding. But he wasn’t happy with the online tutorials, so he did what few people three times his age would: he launched a startup to help fix the problem. A few years later he started another company. And today, at age 17, he is a freshman at Technion International, the international school of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. “Israel is a very nice place, and they’re also very nice people — innovative people, known for their startup ecosystem,” the Hong Kong teen recently…
Using innovative 3D printing technology, scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology had been able to help amputee children by creating prosthetic hands for them, an info-video revealed on Sunday. The children are involved in the design of the artificial hand and often view it in comic-book heroes’ terms such as Iron Man’s hand or Superman’s hand. The finished prosthetic is able to hold lightweight objects and provide the children a better sense of balance. The most immediate benefit is psychological, as the children no longer feel that their amputation makes them unusual and instead have a “cool bionic hand”…
Technion students and researchers are providing new hope for amputee children. Students from the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, led by Prof. Alon Wolf — together with the nonprofit organization Haifa3D — are making 3D-printed prosthetic hands for children. While prosthetics are often prohibitively expensive, these limbs are given for […]
ATS – Southern California Virtual Event Featuring Arielle Fischer ’11, Ph.D. ’16, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Zuckerman Faculty Scholar In this interactive virtual event for the ATS – Southern California community, Asst. Prof. Fischer shares her personal and academic journey since she last visited ATS supporters as a doctoral student. As a newly minted Technion faculty member, she’ll talk about her work to create biomedical applications, including high-tech sensors and smart wearable devices for artificial joints and neuromuscular disorders. Arielle Fischer is the embodiment of excellence. As a young soldier in the Israeli Air Force,…
Dr. Yehuda Sabiner does not back down from a challenge. Growing up a Hasid with little formal education, Dr. Sabiner closed the achievement gap to gain admittance to Technion–Israel Institute of Technology’s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. And when the opportunity arose to do a month-long rotation at the prestigious NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, he jumped at the chance. “I tried hard to get into this program,” said Dr. Sabiner, a 29-year-old father of three. “I had to interview, show my marks. And I got accepted into the student exchange program.” If Dr. Sabiner wondered whether his education in…