The Technion’s story has been intertwined with Israel’s for more than a century, from laying the foundations for a new nation to shaping its future.
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Planned Giving Donor and Alum Gives Back to the University that Helped Shape his Career Yoram Benbarak B.S. ’71, M.S.’73 was an undergraduate student when computer technology was going through a momentous revolution that helped catapult Israel into its famed status as Startup Nation and a leader in innovation. The Technion was on the front lines. Distinguished Technion Professors Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel co-created the algorithm that serves as the basis for essential file compression currently used in computers and smartphones to send PDFs, videos, and music over the Internet. “That was a time of great change,” said Yoram,…
Pictured Above / Israeli and Moroccan State flags, and the Technion flag, during the signing ceremony. In September 2020, Israel, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and the two Arab nations. Morocco and Sudan followed suit three months later. Now, the Technion has signed an agreement of academic cooperation with Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), “reflecting a rapid and dramatic historical change in the region,” said Technion President Uri Sivan. Speaking at a ceremony on the Technion campus in April attended by UM6P President Hicham El Habti and delegations…
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 […]
Pictured Above / Moussa Youdim Professor Emeritus Moussa Youdim from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is the recipient of the 2022 Israel Prize for Life Sciences in recognition of his pioneering, groundbreaking scientific achievements in the field of neuropharmacology. The committee noted that Prof. Youdim, “… has placed generations of undergraduates and graduates, many of whom hold key positions, in Israeli academia and in the biotechnology industry. His publications have received wide international acclaim and have won him many awards.” Technion President Professor Uri Sivan said, “It is my honor to congratulate…
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. […]
Two Technion faculty members have won Proof of Concept (PoC) grants from the European Commission for Research (ERC). The prestigious grants, each worth $165,000, are intended to promote the application and commercialization of academic research, including the establishment of a start-up company. They are awarded only to researchers who have won an ERC grant in the past. Professor Shulamit Levenberg from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering won an award for her innovative development for 3D bioprinting and post-printing tissue growth: Print and Grow. Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is one of the most promising technologies in the world for tissue engineering. Bioprinting…