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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Three Israeli universities secured prestigious positions in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking published Friday, demonstrating academic excellence despite unprecedented challenges from international boycott movements and wartime conditions. The Weizmann Institute achieved 71st place worldwide, leading Israeli institutions in the global academic ranking. The Hebrew University claimed 88th position, while Technion earned 97th place among the world’s top universities.
Teaching Resilience after Crisis Where the Ideas get Built The Faculty’s labs are as unique as its mission. In the Mathematics Education Lab, math comes alive through engineering scenarios modeled on the Iron Dome defense system. The People & Plant Lab takes a more introspective route, examining how identity, mobility, agency, and the environment shape […]
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology sealed a time capsule during a ceremony in early June, set to be opened in 2124 to celebrate the university’s 200th anniversary. The time capsule aimed to capture the achievements of the Technion during its first century, according to a press release from the university. The capsule was sealed during the Technion Board of Governors meeting. Items were selected by faculty, students, and management to represent campus life, the institution’s innovation, and its contributions to research and education.
In days when many students find themselves cut off from educational frameworks due to war, evacuation or instability – the “Focus Hour” project proves how a single initiative, born out of chaos, can become an island of routine and learning. This is a volunteer project that provides free private lessons via Zoom to evacuee students from all over the country. So far, hundreds of volunteers have participated in it and hundreds of students have benefited from it, and it doesn’t look like it will stop anytime soon. It all started with a sense of frustration. Ohad Tshuva, an electrical engineering…
Discover the Next Big Ideas from Startup Nation Hear from Israel’s most intrepid minds: the Technion’s t-Hub students, who presented the next generation of innovative technologies, their business plans, and elevator pitches at Pitch Night 2025. Our exclusive panel of judges — all entrepreneurs and investors — interrogated their concepts, scaling and distribution plans, sales projections, marketing strategies, and more. If you love Israel, science, innovation, and investment opportunities, you won’t want to miss this recap!
The Technion celebrated 100 years since its opening with a festive event at its historic building in the Hadar neighborhood, in the presence of President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, and his wife, Michal. The event marked the opening of the Technion Board of Governors meeting. During the event, Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan presented the […]
For the past 100 years, the Technion has played a seminal role in transforming a tiny country with plenty of existential challenges and few natural resources into a technological powerhouse and a world-class economy. From its early days, Technion students, faculty, and alumni persistently engaged in groundbreaking research, fueled by the necessities of a young country in a hostile neighborhood. Time and again, they devised creative solutions across many fields, resulting in numerous remarkable breakthroughs that helped Israel become one of the world’s most advanced technological pioneers. Technion researchers and alumni were directly responsible for establishing most of Israel’s key…
First, they say they want you/ Indeed, how they really need you/ Suddenly, you find you’re out there walking in a storm… – Neil Diamond Neil Diamond’s 1981 hit song “Love on the Rocks” captures my anger, angst, disgust, and deep sense of betrayal regarding America’s elite two-coast universities Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, NYU, Stanford, and Berkeley. I did my PhD at Princeton, taught for 20 summers at MIT, visited many of the others – always, when walking their halls, with a sense of awe and affection for these sacred places where creative ideas thrived that made the world a…
Bloomberg L.P. co-founder and philanthropist Tom Secunda today announced a landmark donation to Cornell Tech, Cornell University’s tech campus in New York City, totaling $10.5 million to create the Cornell Empire AI Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program Fund. This donation will advance the mission of Empire AI, providing researchers and faculty with unparalleled access to computing power and opportunities to engage in groundbreaking AI research for the public good. “I’m proud to be supporting Cornell’s top AI researchers in their pursuit of new, groundbreaking AI developments that will benefit the people of New York. By giving these researchers the freedom to explore…
Wendy Ju, associate professor at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, has been awarded a place in the Class of 2025 of the prestigious ACM SIGCHI Academy. The award honors her leadership and innovations in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). ACM SIGCHI — the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction — is one of the world’s largest associations of professionals who contribute towards the research and practice of HCI. The highly competitive SIGCHI awards uplift those who have changed the field of HCI…
Over one hundred years ago, a few bold visionaries recognized the imperative to establish a nexus of research and technological advancement on Haifa’s Mount Carmel. The goal: to build the State of Israel physically and discover breakthroughs that would drive change around the world. From their determination came the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Film producer and director Uri Rosenwaks created the inspiring documentary “Technion 10²” to celebrate and reflect on the impact that the university has had on the State of Israel and beyond. As the documentary moves through the Jewish film festival circuit here in the United…