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Rotem Bar-Or

HUJI Bites: Smart Cities with Dr. Rotem Bar-Or

9 April, 2021

Hebrew University students aren’t the only ones getting smarter!  Smart Cities are radically changing the way we live - using technology to provide services and solve city problems – improving everyday essentials like transportation, accessibility, and sustainability for the lives of that cities citizens. At the forefront of this initiative in Israel is Hebrew University’s Department of Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Research
Humanities
HUJI Bites: Combatting Malaria with Dr. Anat Florentin

HUJI Bites: Combatting Malaria with Dr. Anat Florentin

2 April, 2021

 

Malaria is a major global health issue, killing half a million people each year – mostly very young children in sub-Saharan Africa.

In pursuit of a cure is Dr. Anat Florentin, a science and nature enthusiast, who joined Hebrew University’s Faculty School of Medicine in July 2020. On this episode of HUJI Bites, Florentin discusses her ground-breaking research into the apicoplast – an organelle inside the parasite cell and a promising candidate as a potential drug target against the disease.

 

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Research
Medicine
An End To Invasive Biopsies?

An End To Invasive Biopsies?

8 February, 2021

Hebrew University Researchers Advance Simple and Inexpensive Diagnostic Blood Test

A new blood test has the potential to diagnose a wide array of diseases including cancers, liver diseases, immune disorders and more.  Extremely accurate, the test can report on the exact state and location of the disease without need for invasive and painful biopsies.

 

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Research
Medicine
Promising Hebrew University Researchers Awarded Prestigious ERC Starting Grants

Promising Hebrew University Researchers Awarded Prestigious ERC Starting Grants

10 January, 2022

Drs. Yonit Hochberg and Mor Nitzan Among 43% of ERC Grants Awarded to Women, Highest Rate Ever

Close to 400 early-career researchers won European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, among them two promising female researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). These grants, worth on average €1.5 million each, will help ambitious younger researchers launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their best ideas. 

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Research
Sciences
The Hebrew University community mourns the passing of human rights advocate Prof. Ruth Gavison

The Hebrew University community mourns the passing of human rights advocate Prof. Ruth Gavison

16 August, 2020

Professor Emerita Ruth Gavison was a world-renowned expert in jurisprudence, a brilliant philosopher, and a pivotal figure in the Israeli public discourse on the relationships between law and morality, politics and religions. As a leading voice for human rights and Israeli democracy, she founded and served as president of Israel’s largest civil rights organization the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

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World’s Top Math Prize Awarded to Hebrew U’s Hillel Furstenberg

World’s Top Math Prize Awarded to Hebrew U’s Hillel Furstenberg

20 March, 2020

The Abel Prize, often referred to as the Nobel of Mathematics, was established to recognize contributions that are of “extraordinary depth and influence”.
Today, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced it will award the Abel Prize to Hillel Furstenberg at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gregory Margulis at Yale University “for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics”. 

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In the media
Research
Alfred Landecker Foundation Announces $13 Million Dollar Grant to Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alfred Landecker Foundation Announces $13 Million Dollar Grant to Hebrew University of Jerusalem

9 September, 2020

Largest-Ever German-Israeli Academic Grant to Promote Research on Human Rights and Minority Protections in Age of Rising Nationalism and Authoritarianism

The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) a $13 million USD grant to fund academic initiatives that focus on the causes and consequences of the Holocaust, promote studies on human rights, minority protection, the rule of law, and reparations for historical wrongs and injustices.

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In the media
Hebrew University Mourns the Passing of Prof. Zeev Sternhell

Hebrew University Mourns the Passing of Prof. Zeev Sternhell

21 June, 2020

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) mourns the passing of Professor Zeev Sternhell.  Sternhell was a world-renowned expert on fascism and nationalism and Emeritus Professor at HU's Political Science Department.  He was 85 years old and is survived by his wife Ziva and two daughters, Tali and Yael.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides Visits Hebrew University, His First Visit to an Israeli Academic Institution

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides Visits Hebrew University, His First Visit to an Israeli Academic Institution

15 March, 2022

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides visited the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HU) today, his first visit to an Israeli academic institution.  During the visit, Ambassador Nides met with senior University leaders – including the university’s president, Prof. Asher Cohen, its vice-president Amb. Yossi Gal and its rector, Prof. Barak Medina – as well as with prominent researchers and scientists. Ambassador Nides also met with university students and professors who take part in Embassy-sponsored programs and chatted with them about the importance of diversity and higher education.

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