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• Technion Scientists Develop an Advanced Biological Computer
• Qualcomm Co-Founder awarded the Technion Medal
• Technion Presents a New Plan for Renovating the Nesher Quarry
• Science Reveals: Technion Scientists Developed a New Class of Photonic Materials: Spin-Optical Metamaterial
• A Chinese Educational Foundation will Support Chinese Students Studying at three Israeli Universities
• Technion Researchers: Nine of the date fruit varieties growing in Israel have been found to possess properties that protect against cardiovascular diseases
• The President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) at his recent visit to the Technion: “We have a lot to learn from Israel and the Technion in particular”
• Professors Eli Yablonovitch and Eric Lander receive Technion’s prestigious Harvey Award
• Technion leaders and heads of Israel’s pharmaceutical industry paid tribute to the late Barry Cohn in a commemorative evening
• Science reveals: a 100 year old mystery is solved. Technion Scientists found that “vaterite” crystals are composed of two different atomic arrangements
• A 200 years old mystery solved: Scientists from the Technion and the Hebrew University at the Inter-university Institute in Eilat discovered why soft corals pulsate
• Joan and Irwin Jacobs Announce $133-Million Naming Gift for the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute
• Harvey Prize 2012
• Cathy Dove, Vice President of the Technion-Cornell Campus in New York: The Applied-Engineering-Science Center for Research to open in 2017 will impact the entire city
• Israeli scientists develop first photonic topological insulators to provide protection for transport of light
• Professors Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, Technion Nobel Laureates, were elected to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy for their exceptional scientific contributions
• First ever comprehensive survey by American MIT and Russia’s Skolkovo findings: Technion is ranked 6th place for entrepreneurship and innovation in the world
• Technion President to Serve for a Second Term
• At the Prime Minister's Request: Technion Researchers Prepared the Gift for President Obama
• Three Projects by Technion Researchers and Graduates to be Presented to President Barack Obama
• Can thermal radiation exceed the limit Planck established more than 100 years ago?
• Students from the Technion developed a novel mobile indoor navigational system
• Nature Communications reports: Technion Scientists Develop a New Approach for Artificial Stimulation of Blind Retinas
• Scientists from the Technion and the Paris Descartes University developed an innovative approach to healing rare genetic syndromes
• NTU boosts satellite and space research under new collaboration with the Technion
• Researchers from the Technion and the University of Haifa found that aphids (plant lice) almost always land on their feet
• A First in the History of the Technion: Freshman Year Taught in Russian
• Sleep Apnea May Offer Unusual Protection for Heart Attack Patients
• The Technion and AMIT established a new company to commercialize stem cell technologies
• New Appointments to the Technion Council
• Technion Researchers Discovered Embryonic Stem Cells that may be a Suitable Substitute for Human Eggs
• Technion Scientists Develop a Novel Method to Model and Investigate Complex Biological Systems
• 10 Technion Lecturers Awarded the Yanai Award for Excellence in Academic Education
• A newly established joint Project underway by Technion’s Division of Continuing Education & External Studiesand the Governmental “Nativ” Organization
• Happy Hanukkah from the Technion: Technion's Rube Goldberg Machine that lights a Hanukkah Menorah
• Nature Reveals: Technion Researchers uncovered a novel approach to molecular architecture
• The Wild Life of Aging Stars (and Planets): Leaving home, exchanging partners, and taking part in violent collisions
• The Technion Purchases the Most Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope in Israel
• Technion Breakthrough: A New Chapter of Solar Energy Conversion and Storage?
• CITI-SENSE – A Europe-Wide Project Designed to Increase Public Participation and Awareness to Air Pollution – was Launched. Haifa is One of Nine Cities Participating in the Project
• Smoking a Hookah Increases Involvement in Traffic Accidents by 40%
• Technion and Stanford Researchers: Sleep Can Reactivate Frightening Memories and Alleviate Them
• Dov Moran Receives the Prestigious Technology Award from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation for the Development of the "Disk-On-Key"
• The First International Conference on Medicine and Architecture in the 21st Century Was Held at the Technion
• Israel's main high tech conference in the Jerusalem International Convention Center: The Panel on "From Academy to Industry Leadership - Technion Alumni CEOs Session" Moderated by Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie
• Israel's International High Tech Conference Opens at the Technion
• Shana Tova (Happy New Year) from the Technion Click to watch video >
• Technion & UCLA Researchers Identify a Structured Code used for Representing Speech Movements by Neurons in the Human Brain
• The Technion Jumps in the Shanghai Ranking – to 78th Place Worldwide
• Technion Researchers Characterize a Zinc Transporter Mutation that Causes Zinc Deficiency in the Milk of Breastfeeding Mothers
• Technion Researchers Construct a Polymeric Scaffold Array with Pancreatic Islets Surrounded by a Vascular Network
• Business Insider: The Technion is among the top 25 engineering schools in the world
• Danny Yamin Appointed Chairman of the Technion Council
• Technion Researchers Discover How the Defensive Chemicals of a Fruit Turn a Seed Predator into a Quality Seed Disperser
• At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors: The Technion Awards "Honorary Doctorates" and Launches the Book on the Institute's Contribution to the State of Israel
• Hundreds Attend the Opening of Professor Dan Shechtman's Jewelry Exhibition at the Technion: "A Jewel for my Wife"
• Prof. Dror Seliktar from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering publishes a review article in the prestigious journal "Science" covering the field of biomedical hydrogels.
  Link to Science website Link to the review article
• Technion Researchers Identify a Cluster of Five Genes in the Blood that Predict Parkinson's Disease
• Technion Scientists turn patients’ skin cells into heart muscle cells to repair their damaged hearts: first report
• Google to Provide CornellNYC Tech with Free Office Space for More Than 5 Years
• Technion Researchers Develop Computational Method for Improving the Resolution of Microscopes and Imaging Systems
• Robot Waiter Developed by Middle School Students under the Guidance of Technion Researchers Wins "Best Humanoid Robot" in an International Contest
• The Technion Celebrates its Centennial: The First International Beach Volleyball Tournament of its Kind in Israel Open
• Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg in the Harvey Award Ceremony at the Technion: the Israeli Economy Must Undergo Change, and Turn from a High Tech-Oriented Economy into a Science-Oriented Economy
• Treating Cancer as a Chronic Disease
• An International Beach Volleyball Tournament will be Held in the Technion, Haifa
• 2011 Harvey Prize Winner Awarded the “Nobel Prize of Computing”
• World Ort Organization's Kadima Mada Program and the Technion Robotics Center Held Last Weekend the Third International Robotics Competition, Robotraffic, Designed to Impart Safe Driving and Road Safety Habits
• Israel Technion Society Celebrates the Cornerstone Centennial of its Historic Building
• Robotraffic, the Third International Robotics Competition Designed to Impart Safe Driving and Road Safety Habits, to be Held at the Technion
• Researchers from the Technion and Carmel Developed a Novel Device for Monitoring Respiratory Problems in Premature Babies
• Dean of the Technion Computer Science Department Wins Prestigious Award in the Largest Cryptography Conference in the World
• The 52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences: Students Who Built a UAV for Ground Forces Win Prize for Best Project
• Technion Students Hack OSPF, the Most Popular Routing Protocol on the Internet
• 90 Lectures and Hundreds of Participants in the Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences that will discuss among others Unmanned Aircraft, Missiles and Spacecrafts
• Mayor Bloomberg announces Technology Expert and Cornell Professor Daniel P. Huttenlocher will be new dean of Cornell Nyc Tech Campus
• Christine Quinn, New York City council speaker, in a visit to the Technion: "The Technion-Cornell Initiative will make our City the Global High-Tech Capital"
• In a Lecture at the Technion "Open Day": Travel Habits Studied Using Cell Phones will Assist the Ministry of Transport in Creating Future Transportation Models; "In the Tel Aviv Metropolis, 2,400 Man-years are Wasted on the Road in One Month"; About 3,000 Candidates Came to Get Acquainted with the Technion
• Investment in human capital at Technion generates a 76-197 per cent social rate of return, at least, or in absolute terms, some $35-$60 b. for 50 graduating classes
• Technion Scientists Develop Biological Computer on Chip
• In a festive concert of the Technion choir and orchestra, held to commemorate 100 Years to laying of the cornerstone for the institute: Three Nobel Laureates Receive from Israel Postal Company a Special Stamp to Commemorate the Historic Event
• Israel Postal Company Issues a Special Stamp to Commemorate 100 Years to Laying of the Cornerstone for the Technion
• Technion Researchers are Planning to Launch into Space a Formation of Three Nano-satellites
• Technology Developed in the Technion will Protect Nutraceuticals and Allow Them to be Added to Clear Beverages
• 14 Lecturers Awarded the Yanai Award for Excellence in Academic Education
• Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell President Skorton and Technion President Lavie Announce Historic Partnership to Build a New Applied Sciences Campus on Roosevelt Island
• Researchers from Rambam Medical Center and the Technion for the first time successfully create new blood vessels using embryonic and reprogrammed  stem cells
• Professor Sir Richard Friend and Professor Judea Pearl – Winners of the 2011 Harvey Prize
• Professor Shechtman’s speech at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm
• Professor Dan Shechtman Speaks to 85 Swedish Business Leaders: “I tell my students… don’t dream of exits.”
• Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, Past President of the Technion, receives a prestigious award from the German government
• Technion celebrates the Nobel Prize with Prof. Danny Shechtman. Technion President: Scientific Truth Won
• “Transgender patients still face hostility, belittlement and vast ignorance from the medical establishment”
• Researchers from the Technion and Utrecht University in the Netherlands show that chemotherapy drugs can increase the risk of a metastic process in mice
• Technion researchers successfully polarize a nanometric-sized crystal by changing the composition of the molecules surrounding it
• The Technion and Monash University of Australia launch a series of joint lectures using advanced multimedia equipment
• The ICS Medal for 2011 will be awarded to Professor Dan Shechtman
• Technion graduates won first prize in the Innovativeness in Architecture and Sustainability Buildings Competition held in Italy
• Cornell and the Technion will partner in groundbreaking NYC Tech Campus
• The Technion, Microsoft Co-Establish Academic Research Center For E-Commerce Technologies
• Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman wins 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Technion team wins first place in the European entrepreneurship competition “Intel Challenge”
• The police complete their “Spring Spirit” experiment that proved: Covert enforcement is the most effective method & preferred also by the police
• Three submissions win at the Technion's Energy Conservation Competition
• Technion researchers discover a new mechanism for contact formation between crystalline nanoparticles in nanopowders
• Computer Science at the Technion – ranked 15th among the 500 leading universities in the world
• About 700 students this summer participated in the Technion’s science workshops and “SciTech” youth summer camp
• Prof. Lior Gepstein of the Technion - Winner of the European Society of Cardiology Award
• Your book - anyway you want it
• A Joint "Mekorot"-Technion Five Year Plan
• Two Technion students scored high results in the International Mathematics Competition held in Bulgaria
• Technion researchers successfully build "a biological Rosetta Stone" inside a bacterium
• Technion opens an undergraduate degree program in Bnei Brak in mapping and geo-information
• Technion researchers: “Reforming the Planning and Building Law will increase the public’s dependence on professionals, mainly lawyers”
• Technion researchers discover how click-beetles jump without using their legs
• The Israeli Physics Team Won Five Medals in the International Physics Olympics Held in Thailand
• Technion researchers solve the mystery of how long-term coexistence is possible between photosynthetic bacteria and the viruses that infect them
• €1.5 million from the EU for innovative research at the Technion dealing with disaggregated satellites
• $60 million for recruiting new staff, computer science labs & medical research
• Investment in Technion Research Produces an Annual Return for the State of More than 60%
• The world's largest yo-yo competition: A yo-yo to be released from a 30 m high crane
• Technion President: 76% of Technion Graduates Find Jobs in the Israeli Hi-tech Industry
• Technion signs an agreement with the University of Rochester in the U.S.
• Technion establishes the largest computer engineering center in the country
• Technion researchers create new optics
• Students at the Technion develop a magnetic car that floats in the air and a toolbox that follows its owner
• Breath test could identify head-and-neck cancer patients
• Students begin moving into the 216 new apartments in the Technion’s Graduate Students Village
• 83 students in the "Atidim" program are on the Technion's Dean's List & President's List
• Professor Yeshayahu Lifshitz of the Technion - Among the 100 leading materials engineers in the world in the last decade (2000-2010)
• “Science”: Technion researchers resolve 133-year-old theory - discover the nature of nanometer-scale layers between materials.
• The world’s longest yo-yo will be released from a 30 m high crane
• Technion Family Mourns the Loss of Henry Taub, Great Friend of Israel and the Technion
• In a lecture at the Technion an expert from Stanford warns: There is a risk for conflict between the U.S. and China due to oil shortages
• Technion researchers discover proteins that merge any two animal cells, and even a virus with mammalian cells
• Exhibition of the Founding of the Technion and the War of the Languages that was part of it has opened at the Haifa City Museum
• Prof. Michael Karin and Prof. Alexander Polyakov - Winners of 2010 Harvey Prize
• Technion Researchers Develop a Model that Provides a Unique Explanation for the Way in Which Ultrasound Influences Living Cells
• $5 Million for Grand Technion Energy Program
• The Israel Chemical Society Medal will be awarded in the Knesset to Mr. Eli Hurvitz and Professor Meir Wilchek
• Technion Researchers Discover that Movement of Krill and Jellyfish Greatly Assists Ocean Mixing
• Researchers Tap New Source of Cancer Markers in Blood
• Prof. Michael Karin and Prof. Alexander Polyakov are the winners of the Technion’s 2010 Harvey Prize.
• Technion researchers achieve breakthrough in creating biological energy
• Israeli and American Research Teams Close in on Genetic Risk Factors for Common Causes of Advanced Kidney Disease
• First Scientific Agreement Between Japan and Israel
• Technion Students and Researchers Build A Micro Robotic Helicopter Can be used for special operations, observation and tracking
• Technion Researchers Develop Revolutionary Electric Rocket Engine for Small Satellites