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Adapting Education in Science and Technology to the 21st Century
Adapting education in science and technology to the 21st century is a joint project by the Technion and the Abrams Hebrew Academy (AHA) more...
A Black Belt & A Rosy Future
Kira Radinsky, a PhD scientist from the Faculty of Computer Science, at 25 has a predictably bright future ahead, just as the topic of her research more...
From a Waste Site to a Blooming Garden
The Ecological Garden at the Technion Serves as a Major Focal Point to its Many Visitors, and as a Magical & Restive Corner on the Technion Campus more...
Naval Engineering – A Resurging Field
A new faculty appointment may lead to a promising future more...
From Haifa to NY, Technion to maintain cutting edge - on architectural front as well
Architect Thom Mayne talks about his vision for the Haifa Technion's new joint campus with Cornell University more...
The Challenge and the Mission
Lead team of Iron Dome, all Technion grads, discuss the key to its success more...
The Transparency Principle
The Wolfson and Zisapel centers are to develop together with CPC an innovative technology for printing ultra-thin conductors on convex lenses more...
When the Pig Acts as a Scaffold
Prof. Marcelle Machluf's lab has created from a porcine source a thick, complex scaffold for the myocardium, which supports human stem cells, retains the natural vasculature and comprises extracellular matrix proteins more...
Technion Researchers and the "God Particle"
Technion researchers have had an important part in the world's most powerful particle accelerator - the LHC project in CERN. more...
Play the Game
Prof. Oded ShmueliComputer Science Professor and
Executive Vice President for Research
at the Technion more...
The triumph of determination
Dist. Prof. Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, was all alone in the scientific world until his sensational discovery was proven: quasi-periodic crystals do exist! more...
The Human Immunopeptidome Project
Technion researchers propose the launching of a new international research project with a goal to define the in great details the repertoires of immune peptides more...
Our People in Singapore
Singapore looks to learn from the world’s leading universities, among which is the Technion more...
Biological Rosetta Stone
Dr. Roee Amit builds “a biological Rosetta Stone”. He hopes that in the future this will enable the translation of the genome’s “operating system”; more...
From obesity to cancer
Everyone knows the long list of harmful effects of smoking and can recite them from memory, but the Western world is still getting to know the hazardous effects of obesity, on its way to becoming the “cigarette smoking issue” of the 21st century. more...
From Security to Promise
An interview with Dr. Guy Bartal, formerly a guard in the government ministry offices in Jerusalem and today a member of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering more...
Simply because it is interesting –
in praise of curiosity and basic research
Ehud Behar - Professor of Physics and the head of the Asher Space Research Institute
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Professor Yehuda Kalay:
“Technology and innovation assist architects grappling with 21st century problems” more...
Returning greenhouse gases
to the ground
The Technion recently hosted a meeting of the partners of the “MUSTANG” research project, funded by the EU and overseen by Upsala University of Sweden.
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Prof. Ruben Pauncz celebrates his 90th birthday
“One of the pioneers in the application of quantum mechanics in the field of chemistry” more...
Maneuvering Room
“The only solution to the population increase and the dwindling of land reserves lies in Israel’s maritime space,” claims architect Prof. Michael Burt more...
Mathematics in its prime!
Work recently completed by Dr. Tammy Zieglerof the Department of Mathematics together with colleagues from the U.S. and Britain presents a major advance in Number Theory more...
Immediate Identification
Dr. Ester Segal and her research group at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering have developed a new method for rapid Detection of bacterial contaminations more...
Is it smart being greedy?
Prof. Seffi Naor found a way to improve online advertising sales using the auction sales method and achieve impressive results of 75% of the maximum income more...
Hills to towers - a journey
Until Grade 6, Dr. Nabieh Ayoub was a “child of the mountains” in Fassuta. Today, too, the 1st of September, the first day of classes in public school, still sends a chill through him more...
Investigating the inquiry
Professor Yoram Avnimelech of Civil Engineering is sorry that the investigation committee on the water crisis, in which he participated, didn't personally reprimand the heads of the water management establishment more...
The Sculpting Gene
The breakthrough work of Prof. Beni Podbilewicz and doctoral student Meital Oren-Suissa of the Faculty of Biology exposes a surprising new facet in the functioning of the nervous system more...
Nano-diamonds are forever
Professor Alon Hoffman of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry tells how he exploited unexpected results on his way to uncovering the mechanism for nano-diamond formation from energetic species more...
Robots and I
Prof. Moshe Shoham of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and head of the Center for Manufacturing Systems and Robotics speaks about a medical micro-robot, a goalkeeper robot and what lies in between more...
The Cosmos as a Laboratory
Prof. Ehud Behar of the Physics Department and the head of the Asher Space Research Institute at the Technion uses the astrophysics of X-rays to conduct cosmic experiments more...
The Communicator
Dr. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari from the Department of Education in Technology and Science advocates a new approach to improving the standing of science among the public through intelligent utilization of mass media more...
Treating Desalinated Water
Prof. Ori Lahav from the Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering has developed an elegant method for adding magnesium to desalinated seawater - making it fit for drinking and agricultural use more...
Extending Hubble
Prof. Pini Gurfil of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering believes that knowledge amassed by his distributed space systems group enables to launch a 200 meter virtual-aperture space telescope more...
Lord of the Rings
Professor Amnon Stanger of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry delves into the mysteries of aromatic rings, which continue to tantalize researchers decades after their discovery more...