The Australian Friends is delighted to welcome two new team members. They are Andrea Frankel who has been appointed Office Manager and Jamie Wise who has been appointed Student Liaison and Marketing Officer.
Hebrew University-Bezalel-Azrieli Consortium Wins First Place—and $5 Million Dollar Award—to Create Jerusalem Entrepreneurship Center (Jerusalem, November 6, 2018)—The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), along with the Bezalel Academy of Design and Azrieli College of Engineering, received a 20 million NIS ($5.4 million USD) grant from Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE) to establish an entrepreneurship …
Glioblastoma is a serious and incurable brain cancer.Patients receiving this diagnosis typically have 11-20 months to live. One of the main difficulties in treating this cancer is that its cells quickly build up a resistance to chemotherapy. In the upcoming issue of Nucleic Acids Research, Professor Rotem Karni and his team at Hebrew University’s Institute for Medical …
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The human race spends a great deal of time fighting the inevitable. Just about every stage of life is inevitable, but we exercise to live longer, eat certain diets to stay healthier, and undergo treatments and use different products to ‘stay younger.’ As it pertains to that last one, an interesting new study indicates that …
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Better Hope the Boss is NOT Your Friend, New Study Finds (Jerusalem, December 3, 2018)—A manager has to give a bonus to one of two equally deserving employees, one of whom is his friend. A judge in a high school debating competition has to decide which of two finalists to vote for, one of whom …
Three years ago, the Hebrew University established Israel’s first university-based Autism Center, designed to integrate and advance research, training, clinical services, and community engagement for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. The education and services the Center provides are vital to progress in ASD research ASD is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder occurring …
#HebrewU mathematician Karim Adiprasito won the 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics prize for “early-career achievements in math”. The $100,000 prize was awarded to Adiprasito for helping to develop “a combinatorial Hodge theory which led to the resolution of the log-concavity conjecture of Rota”. Now, say that three times fast.
Israel was “the original start-up nation” and its focus on innovation in science and technology was a perfect fit with Australia’s ambitions, Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday.
Ambassador Yossi Gal is to visit Sydney for the first time since being appointed as Vice President for Advancement and External Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2015. Ambassador Gal will be speaking to the Community on “The Current Situation for Jews in Europe” on Monday 28 November at a private home in …
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