Technion Confers Honorary Doctorates
Technion Confers Honorary Doctorates upon Distinguished Individuals
Today, Monday, June 17th, Technion will confer honorary doctorates for 2019 at the annual Board of Governors event. The ceremony will take place in the presence of President Prof. Peretz Lavie; Chairman of the Council Gideon Frank; and Chairman of the Board of Governors Lawrence Jackier; Senior Management and Faculty Deans.
The recipients of the Honorary Doctorate award for 2019 are:
Carol Epstein
Carol Epstein earned her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and is a former president of the Cornell Club of Washington and a proponent of Cornell Tech and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. She is a second-generation American Technion Society (ATS) supporter and leader on the local and national levels.
Dr. Stuart I. Feldman
Dr. Stuart Feldman has made pioneering contributions to software systems and programming languages and has left his mark on industrial research. As Chief Scientist of Schmidt Futures, he is responsible for scientific knowledge programs.
Prof. Dr. Alfred Forchel
Prof. Dr. Alfred Forchel is a highly acclaimed leader in the fields of nanofabrication, physics of semiconductor nanostructures and semiconductor lasers. His academic career spans over 30 years and his research activities have continuously been at the forefront of global research.
Prof. Stéphane Mallat
Prof. Mallat is a global scientific leader in the fields of signal and image processing. He has made fundamental contributions to the development of wavelet theory marking a revolution in signal processing. His research also covers harmonic analysis and machine learning. His academic work has been cited over 100,000 times.
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA, is a world-renowned architect, urban planner, educator, theorist and author. Spanning a celebrated 50-year career, Safdie is committed to architecture that is conversant with the geographic, social and cultural elements that define a place and that respond to human needs and aspirations.
Sami Sagol
Sami Sagol was born in Turkey and, at 15, immigrated to Israel with his family. Under his leadership, Keter Plastics, a company founded by his father in 1948, was transformed into a global concern with an annual turnover reaching the billion-dollar mark. A graduate of what is today Technion’s Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Sami Sagol has contributed generously to his alma mater and specifically to the establishment of the Center for Complex Materials in the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering.
Nina Avidar Weiner
Nina Weiner is the co-founder, President and Chairwoman Emerita of Israel Scholarship Education Foundation (ISEF) and is a zealous champion of Israel’s bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Through ISEF, she has helped to forge a new generation of leaders who are making their mark on Israeli society.
Prof. Stéphane Mallat will speak on behalf of the recipients.
The ceremony will take place today at 8:30 pm in Churchill Auditorium, Technion City, Haifa
For more information, contact Doron Shaham, Technion Spokesperson – Tel. 050-3109088
