Tag Archives: Prizes & Awards
Keeping the Beat
Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan, entrepreneurs, and venture capital industry representatives attended the final event of the BizTEC Entrepreneurship Program at the Technion. Since its establishment in 2004, graduates of the program have raised a total of more than $1 billion The Defi team, established by Technion students, won first prize and $10,000 in the… Read More
Sugar Out, Prote-In!
The European Union's EIT Food organization awarded the "Innovation Impact Award" to a project led by Prof. Yoav D. Livney of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Amai Proteins and the global Danone and PepsiCo companies. The EIT Food Innovation Impact Award was… Read More
Merkel Receives Honorary Doctorate from the Technion
On Sunday, October 10, 2021, Technion President Professor Uri Sivan bestowed an honorary doctorate on German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel after a moving speech, in which he praised her outstanding leadership and called her “arguably the most admired, influential leader of our time and a role model for all democrats around the world.” Dr. Merkel… Read More
German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel to Receive an Honorary Doctorate from the Technion
German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel will receive an honorary doctorate from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in a ceremony set for Oct. 10, 2021, in Jerusalem, Israel. The ceremony will be streamed live on the Technion - Institute of Technology Facebook page starting at 5:15 (IDT). Chancellor Merkel, who is visiting Israel (after… Read More
Water From Air
H2OLL, an innovative Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) technology developed at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, has won the prestigious Water Europe Innovation Award for SMEs. The award was announced in June at the Water Innovation Europe 2021 Conference. Water Europe (WE) is a European technology platform for collaboration between research institutes, companies, and… Read More
Schmidt Science Fellowship
Dr. Ofer Neufeld, who completed three consecutive degrees at the Technion and recently completed his doctoral research in the Faculty of Physics, has been informed that he is the recipient of a Schmidt Science Fellowship. The Schmidt Science Fellows program, which was founded by Wendy and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to cultivate the next… Read More
EMET Prizes to Technion Architects
Architects Prof. Bracha Chyutin and Prof. Shamay Assif have won the EMET prize for architecture for 2020. Known as Israel's Nobel Prize, the EMET Prize is awarded for excellence in academic and professional achievements that have had far-reaching influence and have made a significant contribution to Israeli society. The prestigious awards, to the amount of… Read More
Shared Memory
Associate Professor Omri Barak of the Technion has won a prestigious grant for an international research project on memory in biology, computing, and materials Associate Professor Omri Barak, a member of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and a partner in the Network Biology Research Laboratories at the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences… Read More
Orr Zohar named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Orr Zohar, who is currently completing his master's degree in the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion, has been selected to continue his studies at Stanford University after being accepted to the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Zohar, 26, is the first Technion student to win the scholarship and is the first… Read More
“A Paragon of Love”
In honor of Israel's 73rd Independence Day, a beacon was lit this evening by Dr. Dror Dicker, Director of Internal Medicine and the Multidisciplinary Center for the Treatment of Obesity at Hasharon Hospital and a graduate of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (Class of 1991), The selection committee for this year's torch-bearers… Read More