Tag Archives: Students
Technion Opens 2022/2023 Academic Year
A total of 2,026 new students – 48.2% of whom are women – began their studies at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa this past Monday. The continued increase in the percentage of female students on campus in recent years is the result of an ongoing effort by the Technion’s management to… Read More
Preventing Chemo-Caused Hair Loss
Unprecedented achievements for the Technion - Israel Institite of Technology synthetic biology team at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, held in Paris from October 26 to 28. The students won a gold medal, were ranked first in the Bio-manufacturing and Measurement categories, and ended in the Top 10 overall. The group are engineering… Read More
Strokes of Genius: Artists to Collaborate with Technion Community in New Creative Science Program
The Sonia Marschak Artist in Residence Program is set to begin this upcoming semester at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan initiated the pilot program to enrich the student experience and spark an open dialogue on campus surrounding art, science and engineering. “The new program expresses the… Read More
AI Challenge
The unique hardware hackathon that recently took place at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology offered participating students a complex technological challenge: to develop an artificial intelligence-based accelerator combined with a RISC-V processor. The Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) hackathon, which took place in the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer… Read More
Precision Medicine
This year’s Annual Project Presentation Conference at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Biomedical Engineering was awarded to students Maya Almagor and Roni Baron. Under the supervision of Professor Yuval Garini, the two developed a technology for spectral imaging of cancer biopsies for precision medicine. According to the students, “Personalized medicine is… Read More
Lily Safra’s Legacy
This year, one of Israel’s most prestigious and poignant educational programs, the Israel Scholarship Education Foundation (ISEF) mark 45 years since its establishment, unfortunately coinciding with the passing of Lily Safra, one of its key founders and the former Honorary Chair of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. The ISEF Foundation was founded in 1977… Read More
Outstanding Achievement
She’s already published a scientific article and participated in an international conference, and she’s still completing in her BSc. Technion student Batel Oved presented her research at a major international conference and was nominated for two awards. The research topic: an innovative method for critical cryptographic hash functions. Batel Oved, a BSc student at the… Read More
Formula Team’s First Autonomous Electric Car
On June 22, 2022, the Formula Technion team unveiled its new car. For the first time, in view of the upcoming summer 2022 motor racing season, the team presented an autonomous electric vehicle (A-EV). The Formula Technion project was established in 2012 in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and has grown steadily since. Today, the… Read More
2022 Graduation Ceremony
On June 30th, 2022, we held the graduation ceremony of the Technion's 93rd cohort, awarding 1869 students with their university degrees; 40% of the graduates were women. Our guest of honor, Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, gave the commencement speech. The graduation ceremony was preceded by the Honorary Doctorate Conferment Ceremony for… Read More
Where Science and Art Meet
On March 23, Nir Almog, a 22-year-old student in our Faculties of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, showcased his first solo art exhibition, entitled “What if Science Were to Burst Through the Door?” Bursting with colors and eye-catching shapes, his paintings are full of life, expressing the “sense of marvel” he draws from his studies. “In… Read More