Tag Archives: Students
Gazing Together Into Space
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Israel Aerospace Industries to Collaborate on Student Project to Develop Nano Satellites The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion has signed a cooperation agreement with the Space Division at Israel Aerospace Industries to develop and launch a nano-satellite that will enter low-altitude orbit around the moon and… Read More
Congratulations to the Magister Graduates!
Technion City, June 15th, 2021: 827 graduate students receive their Master's degrees at a festive ceremony. The ceremony was held live in the open air after a long period of intermittent lockdowns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Read More
A Beacon of Tolerance
During the ceremony, Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan said that "leadership and personal accountability are the most effective and important responses to the challenges and difficulties that the events of recent days have repeatedly highlighted." On May 24th, the Technion awarded Ph.D. diplomas to 199 graduate students in a festive and moving ceremony at the… 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
“Volunteer work helps with studying – and vice versa”
At just 26 years of age, Lina Maudlej has already accumulated a very impressive list of projects and achievements including her volunteering activities. In recognition of this, she was recently awarded the Shosh Berlinsky Sheinfeld Award for social involvement in the community. The 10,000 ILS prize is intended to encourage and appreciate students who donate… Read More
Reach for the Stars
Two new asteroids discovered by Technion student Aseel Nama of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering will be named after her. Nama's discovery came as part of NASA's asteroid-hunting campaign. "I really wanted to take part in this campaign, which is a kind of competition, but NASA insisted that I recruit a team of three people.… Read More
Technion City Opens for Spring Semester
The Technion opened for the 2021 spring semester on Sunday, using a model of hybrid teaching – a combination of online and frontal teaching – in accordance with the Ministry of Health's restrictions and "green" guidelines. After a challenging year of online learning, students are returning to classrooms, campuses, and frontal learning after presenting a… Read More
The Quantum Edge
On the Cutting Edge: The Fastest, Most Complex, and Most Advanced Physical Research Tasneem Watad, a doctoral student in the Technion Faculty of Physics, uses the complexity of quantum computers as an advantage for research. Completing a bachelor's and master's degree in physics, and working towards a Ph.D. at the Technion is not a task… Read More
Time to Care
The COVID-19 pandemic may have created many obstacles, but it also provided opportunities for finding creative ways to overcome them. On January 14th, joint teams of students from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell Tech took part in the final event of a semester-long ideation course, where they presented technological solutions for… Read More
“No One Abandons Their Studies”
Hundreds of students recently received scholarships totaling NIS 1.7 million ($502,000 U.S.) through Technion’s Dean of Students Office. Valued at thousands of shekels each, the scholarships were granted with the support of Technion, the Technion Alumni Association, Technion Friends Societies in Israel and around the world, and external entities that included the Council for Higher… Read More