Prize-Winning Research On Solubility By Hebrew University Doctoral Student Yields Promise For Pharmaceutical, Other Industries

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

Jerusalem, Dec. 15, 2011 – A method for increasing solubility (the ability of one substance to dissolve into another), developed by a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Casali...

Attorney Daniel Jacobson awards first scholarships of new one million shekel fund in Hebrew literature

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

Prof. Ben-Sasson (left) and Vice-President Gillon present Daniel Jacobson with a hand-bound facsimile copy of the Hebrew poem ‘I Didn’t Win Light In A Windfall’ by Hayyim Nahman Bialik in the...

Potential Anti-Cancer Treatment Method Wins Kaye Award For Hebrew University Chemistry Student

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

Jerusalem, Dec. 19, 2011 – A strategy for inhibiting a protein that is associated with the spread of cancer has won for a Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ph.D. student in chemistry one of this...

Eight new winners receive total of 12 million euros

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

Six of the Hebrew University ERC starting research grant winners (from left): Dr. Eran Meshorer, Prof. Ido Braslavsky, Prof. Orna Kupferman, Prof. Itamar Simon, Dr. Einav Gross and Dr. Ehud...

Prof. Jacob Bekenstein wins 2012 Wolf Prize in physics

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

January 11, 2012: Prof. Jacob Bekenstein, a theoretical physicist at the Hebrew University who shed new light on black holes, has been named the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize....

Israel Prize for mathematics and computer science for 2012 to Prof. David Kazhdan

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

January 25, 2012: Israel’s Minister of Education Gideon Saar has announced that the 2012 Israel Prize for Mathematics and Computer Science will go to Prof. David Kazhdan of the Hebrew...

Hebrew University brain sciences researcher Haim Sompolinsky receives Swartz Prize in US from Society for Neuroscience

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012

Jerusalem, Dec. 4, 2011 — The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Prof. Haim Sompolinsky of the Edmond and Lily Safra...

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