Hebrew University Launches Expanded Einstein Archives Website

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME HEAVY WATER WITH YOUR COFFEE?

Hebrew U. Researchers Decipher the Sweet Taste of Heavy Water (Jerusalem, May 6, 2021)—A long-standing, unresolved puzzle concerns the taste of heavy water. Regular water has no distinct taste but rumors indicate that heavy water tastes sweet. Why is this so if heavy water, D2O, is...

Large-Scale Study Finds Strong Connection Between Corona and Strokes – Particularly in Younger Patients

(Jerusalem, April 29, 2021)—Ever since the coronavirus became a wide-spread global pandemic, medical researchers have sought to understand how the virus impacts other medical ailments, especially neurological ones. In early 2020, New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital reported that five younger...

HEBREW U. APPOINTS MONA KHOURY-KASSABRI AS FIRST-EVER ARAB WOMAN TO SERVE AS UNIVERSITY VICE PRESIDENT

Board of Trustees Re-elects Asher Cohen as University President (Jerusalem, April 28, 2021)—The Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) today announced that Professor Mona Khoury-Kassbari has been elected Vice President of Strategy and Diversity at HU. As part of her...