Three updates from the the Weizmann Institute: Japan and Israel combine forces to advance brain research; new findings show that autistic brains are nonconformist; Peruvian schools adopt Weizmann's Blue Planet science education curriculum.
January 21, 2015
The American Committee received a $70,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program to support student training at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute. Weizmann's graduate school is one of 34 organizations to receive new grants from this program.
January 13, 2015
Six distinguished figures from the worlds of art and science are to receive honorary doctorates from the Weizmann Institute of Science: Prof. Marvin L. Cohen, Prof. Stanley Fischer, Lia Koenig Stolper, diabetes researcher Prof. Jesse Roth, Prof. Simon Schama, and Dr. Herbert Winter. Read more about these deserving individuals.
November 09, 2014
Over 40 teams from around the world competed in the Weizmann Institute's 19th International Safecracking Tournament. The competition challenges high school students to use their knowledge of physics and their imagination to create their own safe, and break into those of other teams.
October 30, 2014
Prof. Daniella Goldfarb addresses the ongoing need to have more women scientists in high-level scientific careers – and how the Institute's National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science is helping make this happen. Also speaking to this issue are (in order of appearance): Prof. Nirit Dudovich, Dr. Michal Rivlin, Dr. Michal Sharon, Prof. Varda Rotter, and Dr. Noam Stern-Ginossar.
October 29, 2014
Haaretz visits the Weizmann Institute's campus, where an interactive exhibition on how our brains work is underway. While the Institute has a globally renowned neuroscience department, the exhibit – ""Work Your Brain!"" – involves a great deal more play than work.
September 23, 2014
Forbes reports on the state of women's advancement, and how its future will necessarily include men. An interview with Claudia Chan, founder of the S.H.E. Summit, a global conference on women's rights, sheds light on what she's learned from men about how to involve them in the women's movement; she cites the American Committee's Marshall Levin on STEM education.
September 11, 2014
The National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science – the runaway success that provides funding for talented Israeli female scientists to pursue postdoctoral research abroad – is now seven years old, and the numbers are coming in. 27 women have now completed the program – and 22 of them, or more than 80%, now hold faculty positions in Israel.
At this TEDx event at the Weizmann Institute, planetary scientist Prof. Oded Aharonson takes on climate change by asking two questions: to what extent is climate change about what we do the earth, and to what extent is it about what the itself earth does (by moving, etc.)? After all, Earth's rotation around the sun is not static. Neither, of course, are we unpredictable humans.
August 21, 2014
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