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Weizmann Grants Help Young Women PhDs Rise in Ranks as Scientists
Weizmann Grants Help Young Women PhDs Rise in Ranks as Scientists

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/weizmann-grants-help-young-women-phds-rise-in-ranks-as-scientists/

Jul 07, 2015... Weizmann Institute of Science. (photo credit:MICHAEL JACOBSON/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
Eleven young women scientists who have excelled in their doctoral studies have received grants from a unique program of Rehovot’s Weizmann Institute of Science. Since 2007, a total of 96 awards, each worth $40,000, have been granted to young women PhDs who plan a scientific career.
The program is designed to advance women in the fields of natural sciences (physics, chemistry, and the life sciences) and the exact sciences (mathematics and computer science). The aim of the program is to close the significant gap that still exists between men and women in high academic ranks.

TAGS: Awards, Women, Education, Philanthropy

Israeli Woman is ""Europe's Top Young Researcher""
Israeli Woman is ""Europe's Top Young Researcher""

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/israeli-woman-is-europe-s-top-young-researcher/

Mar 28, 2012... Courtesy Lam Velitz Studios
Multinational cosmetics firm L’Oreal and UNESCO have named a Weizmann Institute biologist working in the field of probiotics, commonly referred to as beneficial bacteria, “Europe’s top young researcher.” For her work in researching probiotics to treat disease, Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky will receive a two-year $40,000 postdoctoral scholarship.
During the past three years, young Israeli women have been able to apply for the program, which began 14 years ago and aims at promoting research among women starting out their scientific careers. There are only 15 annual fellowship winners around the world.

TAGS: Awards, Women, Education, Biology, Immune system, Bacteria

American Committee Launches 75th Anniversary Campaign
American Committee Launches 75th Anniversary Campaign

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/american-committee-launches-75th-anniversary-campaign/

Nov 29, 2017... NEW YORK, NY—November 29, 2017—At its Leadership Retreat and Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science announced the launch of the public phase of its 75th anniversary campaign, Transforming Tomorrow: Accelerate the Next 75 Years of Scientific Breakthroughs. The campaign aims to raise $225 million in support of the Weizmann Institute, one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary research institutions located in Rehovot, Israel.

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Phoenix Teen Conducts Scientific Research in Israel
Phoenix Teen Conducts Scientific Research in Israel

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Aug 22, 2019... Kyle Polen is pictured here with the other U.S. Bessie Lawrence participants. He is on the right, sitting on the branch of the tree in the maroon shirt.
Last month, local budding scientist Kyle Polen returned from four weeks on the Weizmann Institute’s campus in Rehovot, Israel. The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world’s leading scientific research institutions, with hundreds of researchers making a global impact in areas ranging from health and medicine, to alternative energy, to space exploration.

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First Class of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Centre, Rehovot, Graduates
First Class of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Centre, Rehovot, Graduates

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Jun 30, 2016... Dr. Ronen Mir (center) and the teachers of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Centre, Rehovot
The graduation ceremony of the first class of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Centre, Rehovot, took place on June 29 in the Clore Garden of Science on the Weizmann Institute of Science campus. Participating were Weizmann Institute of Science President Prof. Daniel Zajfman, Rehovot Deputy Mayor Zohar Blum and Ness Ziona Mayor Yossi Shavo. Also present were the 207 twelfth-graders who had completed their final matriculation exam in physics. “When you learn physics,” said Prof. Zajfman, “you are learning a way of thinking. Graduates of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Centre, Rehovot, can now do anything they desire. Special thanks to the most important people – the teachers,” he continued. “Teaching is the only profession that allows all the other professions to exist. Without people who commit themselves to helping our children to build their futures, we would not succeed in attaining ours.”

TAGS: Community, Education, Physics

Young Scientists from Japan to Colorado Get Taste of Israel at Summer Program
Young Scientists from Japan to Colorado Get Taste of Israel at Summer Program

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/young-scientists-from-japan-to-colorado-get-taste-of-israel-at-summer-program/

Aug 21, 2018... From left, Lior Benizri of Brussels, Ramon Castaneda of Mexico, Aleix Segui of Barcelona and Karna Morey of Durham, North Carolina tackle a problem in a physics lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science. (Weizmann Institute)
This story is sponsored by the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science.
REHOVOT, Israel — One hot day this summer, 18-year-old Aleix Segui of Barcelona walked around an academic campus in this central Israeli city wearing a gray T-shirt with a mathematical equation on the front.

TAGS: Culture, Community, Education

2018 International Safe-Cracking Tournament
2018 International Safe-Cracking Tournament

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/video-gallery/2018-international-safe-cracking-tournament/

Apr 17, 2018... The Davidson Institute of Science Education’s International Physics Tournament challenges teams of high school students from around the world to design impenetrable safes. Each spring, the teams travel to the Weizmann campus in Israel, where they compete to unlock one another’s safes by solving the underlying physics riddles. On March 20-21, 2018, six teams—hailing from the Atlanta Jewish Academy in Atlanta, GA; Bruriah High School in Elizabeth, NJ; Green Valley High School in Henderson, NV; the Gregory School in Tucson, AZ; the Emery/Weiner School in Houston, TX; and Rancho High School in Las Vegas, NV—represented the United States at the 23rd annual competition. The American students joined other teams from countries such as England, Argentina, Romania, Canada, and Angola.

TAGS: Community, Education, Physics

Attracting Women to Science
Attracting Women to Science

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/attracting-women-to-science/

Sep 14, 2017... Weizmann Institute mentor David Bassan, with his back to the camera, split T-cells in the laboratory with student lab partners Tzippora Chwat, center, and Yee Kwan Lee.
Dissecting worms to understand how they regenerate was Tzippora Chwat’s first science project in middle school. The Cedarhurst resident found the flatworms she had to work with disgusting.
“When we got the planaria” — a variety of flatworm — “it was grossing me out,” Chwat said. “My mom said, ‘Calm down.’ She always knows how to help me.” Lara Chwat, a tax attorney, also reviews her daughter’s science papers. Thanks in part to that parental support, Chwat, 19, is making the most of her interest in science. She is a graduate of Yeshiva University High School for Girls, and was one of 19 American students chosen to take part in research as part of the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute at the prestigious Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

TAGS: Culture, Community, Women, Education

A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/a-day-in-the-life/

Sep 08, 2016... Last week I shared with you a love story I wrote to science. I’m #sorrynotsorry, I just can’t contain how awesome I think it is to unlock the secrets of the natural world. It was amazing to see how many of you share this love, wonder, and excitement. Except, well, in the words of one facebook reader, “You make me want to love science also! I could just never work in it because of all the equations…”

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Winners of Chinese Science Contest Choose Israel Visit as Prize
Winners of Chinese Science Contest Choose Israel Visit as Prize

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/winners-of-chinese-science-contest-choose-israel-visit-as-prize/

Aug 13, 2015... The Chinese flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Nineteen teenagers who won a prestigious science competition in China are scheduled to visit Israel next week as their prize. The winning group was given its choice of travel destinations and opted to attend a special 10-day workshop hosted by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.
The Chinese teenagers will be accompanied by teachers, journalists, and Beijing government officials. They will attend the Smart-Up Science Youth Camp, a collaboration between the Weizmann Institute’s Davidson Institute of Science Education and Shirat Enterprises, which promotes joint high-tech ventures between Israeli and Chinese companies. A similar science summer camp was held in 2014.

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