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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
May 14, 2018...
Students at Israel’s Hakfar Hayarok International School preparing bacteria experiments. Photo courtesy of Weizmann Institute of Science
The 6,000 miles between them made no difference when 200 students in Israel and in the Boston area jointly created evolution in test tubes. The 10-day science experiment helped them understand how antibiotic-resistant bacterial “superbugs” evolve.
The teens designed their experiments on Google Sheets, and these instructions were automatically carried out by a robot in a lab at the University of Massachusetts.
Jul 29, 2013...
A hungry dinosaur at the Clore Garden of Science, Weizmann Institute of Science. Photo by Daniel Chechik
The dinosaur exhibition at the Weizmann Institute of Science does not ignore the circus attraction of the huge, lost creatures, but it is meticulously faithful to scientific knowledge.
When the principal curator of the Natural History Museum in London was asked to guess how long it took to set up the exhibition "Dinosaurs — the Giants of the Past, the Science of the Future" in the Clore Garden of Science at the Weizmann Institute, she was somewhat hesitant. Finally she told her Israeli colleague, Dr. Naama Charit-Yaari, that from her familiarity with Israeli purposefulness she guessed that setting up such a complicated project took only two years in Israel.
Sep 17, 2007... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—September 17, 2007—Blue Planet, a curriculum package for middle school students written by Weizmann Institute scientists on the link between man and the environment, has won recognition by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a worldwide model in environmental studies. This international organization is promoting and financing the translation of the program into different languages, as well as its distribution throughout schools worldwide.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/video-gallery/the-nextgen-initiative/
Jun 07, 2016... Introducing NextGen, the American Committee's new initiative dedicated to inspiring the philanthropic leaders of tomorrow. The NextGen Committee recently held its inaugural “Science on Tap” event at City Winery in New York. This evening of science, networking, and wine tasting featured three stellar students from the Weizmann Institute's Feinberg Graduate School.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/making-science-and-family-fit/
Feb 05, 2010... Israeli structural biologist Michal Sharon has made some bold decisions in her young scientific career. After productively using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study protein structure during a Ph.D., she switched to structural mass spectrometry for her postdoc in the United Kingdom. Upon taking a tenure-track position at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot 3 years ago, she set out to create the first structural mass spectrometry lab in Israel. And when she wrote the proposal that won a European Research Council starting grant, she let her scientific ambition run free, asking herself, “What will I want to investigate ... if money was not a concern?”
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/gift-for-science/
Nov 11, 2005...
WHO GAVE IT: Albert Willner, retired orthopedic surgeon, Del Ray Beach, Fla.
WHO GOT IT: The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, New York
HOW MUCH: $20 million, paid within ten years
BY REQUEST: The gift will create an endowment to support scientific education and research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
YOUR NAME HERE: The Willner Family Leadership Institute
Apr 08, 2008... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 8, 2008—An innovative new study program for science and math teachers will soon be inaugurated at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Caesarea Program, made possible by the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation, will offer master’s degrees in science education to outstanding high school and middle school science and math teachers. The curriculum, prepared by Weizmann Institute faculty, will include studies designed to broaden and deepen scientific knowledge, meetings with scientists working at the cutting edge of scientific research, and practice in applying innovative approaches to teaching. Participants will also conduct research in the field of science teaching and gain firsthand experience in leading original educational initiatives.
Sep 19, 2017...
Abraham Druck spent a month at the Weizmann Institute of Science as part of the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI).
Last month, one of New Jersey’s budding scientists, Abraham (AJ) Druck of Englewood, 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 nearly 4,000 researchers making a global impact in areas ranging from health and medicine, to alternative energy, to space exploration.
Apr 06, 2016...
Photo Courtesy of The Gregory School
Editor’s Note: Gregory School junior and Chant reporter Tianyi Zhu is participating in The Gregory School’s physics trip to Israel and sending updates:
Our whole team is now on the plane to LA, ready to takeoff. We’ll then fly directly from LA to Tel Aviv. The flight is about fourteen hours. Our safe for the competition was disassembled into separate components and put into two carry-on suitcases.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/building-a-bridge-from-brooklyn-to-rehovot/
May 02, 2006...
The Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) hosted a gathering of alumni from Polytechnic University of Brooklyn, New York, and its extension in Israel. Held at the Weizmann Institute campus in Rehovot, the event marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the university and the 60th anniversary of the formation of Polytechnic’s Planning Committee.
Polytechnic is the second oldest private engineering and science institution in the U.S., and its Planning Committee helped establish WIS by expanding the Daniel Sieff Research Institute. The Planning Committee was created at the end of World War II under the chairmanship of Prof. Herman Mark, often called the “father of polymer science” and a close associate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who was known as, among other things, the “father of industrial fermentation.” In fact, as Prof. Mark states in his memoir, Dr. Weizmann personally asked him to serve as head of the Planning Committee. Another of the committee members was Ephraim Katzir, then Prof. Mark’s postdoctoral student, who would later become a Weizmann Institute professor and Israel’s fourth president.
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