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For 40 years, the ISEF Foundation has been a partner with the Weizmann Institute, providing scholarships for minority Israelis to pursue higher education in the sciences. In recognition of these decades of collaboration, we present three Weizmann graduates - successful scientists all - who benefited from an ISEF scholarship.
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The magazine Physics World has announced that research by Weizmann Institute scientists that revealed a fundamental principle of particle physics is one of its ""10 highly commended breakthroughs"" of 2014. The work, by Dr. Roee Ozeri and colleagues, involves isolating the magnetic interactions of electrons – something scientists have been attempting for decades.
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Prof. Ada Yonath believed that the ribosome was crucial and must be studied - despite the fact that the world's best labs had given up trying to do so. She pursued her idea over decades, and was the first scientist to crystallize the ribosome, later deciphering its structure—and, in 2009, she became the fourth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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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.
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2017 marks a decade since the Weizmann Institute took action to bridge science's gender gap by establishing the Israel National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science. The program's success is quantifiable and inspirational – and good for women, for science, for the Weizmann Institute, for Israel … for the world.
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Recipients of the Institute's award for women postdocs met with Prof. Varda Rotter and philanthropic supporters to discuss science, work-life balance, and how the award reinforces the importance of encouraging talented female scientists.
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The Institute's postdoc award for women in science, funded by generous donors, supports talented Israeli women such as Dr. Michal Leskes. The award meant she could do her postdoc at Cambridge; today, at the Weizmann Institute, her work includes improving the lithium-ion batteries we use for everything from cell phones to electric cars.
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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.
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SpaceIL is a nonprofit that aims to put Israel's first spacecraft on the moon as it competes for Google's LunarX Prize. In this article on Space.com, SpaceIL CEO Eran Privman and investigator Avi Barliya, along with mission scientist Prof. Oded Aharonson of the Weizmann Institute, write about the moon shot, about Israel joining the space race, and about what they're doing that's different.
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After earning his master's at Weizmann's Feinberg Graduate School, Eran Hodis, 29, discovered two of the most common genetic mutations in all of cancer. Now an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard and MIT, he credits Weizmann—and in particular, his mentors Profs. Eran Segal and Joel Sussman—with launching his scientific career.
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