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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.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/a-gathering-of-brave-and-brilliant-women/
May 08, 2012...
Standing, L-R: Dr. Noa Corem (Weinberg), Dr. Yael Artzy-Randrup, Dr. Maytal Toroker, Dr. Hilla Weidberg. Sitting, L-R: Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Prof. Varda Rotter, Dr. Ruth Scherz-Shouval, Dr. Rina Rosenzweig, Dr. Shlomit Greenberg.
People, as Weizmann Institute of Science President Prof. Daniel Zajfman often says, are our greatest natural resource. These are not just words; he is behind a push by the Institute to leverage the power of people—women as well as men.
Jan 27, 2008...
NEW YORK—January 7, 2008—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science announced that Lorry I. Lokey of San Francisco pledged $30 million to further international scientific education and research.
The funds will be used by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel for two major initiatives: the Lorry I. Lokey Pre-Clinical Research Facility and the Lorry I. Lokey Research School of Biochemical Sciences. The gift is the largest single contribution ever made to the American Committee in its 63-year history.
Feb 09, 2018...
Elena Meirzadeh, who is pursuing her doctorate at the Weizmann Institute of Science, is studying the properties of crystals with an eye toward applications ranging from airplane wing deicing to improving cloud-seeding techniques to increase rainfall. (Courtesy of Weizmann Institute)
When Elena Meirzadeh immigrated to Israel from Iran with her family at the age of 12, her priorities were perfecting her Hebrew and acclimating to life in a new country.
Mar 07, 2017... On February 28, 2017, American Committee donors of all giving levels were invited to join a special conference call with CEO Marshall S. Levin. More than 100 donors from across the country participated. Mr. Levin spoke on the topic of “Science at the Leading Edge: Latest Breakthroughs from the Weizmann Institute of Science.” He opened with an overview of the Weizmann Institute and its reputation as a relatively small institution with “an outsized impact” on the world. He then discussed the Institute’s game-changing research on the aging brain, as well as the work of its Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine. Through these and other initiatives, the Institute seeks to improve the quality of life of every person on the planet.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/video-gallery/weizmann-institute-2015-year-at-a-glance/
Nov 25, 2015... Prof. Daniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute president, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the campus as we look back at its amazing progress in 2015. One of the Institute's ongoing priorities is the recruitment of the best new scientists – in 2015, it brought aboard...
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/video-gallery/a-tribute-to-william-z-novick/
Oct 03, 2007... Honoring 40 years of service by Rabbi William Z. Novick, who led the American Committee's Chicago Region, this video features philanthropist Lester Crown; Prof. Haim Harari, former Weizmann Institute president; Dr. Norman Lamm of Yeshiva University; and Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence, founder of the summer science institute that bears her name.
Mar 10, 2014...
Weizmann Institute scientists, Clalit Health Services physicians and legal advisor, and information system experts from both organizations recently participated in the first meeting of its kind, intended to promote collaborative research that will enable the development of new models of medical intervention, as well as advance the field of personalized medicine.
The meeting was sponsored by the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, which was recently established on the Weizmann Institute campus at a cost of $120 million. Participants explored, among other things, ways in which medical data and research provided by Clalit Health Services can be used, with the aim of advancing both scientific research and medicine.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/the-tomorrow-lab-summit/
May 14, 2013...
“The planets have a beat,” said Dr. Oded Aharonson, snapping his fingers. Skyped in from Israel into a Manhattan boardroom on May 10, Aharonson is a scientist who has operated the rover on Mars. Some of his pictures of Titan are among those that have given us, on earth, a more accurate perspective on what it means to live in a solar system.
He held up a basketball, partly because he needed a round object to show the oscillations of the earth’s climate cycles and partly because the Tomorrow Lab Summit was being hosted by and is a community partner of NBA Cares. NBA Commissioner David Stern was one of the two men at the head of the table and the other was Marshall Levin, the President and CEO of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, the organization that created the Tomorrow Lab project to support the mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
Jun 17, 2011... Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, interviews Prof. Daniel Zajfman, president of the Weizmann Institute, during the 2011 gala held by the American Committee's New York Region. Mr. Heyward asked Prof. Zajfman not only about science—although that was eloquently addressed—but about his Brussels childhood, early interest in science, and more.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/father-runs-and-writes-to-help-his-children/
Jul 02, 2013...
Jonathan Hersch and his son, Ben, practice for a race to benefit Ben and Shira’s Endowment Fund for Diabetes Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Photos courtesy Jonathan Hersch
For his entire life, Jonathan Hersch has been running, as a track star and marathon racer. But now his goal is beyond the finish line.
The Edison resident is the father of two children with diabetes, and he is donating part of the proceeds of a book he wrote on these two facets of his life — Relax and Go: On Running and Surviving Parental Trauma — to help advance research on the disease being conducted in Israel.
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