Real estate magnate and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman has announced a scholarship program to pay for American graduate students in the sciences to study in Israel.
The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program will provide more than $100 million in scholarships over the next 20 years, Zuckerman says.
File: Mortimer Zuckerman on January 29, 2013 at an event hosted by The New York Daily News, which he owns. (Wikipedia/MTA New York City Transit/Marc A. Hermann/CC BY 2.0)
It will provide funding for American graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to study at Israeli universities. They include Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
“At a time when collaboration is essential to advanced scientific research, this program gives the next generations of leading American and Israeli academics the ability to work together on cutting-edge research in ways that stand to benefit their fields for years to come,” Zuckerman said as he announced the initiative Monday at the Harvard Club of New York City.
— AP
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