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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology

Prof Charlotte Vogt (third from left) and researchers at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in the northern city of Haifa. Or Mayraz is first left. (Nitzan Zohar).
September 22, 2024, 2:26 pm
Technion startup aims to keep coastal industry systems clean while capturing CO₂
MOZAICO uses electrochemistry rather than chemicals to stop scale buildup in coastal cooling systems, converting CO2 into marketable calcium carbonate
By Sue Surkes
Students at Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus on the first day of the school year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 15, 2024, 1:26 pm
Three Israeli universities ranked among top 100 worldwide
2024 Shanghai Ranking lists Hebrew University, the Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science as among the best in the world, with Hebrew U. rising five places to 81st
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustration of the sunshade being developed by Cool Earth at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in northern Israel. (Youtube screenshot)
July 31, 2024, 9:57 pm
Israeli scientist proposes massive space sunshade to cut global temperatures by 1.5ºC
Yoram Rozen, head of Technion’s Space Research Institute, seeks $15 million to launch prototype; ‘If we can’t show that it can work technologically, then nobody else will do it”
By Sue Surkes
Plans envisage waterways flowing through neighborhoods in a rehabilitated Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Yaar Architects/Israel Lands Authority)
May 24, 2024, 11:26 am
Inside the plan to turn Haifa’s befouled bay into a livable urban hub rivaling Tel Aviv
The Gateway to the Bay project will replace polluting factories and oil storage tanks with 130,000 new homes, walkable streets, beaches, parkland, canals and clean, green jobs
By Sue Surkes
Students at Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 14, 2024, 12:52 am
Amid war, five Israeli universities ascend in international rankings
UAW-based report on top 2,000 universities places majority of Israeli research universities among the top 3 percent worldwide
By Gavriel Fiske
Composite image showing, from left to right, Prof. David Kazhdan, Prof. Maren R. Niehoff and Prof. Nathan Lineal of the Hebrew University. (courtesy)
April 11, 2024, 1:15 pm
Fourteen Israeli professors awarded top EU research grants
Researchers from the Hebrew University, the Technion, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute to each receive €2.5 million in funding from the European Research Council
By Gavriel Fiske
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February 28, 2024, 3:28 am
The Technion: Protecting Israel for 100 Years
“Imagine a Coke bottle flying several times faster than the speed of sound on an irregular course. Intercepting it seems far-fetched,” said Levin. 
A visualization of the space shield proposed by a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 6, 2024, 12:55 pm
Could parasols in space counter global warming? Israeli scientists want to find out
A team from the Technion is ready to build a prototype shield to block solar radiation; project could ultimately reduce Earth’s temperature by 1.5 Celsius in 2 years
By Elana Kirsh
Winners of the 2023 Climate Solutions Prize, awarded on January 25, 2024. From left: Prof. Yechezkel Kashin and Prof. Shanny Barath from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, northern Israel, Prof Brian Rosen from Tel Aviv University, and Prof. Menny Shalom from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel.
January 28, 2024, 2:58 pm
$1 million Climate Solutions Prize awarded to three groundbreaking technologies
Prize awarded by JNF Canada and KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund rewards work on sustainable building materials, green ammonia, and a replacement for lithium batteries
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, seen on October 19, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
January 16, 2024, 10:14 am
Amid swarm of stakeholders, planners begin brainstorming how to rebuild south
Officials, architects, environmentalists, academics and others start looking at ways to bring back devastated region, with some asking whether array of groups can work together
By Sue Surkes
Ben Gurion University of the Negev students work at a logistic center set up on campus, in an undated photo during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. (Courtesy)
November 7, 2023, 6:13 pm
Israeli universities step up to support students in reserves, war effort
Aside from grants and other aid, institutes of higher education open campuses for assistance efforts, evacuee lodging
By Gavriel Fiske
From left: Dr. Matan Fisher, Prof. Gil Leibowitz, and Prof. Avivit Cohen from Hadassah Medical Center (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)
August 17, 2023, 11:23 am
Israeli doctors treat hypoglycemia in lung cancer with breast cancer drug
Working with Technion researchers, endocrinologists and oncologists prove effectiveness of alpelisib in reversing severe hypoglycemia caused by large tumors
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A heart model grown from stem cells (screenshot courtesy of Tissue Dynamics)
August 8, 2023, 8:16 pm
Created from stem cells, Israeli researchers grow tiny, beating model of human heart
The size of a third of a grain of rice, organoid connected to sensors reveals previously unknown aspects of cardiac physiology
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Shock trauma specialist Prof. Avi Rivkind (center right) with members of a delegation from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2023, 11:03 am
Impressed by Israeli science, Black universities plan student and faculty exchanges
‘If you send one or two students to start, you are changing their lives,’ says president of South Carolina State University, who joined recent trip of historically Black colleges
By Renee Ghert-Zand
View of the port in the northern city of Haifa, July 31, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
July 5, 2023, 11:44 pm
Using electric algae, ancient proteins and more, start-ups seek to green the sea
National Center for Blue Economy showcases sustainable ocean tech at first Blue Tech Summit in Haifa Port
By Sue Surkes
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