Tag Archives: Prizes & Awards
Water From Air
H2OLL, an innovative Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) technology developed at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, has won the prestigious Water Europe Innovation Award for SMEs. The award was announced in June at the Water Innovation Europe 2021 Conference. Water Europe (WE) is a European technology platform for collaboration between research institutes, companies, and… Read More
Schmidt Science Fellowship
Dr. Ofer Neufeld, who completed three consecutive degrees at the Technion and recently completed his doctoral research in the Faculty of Physics, has been informed that he is the recipient of a Schmidt Science Fellowship. The Schmidt Science Fellows program, which was founded by Wendy and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to cultivate the next… Read More
EMET Prizes to Technion Architects
Architects Prof. Bracha Chyutin and Prof. Shamay Assif have won the EMET prize for architecture for 2020. Known as Israel's Nobel Prize, the EMET Prize is awarded for excellence in academic and professional achievements that have had far-reaching influence and have made a significant contribution to Israeli society. The prestigious awards, to the amount of… Read More
Shared Memory
Associate Professor Omri Barak of the Technion has won a prestigious grant for an international research project on memory in biology, computing, and materials Associate Professor Omri Barak, a member of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and a partner in the Network Biology Research Laboratories at the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences… Read More
Orr Zohar named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Orr Zohar, who is currently completing his master's degree in the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion, has been selected to continue his studies at Stanford University after being accepted to the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Zohar, 26, is the first Technion student to win the scholarship and is the first… Read More
“A Paragon of Love”
In honor of Israel's 73rd Independence Day, a beacon was lit this evening by Dr. Dror Dicker, Director of Internal Medicine and the Multidisciplinary Center for the Treatment of Obesity at Hasharon Hospital and a graduate of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (Class of 1991), The selection committee for this year's torch-bearers… Read More
Technion Graduate Wins the Abel Prize
Technion graduate Professor Avi Wigderson has received the 2021 Abel Prize. Awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, it is the most important prize in mathematics, and equivalent in its importance to the Nobel Prize for mathematicians. A faculty member at Princeton University, Prof. Wigderson shares the prize with his friend and colleague László Lovász… Read More
Medals of Distinction
3 March 2021 – The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation today granted eleven women from a diverse range of backgrounds and communities with its inaugural Medal of Distinction, ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March. The award, which will be granted annually to mark International Women’s Day, honors the outstanding contributions of women… Read More
New member of the US National Academy of Engineering
The American National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the admission this month of 106 new members and 23 international (non-American) members, including Dr. Yoelle Maarek, a graduate of the Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, who is now Vice President of Research at Alexa Shopping at Amazon Technion alumnus Dr. Yoelle Maarek grew… Read More
Smart mobility and new energy sources
The 2020 Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Global Innovation in Smart Mobility and Alternative Fuels for Transportation will be awarded to eight researchers, three of whom are Technion faculty members: Prof. Avner Rothschild, Prof. Gideon (Gidi) Grader and Dr. Yaniv Romano. The one-million-dollar prize is the world’s biggest award in the fields… Read More