{"id":84314,"date":"2018-02-12T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-outstanding-teacher\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T19:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:33:30","slug":"the-outstanding-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-outstanding-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outstanding Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technion President: \u201cDuring the seven years in which the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education has been awarded, there has been a marked improvement in the quality of teaching at Technion\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Chairperson of the Technion Students Association Omer Amit: \u201cYanai Prize recipients provide students with something that they can\u2019t learn from a computer \u2013 independent and creative thinking and a recognition of the beauty of the study material\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Group picture (from right to left): Professor Dan Geiger, Assistant Professor Ram Band, Associate Professor Gil Alexandrowicz, Associate Professor Josue Sznitman, Assistant Professor Mahmood Jabareen, Professor Hagit Attiya, Professor Adam Shwartz, Dr. Lina Lavie, Moshe and Rachel Yanai, Omer Amit and Oded Rabinovitch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education was awarded for the seventh consecutive year to five outstanding Technion professors and to the Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In addition to the prizes for excellence, an Educational Initiatives Scholarship and the Yanai Honorable Mention in Education were also awarded.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ceremony was attended by Moshe and Rachel Yanai, Executive Senior Vice President Prof. Adam Shwartz, Executive <\/span>Vice President for Academic Affairs<\/span> Prof. Hagit Attiya, representatives of Technion\u2019s management, the <\/span>prize winners and their families, professors and students.\u00a0The prestigious prize was awarded for the seventh year in a row \u201cin honor of and appreciation for members of the academic faculty who set an example through their continuous contribution to teaching and learning and their efforts to strengthen Technion students\u2019 involvement and sense of belonging.\u201d The ceremony was hosted by Prof. Alon Wolf from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, who received the Yanai Prize in 2014.The 2017 Yanai Prize recipients are:<\/span><\/p>\n