Judith and Kobi Richter received the Tel Aviv University's Remanciano Award * Judith and Kobi Richter received the Tel Aviv University Remanciano Award * Chinese students will study at the Technion
Intel awarded scholarships to 46 outstanding students
The winners: 23 bachelor's degree students, 10 master's degree students and 13 doctoral students from the leading universities in Israel.
In the last decade, Intel awarded scholarships to 450 outstanding students
Intel awarded prizes worth NIS 256,000 to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and science, as part of the Intel Awards program, which is being held for the tenth year in a row. The purpose of the program is to encourage personal excellence and excellence in studies and research among students studying for bachelor's degrees and advanced degrees at universities across the country.
The awards were given to 46 outstanding students in a festive ceremony held at Cinema City in the presence of Intel Israel President Molly Aden and senior academics.
To the winners, of which 23 are undergraduate students, 10 are graduate students and 13 are doctoral students from the leading universities in Israel. For a decade, the Intel Awards program has been promoting the value of excellence among students in the fields of engineering, technology and science, just as it sees great importance in promoting higher education, which is the basis for the continued growth of the Israeli economy.
As part of the program, Intel awarded scholarships to 450 students in the last decade. The amount of the scholarships this year is 4,000 NIS, for a bachelor's degree 6,000 NIS for a master's degree and 8,000 NIS for doctoral students.
Judith and Kobi Richter received the Remanciano Award of Tel Aviv University
They announced that they would double the amount of the award and donate it to scholarships in the humanities and philosophy Kobi Richter: "I would prefer to see students studying for their first degree in a general BA, which combines philosophy and literature
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Dr. Judith and Dr. Kobi Richter, the founders of Medinol, received the Hugo Remenciano Economic Prize at Tel Aviv University today - and announced that they will double the amount of the prize in the amount of $10,000 and donate it to a scholarship fund for students in the field of humanities and philosophy.
The award was given to the founders of Medinol for their extraordinary influence and contribution to the economic, industrial and technological development of the State of Israel, and as special recognition for making Medinol a leader in the field of interventional cardiology. In the reasons, the entrepreneurial sense of Dr. Judit Richter and her commitment to improving Israeli society by running voluntary projects were noted. and her willingness to share her extensive information with new generations of Israeli business leaders, entrepreneurs and inventors. The many achievements of Dr. Jacob Richter and his great influence on the field of heart and blood vessels were also noted.
In his words of thanks upon receiving the award, Dr. Kobi Richter said that he would have preferred to see students studying in their first degree a general BA, which combines philosophy and literature, which are essential for developing systematic thinking and for studying change, together with physics studies, which would provide this student with a box Tools for the scientific world.
"The basis of all life sciences and the inspiration for a constant process of change, is reading literature," said Richter. "Reading literature is the best basis for those who want to understand what change is and bring about it. Change is the way to invent new things. In reading, there is a series of changes: you start with a letter and a word, and change them into a symbol, and into a perception - on the way to the next change, which creates a story and a world of concepts."
Dr. Judith Richter, stood by her words of thanks for the close relationship between the biomed industry and academia. "Product development requires a huge investment - and medical products require research. She said that in addition to the 100 patents that the company has already registered in the US and 30 others that are in the approval process, Medinol is preparing for the expected presentation in 2015 of a new support (stent), coated with biological materials, in a coating technology that, in its estimation, will bring about a revolution in the field the whole
The chairman of the university's board of trustees, Prof. Jacob Frankel, who himself received the Hugo Remanciano award in 2000, thanked Remanciano's son and daughter, Gerard Remanciano, and Dr. Monique Berel, who continue the tradition of supporting the university, in the spirit of their father's activity. Prof. Frankel pointed out that the Board of Trustees discussed ensuring the continuity of family commitment to the university, in the spirit of the Remanciano family.
Dr. Monique Berl focused on Medinol's success in saving lives, one stent after another - and noted that the awarding of the award is an appreciation of the exceptional achievements of the Richter couple as individuals - and the Israeli industry in general.
Maurice Levy, who led the French advertising company Publicis to the status of a global giant, and who last night (6.6) received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, told about his personal acquaintance with Hugo Ramenciano. "He was an unusual person, paradoxically. He, Hugo, fits too many descriptions: undefinable or unsortable. He was good, efficient, and successful in his work. He brilliantly completed every project - but beyond all these he was sensitive to others, and had a deep generosity. He was connected to his Jewish roots, to Israel - and he expressed these connections out loud. He was rare in his giving - and in his ability to convince people around him to give and donate."
Doctoral students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev won first place in the competition for groundbreaking research in the field of neuroscience at the President's Conference
Doctoral students from the Laboratory of Experimental Neurosurgery at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, under the direction of Prof. Alon Friedman, won first place in a competition for groundbreaking research in the field of neuroscience in Israel, which took place last week as part of the President's Conference in the Nation Buildings in Jerusalem.
The research of the group of doctoral students from Ben-Gurion University focuses on acquired epilepsy, which is a common complication following brain injuries such as contusions, strokes, cancerous tumors, and more. The laboratory in which they work focuses on preventing this disease and developing diagnostic methods to identify patients at risk.
Their research showed that a failure of vascular function, and in particular a breach in the blood-brain barrier (BDM, a complex structure that regulates the passage of substances between the blood and the brain tissue), plays a central role in the development of epilepsy following a brain injury. While collaborating with researchers from the Medical University of Berlin and the University of Berkeley, the researchers from Ben-Gurion University discovered that hacking the MDM itself damages nerve function and causes brain damage. They also discovered that the pathological process following the rupture of the DM begins as a result of the spilling of albumin, the most common protein in the blood, from the blood vessels into the marrow tissue. Their findings show that albumin binds to receptors on glial cells ("support cells" in the brain) and activates a specific mechanism that controls inflammatory response and nerve excitation.
Based on these discoveries, the researchers identified a mechanism-oriented pharmacological method to prevent epilepsy following head injuries, and were able to demonstrate its effectiveness in animals. At the same time, they developed imaging methods (based on magnetic resonance) that enable the reliable detection of disorders in the functioning of the brain in patients after a brain injury. These methods are designed to identify patients at risk of epileptic seizures and other brain complications as candidates for preventive treatment.
A Chinese education fund will award scholarships totaling eight million dollars to Chinese students who will study at the Technion
The agreement was signed in the presence of the mayors of Haifa and Hedan, the president of the Technion and the donor
A Chinese education fund - Hanqing International Education Foundation - will award scholarships totaling eight million dollars to Chinese students who will study at the Technion. The agreement was signed today in the presence of Attorney Yona Yahav, Mayor of Haifa, Professor Peretz Lavi, President of the Technion, Chinese businessman Zhao Hanqing and Hui Jian, Mayor of Handan, the donor's hometown.
According to the agreement, the fund will select outstanding students who will be admitted to the Technion after meeting its strict criteria. The students who will be selected will be graduate students (master's degree and doctorate) in the first stage. They will receive scholarships and annual support in the amount of 35 thousand dollars (each), which will cover all their expenses during the year. Initially, the fund will support five students each year, and this number will gradually increase until it reaches 25 in five years. A board of directors that will appoint six people, three from the Technion and three from the foundation, will oversee its activities. The validity of the agreement is 20 years.
The president of the Technion, Professor Peretz Lavie, thanked the Chinese businessman Zhao Henzing and said "This is a historic agreement that will allow Chinese students to study and research at the Technion. The Technion played an important role in building Israel, and I am confident that the Chinese students will receive tools at the Technion that will help them in the development of their country."
Yona Yahav, the mayor of Haifa, welcomed the agreement and said: "Haifa is the city with the most Nobel laureates in Israel." Shanghai is our twin city and we would love to expand our collaborations with the sheath city as well. We are in the middle of the process of building a life sciences park in the city and making Haifa the number one university city in Israel."
Hui Jian, mayor of Handan, said: "The agreement is the beginning of greater cooperation between Haifa and the city of Handan, and between China and Israel. Handan is a city where ten million inhabitants live, and we intend to carry out an industrial transformation and move from industries based on energy, mines and textiles, to knowledge-intensive industries with an emphasis on computing and biomedical industries. We see the Chinese students who will study at the Technion as the leaders of the process."
Zhao Henzing thanked the Technion for the cooperation and said that it is not for nothing that the Technion is among the best technological universities in the world and he is confident that the outstanding Chinese students who will arrive following the signing of the agreement will make the most of it and contribute the knowledge they will acquire to the developing economy of his country.
The Technion's vice president for public relations and resource development, Professor Boaz Golani, said that he is sure that the Chinese students who will come to the Technion will strengthen the cooperation between the two countries.
Recently, Ms. Zhao Yanping, the Chinese ambassador to Israel, was a guest at the Technion. She spoke about the growing technological cooperation between China and Israel and the potential inherent in the academic cooperation between the Technion and China. "Recently, registration for the summer semester at universities in China was closed. Out of nine million applicants, seven million were accepted," she said proudly. "The Technion is a world-class technological institution," she added. "If I could go over my life again, I would want to be a student here."
