Science, Medicine, & Education

NEW YORK (Press Release)– One hundred exemplary North American college graduates will be chosen to teach in underprivileged communities in Israel for a 10-month service program in May 2011, Masa Israel Journey announced today.  In order to address Israel’s educational inequity and the widespread underperformance of youth in low-income communities, Masa Israel Journey and the Israeli Ministry […]

BEER-SHEVA Israel (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed a unique technology that stabilizes an otherwise unstable form of calcium carbonate. This mineral form provides significantly higher biological absorption and retention rates than other sources presently used as dietary calcium supplements. Calcium is considered to be one of the most important

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Discovered by archaeologists in 1952, a 28-foot-high stone tower discovered on the edge of the town of Jericho has puzzled scientists ever since. Now, eleven centuries after it was built, Tel Aviv University archaeologists at the ancient site Tel Jericho are revealing new facts about the world’s first “skyscraper.” Recent computer-based

JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Prof. Danny Dolev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of seven new members appointed by the European Commission to the Scientific Council, the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC).  He is the first Israeli to serve on the council, which is composed of 22 distinguished scientists and scholars.  The

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– A low cost, nanometer-sized drug to treat chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers or burns, has been developed by a group of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School and others in the U.S. and Japan. Diabetes is a rapidly growing medical problem affecting close to three percent of the

MIAMI, Florida (Press Release) — Over 150 experts, representing many disciplines and fields, as well as a number of current and former government officials, participated in a recent conference on the U.S.-Israel special relationship held here.  The conference, sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and hosted by the Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Jewish

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Ask anyone who has ever tried to squash a skittering cockroach — they’re masters of quick and precise movement. Now Tel Aviv University is using their maddening locomotive skills to improve robotic technology too. Prof. Amir Ayali of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology says the study of cockroaches has

NEW YORK (Press Release)–In a letter Thursday to Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the college for rehiring Kristofer Petersen-Overton to teach a graduate course on the Middle East this spring.  After  Petersen-Overton was initially hired, the college was provided with evidence regarding his publications and professional background,

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Bilinguals findit easier to learn a third language, as they gain a better aptitude for languages, a new study from the University of Haifa reveals. Prof. Salim Abu-Rabia and Ekaterina Sanitsky of the Department of Special Education, who conducted the study, set out to examine what benefits bilingualism might have in

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Prof. Eran Rabani of Tel Aviv University’s School of Chemistry and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a new quantum mechanical effect with glass-forming liquids. They’ve determined that it’s possible to melt glass — not by heating it, but by cooling it to a temperature near Absolute Zero. This new

Israel and Europe Co-op in Space Exploration

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high.  Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons’ offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to look just like a favorite celeb.  But those albums only show how someone else’s liposuction, breast augmentation, or Beyonce bum enhancement turned