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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
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Oct 12, 2011...
Ada Etil Yonath
X-ray crystallographer currently at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. She won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the structure and function of the ribosome. Yonath was born in 1939 in Jerusalem to a poor family. Her father died when she was 11 years old, and Yonath helped support her mother and younger sister. Yonath was the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel prize and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
May 19, 2009... NEW YORK, NY—May 19, 2009—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science was recognized as a Bronze Winner by the 29th Annual Telly Awards. This is the second Telly, one of the most recognized awards for video and film productions, won by the American Committee in the past three years. The award was presented to a film shown at the 2008 New York Gala entitled, Dor L’ Dor: Honoring the Generations. The film pays tribute to and serves as a lasting legacy for three families’ multigenerational philanthropic support of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Funding for this film, in addition to previous ones, was granted to the American Committee by Arlyn Imberman, who served as producer.
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Mar 07, 2016...
South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon (center) and two members of the winning team from Jerusalem’s Pelech Religious Experimental High School for Girls
A class of 9th-grade girls from Jerusalem were the winners of this year’s Ilan Ramon Space Olympics for junior high school students. In addition to receiving a telescope for their school, they and the students from the other 11 classes that reached the final round of the competition had a day at the Weizmann Institute of Science that included a talk from a female astronaut – South Korea’s Yi So-yeon.
Apr 22, 2009...
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 22, 2009—The Israel Presidents and Prime Ministers Memorial Prize was awarded to the Weizmann Institute of Science by President Shimon Peres for preserving the heritage of Israel’s first president, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The Institute was honored for initiating a program that brings outstanding young scientists living abroad back to Israel.
Dr. Maya Schuldiner of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Molecular Genetics, one of the 34 scientists who joined the Institute faculty during the past three years, said: “Six months ago, my husband Oren (who has also become a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute) and I returned to Israel after our postdoctoral studies in San Francisco. Even though we enjoyed living in this beautiful city which has some of the best universities in the world, not a day went by that we didn’t miss Israel. Other Israelis we met there also missed home. To my disappointment, and to theirs, many of them will not return home, as this would jeopardize their job satisfaction, their standard of living, and the level of education for their children. The Weizmann Institute enables us to engage in world-class science—with the same equipment and under the same conditions as those available at the best universities in the world—without giving up on our identities, without losing the possibility of raising our children as Israelis, and without having to miss our country. If only as many young Israeli scientists as possible could be as lucky as we are, and be able to return home.”
May 20, 2012...
Soyeun has been involved in scientific research during the past few years. She began research at the University of Colorado during her junior year, studying nanoparticle applications. Throughout last summer, she worked as a research assistant at the Children's Hospital, studying mineral deficiency in developing countries.
Recently, she was accepted to the 44th Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute as one of 19 Americans. Through the program, she is receiving a full scholarship to conduct scientific research in July at the Weizmann Institute in Israel with 74 other students from all over the world.
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Nov 01, 2008...
This year's top institutions give researchers more than a place to do great science. They offer the opportunity to nurture, and be nurtured in return.
Starting a new job isn’t easy, even if you are Ron Weiss, an innovator in the emerging field of synthetic biology. When Weiss arrived at Princeton University seven years ago, straight from completing his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the young bioengineer had never been a principal investigator, much less set up a lab from scratch. Fortunately, as soon as Weiss arrived at Princeton, ranked No. 2 on this year’s Best Places to Work in Academia survey, Jim Sturm, a senior electrical engineer, was appointed as his “big brother” by the department chair. “I could turn to him for questions about grants, managing the lab, trying to think about research directions,” says Weiss, “It was wonderful.”
May 19, 2019...
James Gertler, trustee of The Zuckerman Institute, and Richard Lester, associate provost for International Activities at MIT, launch the the MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund, May 2019 (The Zukerman Institute)
A fund launched by the Mortimer Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program seeks to match faculty members from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and seven Israeli academic institutions in an effort to promote the “next generation of groundbreaking research” in sciences and technology.
Feb 05, 2020... Jerusalem, January 27, 2020 — The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH) announced today the 2020 Laureates of the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel. The Blavatnik Awards recognize outstanding, innovative scientists at the early stages of their careers for both their extraordinary achievements and their promise for future discoveries. The prizes are awarded to researchers aged 42 and younger for their groundbreaking work in the disciplines of Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Physical Sciences & Engineering.
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Oct 09, 2013...
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—October 9, 2013—The Weizmann Institute of Science extends its hearty congratulations to the new winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013. Two of the three new laureates have strong ties to the Weizmann Institute, and their work on the use of computers to map chemical reactions of large molecules such as enzymes on the atomic scale was first developed at Weizmann.
Profs. Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt began their scientific collaboration in the 1960s at the Weizmann Institute, where Prof. Warshel was a doctoral student. The two of them worked with the late Prof. Shneior Lifson in the Department of Chemical Physics. Together, they developed a computer program that ran on the Institute’s Golem computer – a powerful device in those days – to model molecules. This program had special relevance for large biological molecules.
Oct 19, 2015...
Richard Price
The 800 guests at the Fairmont Hotel were restless when Richard Price took the stage to accept his honors from the Weizmann Institute of Science, a research university in Israel supported by numerous Chicago business executives.
The crowd already had sat through a Q&A panel of scientists talking about the Israel-based organization's work—all while the Cubs game was being broadcast from New York.
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