Honors to Academic Staff of the Weizmann Institute during 2005

Name

Department

Honor

Prof. Uri Alon Molecular Cell Biology Awarded the "Teva founders prize" for breakthroughs in bio-medical science
Prof. Brian Berkowitz Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Prof. Achi Brandt Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
Online announcement
Prof. David Cahen Materials and Interfaces Iris Visoly-Fisher in the Group of Prof. David Cahen - Awarded the Ormat Prize by the Israeli Section of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES)
Prof. Yadin Dudai Neurobiology Elected as the Yearly Volker-Henn Lecturer at the University of Zurich
Prof. Gregory Falkovich Physics of Complex Systems Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK
Prof. Deborah Fass Structural Biology Awarded the Wolf Foundation's Krill Prize for Outstanding Research
Prof. Uriel Feige Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Recipient of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Paper Prize
Prof. Moshe Feldman Plant Sciences Awarded an Honorary Membership of the Society of Genetics in Israel
Prof. Oded Goldreich Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Boaz Barak in the Group of Prof. Goldreich - Recipient of the Doctoral Dissertation Award by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Online announcement
Prof. David Harel Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Recipient of a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Rennes, France
Prof. Ora Kedem Biological Chemistry Elected as a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Online announcement
Dr. Gil Levkowitz Molecular Cell Biology Recipient of the Richard Heikilla Award for Young Researcher from the National Parkinson Foundation
Prof. Yitzhak Maron Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Elected as an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow, USA
Online announcement
Dr. Daniela Novick Molecular Genetics Co- recipient of the Milstein Award by the International Society For Interferon And Cytokine Research (ISICR)
Prof. Itamar Procaccia Chemical Physics Recipient of the Weizmann Prize from the Tel-Aviv Municipality
Prof. Michel Revel Molecular Genetics Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Jacob Sagiv Materials and Interfaces Awarded the Israel Chemical Society Prize
Prof. Israel Silman Neurobiology Awarded the Samuel and Paula Elkales Prize by the Jewish National Fund
Prof. Joel L Sussman Structural Biology Awarded the Samuel and Paula Elkales Prize by the Jewish National Fund
Prof. Reshef Tenne Materials and Interfaces Awarded the Kolthoff Prize in Chemistry by the Technion
Prof. Reshef Tenne Materials and Interfaces Recipient of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal
Prof. Reshef Tenne Materials and Interfaces Awarded the Excellence in Research Prize of the Israel Vacuum Society
Prof. Meir Wilchek Biological Chemistry Recipient of the EMET Prize in Chemistry Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation
Prof. Meir Wilchek Biological Chemistry Re-Elected as a Member of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Board of Governors
Prof. Meir Wilchek Biological Chemistry Re-Elected as a Member of Bar-Ilan University's Board of Governors
Prof. Meir Wilchek Biological Chemistry Elected as a Member of Sha'arei Mishpat College
Prof. Yosef Yarden Biological Regulation Recipient of a Merit Award of the National Cancer Institute, USA
Prof. Yosef Yarden Biological Regulation Re-Appointed as an academic scientific member of the International Board of Governors at the Technion, Haifa
Prof. Ada Yonath Structural Biology Elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences