The Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) will award this academic year a prize of $5,000 to an outstanding Ph.D. student whose research is in science or science education, who is in transition to start postdoctoral training in science education abroad. A special committee of WIS scientists will review the nominations and select the winner. The call is open to the nomination of candidates from all the universities in Israel.
Congratulations to Rachel Zaks for winning the 2024 Orly Kaplan prize for excellence in Ph.D. studies. The prize was granted for the study “Creating opportunities for problem solving in mathematics classes as a teaching practice related to anticipating students' solutions”, conducted under the mentorship of Prof. Boris Koichu.
The award ceremony will take place on April 1, 2024, 12:30-15:00.