Dr. Celia Zwillenberg-Fridman and Dr. Kobi Abramson The roots of Celia Zwillenberg-Fridman’s giving to the Weizmann Institute are literally in the... Date: September 25, 2016
New Omenn Chair The first incumbent of the Dr. Gil Omenn and Martha Darling Professorial Chair in Molecular... Date: July 31, 2016
MIT’s Prof. Barbara Liskov The 12th Weizmann Women & Science Award-winner is an American computer scientist whose ideas... Date: April 3, 2016
Poetic justice Today, most everyone takes it for granted that cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke are bad... Date: March 27, 2016
Dr. Stavros Bashiardes Dr. Stavros Bashiardes is a geneticist specializing in the effects of HIV infections on the gut... Date: March 27, 2016
Wanderlust for a cure Wade Thompson was a entrepreneur from New Zealand whose foundation is accellerating a major... Date: February 28, 2016
Morris Kahn Morris Kahn may be best known in Israel as the founder of Amdocs, one of Israel’s largest, most... Date: February 4, 2016
Harry (Zvi) Lipkin Prof. Harry (Zvi) Lipkin passed away on September 15, 2015. Lipkin has been one of the leading... Date: February 4, 2016
A transformational gift American business leader and philanthropist Mortimer B. Zuckerman announced on Jan. 25 the... Date: February 1, 2016
Marla Schaefer and Prof. David Cahen When Rowland Schaefer first visited the Weizmann Institute in the 1980s and learned about its... Date: November 16, 2015
The Gruber Awards Nine years after the Gruber Foundation began awarding the prestigious Peter and Patricia Gruber... Date: September 27, 2015
Sculpting science If there is a signature motif of the Braginsky family philanthropy, it is an effort to preserve... Date: September 27, 2015
Chaim Weizmann’s acetone patent turns 100 In 1915, a senior lecturer at the the University of Manchester invented a fermentation process... Date: September 27, 2015
Science central The new Schwartz-Reisman Science Education Centers, established by Gerry Schwartz and Heather... Date: September 27, 2015
Hilda Lewis and Prof. Benny Shilo On the occasion of Hilda Lewis’ 90th birthday, she looked back on her many years of philanthropy... Date: September 27, 2015
Prof. Rava Azeredo da Silveira Even in a globalizing world, it is not every day that you encounter a global citizen and scholar... Date: September 27, 2015
Fruit of discovery Some research changes lives; some research makes lives. Such is the case for the Kaman family of... Date: May 31, 2015
Mapping out memory lane Neurobiologist Dr. Yaniv Ziv explores memory and how it changes with time, new experiences, and... Date: May 31, 2015
Ruth and Uriel Arnon It was one of the important fields in biology developed during the 20th century—understanding... Date: March 29, 2015
