Briefs Team Weizmann goes for the gold On your mark, get set, GAMES! In late March, a group of student scientist-athletes went for the gold, representing the Weizmann Institute at the 2022 Academic Sports Association (ASA) Games in Eilat. Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Hooked on space t’s hard not to get excited about space when talking to Dr. David Polishook, a staff scientist in the Department of Physics Core Facilities. Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Science tales The Weizmann Institute’s Feinberg Graduate School recently opened a new course in science communication skills to help scientists and students effectively convey the crux of their research and be able to adapt their presentation to a variety of audiences. Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Young and connected: Weizmann’s new EMBO members This year two outstanding Weizmann scientists were selected to join the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator Programme Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Davidson takes the maker movement philosophy to the next level The maker movement continues to sweep the world, reshaping the face of modern manufacturing, recycling, and sustainability. Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Rising to the top Prof. Jacob Hanna from the Department of Molecular Genetics continues to earn worldwide recognition for his groundbreaking research in embryonic stem cell biology Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Finding hope in science As a child growing up in the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Former Soviet Union, Lily Iskhakova used to sit in her grandmother’s family medicine clinic watching in fascination as she treated her patients. Date: August 18, 2022
Briefs Adapting and unraveling life-inspired materials Dr. Ulyana Shimanovich of the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science was named one of nine winners of the FEBS Excellence Award for 2021 Date: August 7, 2022
Briefs Powerful predictions for material design Dr. Sivan Refaely-Abramson has been awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research for her innovative work on new theoretical understandings of materials. Date: August 7, 2022
Briefs Reshef Tenne elected to the European Academy Prof. Emeritus Reshef Tenne has been elected as a member of the esteemed European Academy of Sciences and Arts, for his outstanding research achievements and international distinction. Date: August 7, 2022
Briefs Advancing the health of humankind Prof. Shalev Itzkovitz from the Department of Molecular Cell Biology has received the 2022 Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research. Date: August 7, 2022
Briefs Blavatnik awards recognize Weizmann trailblazers Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, an annual prize awarded by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Date: August 7, 2022
Briefs Rafael Malach named EMET Prize winner Prof. Emeritus Rafael (Rafi) Malach of the Department of Brain Sciences was chosen as a 2022 recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Bio- Medicine Award—often referred to as ‘Israel’s Nobel Prize’—given by the A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel. Date: August 4, 2022
Briefs Charting the career course The Weizmann Institute is launching a new national prize to advance women in science: the Women’s Postdoctoral Award for Science Career Development, which will support exceptional Israeli women scientists working at top-tier institutions abroad in the exact and natural sciences. Date: August 4, 2022
Briefs Israel Prize awarded to Oded Goldreich Prof. Oded Goldreich of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics has received the Israel Prize, the country’s highest honor, for his outstanding contributions to the fields of cryptography and complexity theory. Date: August 4, 2022
Briefs Postdoc fellowship honors Dr. Angela Merkel In a special ceremony held at the President’s Residence in October 2021 honoring Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog announced the Dr. Angela Merkel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Women Scientists in Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Date: August 4, 2022
Briefs Two-way cellular radio Evolutionary biologists believe that mitochondria, membrane- bound organelles that convert cellular energy, may have evolved from a lonely bacterium that was suddenly swallowed up by another ancient life form. Date: July 28, 2022
Briefs Going out with a bang Some stars go out with a bang— in a supernova explosion that hurls stellar matter out into space. Date: July 28, 2022
Briefs Spiking the particle Prof. Yosef Shaul was a postdoc at the University of California, San Francisco in the 1980s when he read about the recently discovered genome of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Already widely associated with liver cancer, the virus turned out to be a tiny DNA virus which uses RNA to replicate. Date: July 28, 2022
Briefs Putting the brakes on immune cells Immune cells zip through our body’s blood vessels at dizzying speeds, braking at critical checkpoints with the precision of a plane landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Date: July 27, 2022
Sugar baby solution For many, regular injections of synthetic insulin are the only way to push... Date: July 27, 2022
Serendipity leads to sirloin The freedom to follow one’s own curiosity also means the freedom to stumble... Date: July 27, 2022
A ‘smoking gun’ for weight loss Smokers often hesitate to quit, as losing cigarettes usually means gaining weight. Date: July 24, 2022
Canary in the data mine For anyone who uses a computer—and that’s all of us—random numbers are important. Date: July 24, 2022
