Qualcomm Co-Founder Awarded the Technion Medal
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, was honored on May 20 with the Technion Medal, the greatest recognition by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, awarded only every three to five years. He received the medal during a festive event in Haifa, marking 20 years of Qualcomm activities in Israel.

Harvey Prize Awarded to MIT and UC Berkeley Professors
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Biology Professor Eric S. Lander of the Eli and Edythe Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, and Eli Yablonovitch, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the 2012 Harvey Prize in a ceremony April 30 at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Sea Squirt Helps Solve Century-Old Puzzle
Thursday, April 25, 2013
By using state-of-the-art high-resolution transmission electron microscopy to examine crystals found in and on the bodies of small marine organisms called sea squirts, a team of scientists led by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has resolved the nearly 100 year-old mystery about the crystal structure of the mineral called vaterite. The findings are published in the current issue (April 26, 2013) of SCIENCE.