News Archive - 2011

Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell, and the Technion Announce Historic Partnership to Build a New Applied Sciences Campus
Monday, December 19, 2011
Cornell University-Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Consortium Selected to Build 11-Acre State-of-the-Art Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island; Will Receive $100 Million in City Capital Temporary Off-Site Campus Will Be Open in 2012; First Phase of Fully-Funded Permanent Campus To Be Completed By No Later Than 2017 Applied Sciences NYC Initiative Designed to Dramatically Transform City's Economy and Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs

Technion Prof. Dan Shechtman Awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
In a Nobel Prize Awards ceremony full of pomp and circumstance, Technion Professor Dan Shechtman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The event in the Stockholm Concert Hall took place Saturday, December 10.

Technion Researchers Find New Way to Charge Solar Cell Materials
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Solar power must become more efficient and less expensive to compete with energy produced by fossil fuels. Silicon-based solar cells are the dominant technology in the field, but the widespread adoption of these cells has been slowed by their high costs. Solar cells that use inorganic nanocrystals or "quantum dots" could be a cheaper alternative, but they are generally less efficient at turning solar energy into electricity.

$3m Raised for Alzheimer's Drug
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
A consortium of four investors, including the Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (TRDF), has completed a $3 million financing round for Israel-based Avraham Pharmaceuticals to further the development of a novel drug for Alzheimer's disease.

Microsoft establishes first university-based research center in Israel
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The first ever academic research center by Microsoft in Israel is up and running on the campus of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Cornell and the Technion will partner in groundbreaking NYC Tech Campus
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Cornell University and The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology announced today a new partnership to create a world-class applied science and engineering campus in New York City, as outlined by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A $30M Commitment to Technion
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The American Technion Society (ATS) has announced that it has received a $30 million commitment from the estate of the late Henry Taub and The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. $25 million of the commitment will be used for the "Leaders in Science and Technology" faculty recruitment program at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and $5 million will go to the university's Faculty of Computer Science.

Technion Scientist Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Professor Dan Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, it was announced today. The Technion is now home to three of the five Israelis in the country's history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in science.

Technion Students Create Application that "Writes" Books
Monday, September 12, 2011
A group of eight undergraduate students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a computer application that "writes" books that can be read online, on e-readers, or printed out. The application, called "BookIt!," scours the online encyclopedia Wikipedia using just a few key words from the user and assembles the finished product - complete with title, table of contents, text and pictures - within a manner of minutes.

Technion Among World's Top Computer Science Universities
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
In academic rankings considered to be among the most objective in the world, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been ranked 15th among 500 universities in computer sciences for 2011. The Technion also placed 42nd among 100 engineering and technology universities.

Technion Providing High-Tech Education, Opportunities to Ultra-Orthodox Population
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - already known as the educator of the engineers who drive Israel's high-tech economy - is launching a program that will further aid the nation by integrating members of the previously unreached ultra-Orthodox population into the technology-driven work force.

Technion to Head Israeli Center of Excellence for Alternative Energy
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will lead the Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE) in Alternative Energies. The selection of the Technion was made by Israel's Council for Higher Education as part of their multi-year reform plan for the Israeli higher education system.

$2.16 Million for Technion Satellite Research
Friday, June 24, 2011
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Prof. Pini Gurfil of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology $2.16 million to conduct research on a method for launching satellites in separate components. Once in orbit, these unattached components would cluster closely together and communicate wirelessly to form a complete satellite.

Technion Hosts World's Longest Yo-Yo Competition
Monday, June 13, 2011
Take a giant yo-yo on a 65-foot rope, a nearly 100-foot tall crane, and the creative minds of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology students, and you have the makings of the 2011 "Dr. Bob's Technobrain Competition." The finals of the annual contest took place on Wednesday, June 15 on the Zielony Plaza Lawn (at the heart of the Technion campus). This year's competition was won by Eyal Moshe Cohen, a mechanical engineering student at the Technion.

Leading Companies Find "Best of the Best" at Technion Job Fair
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thousands of Technion students and graduates, and nearly 50 of Israel's leading companies converged on the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on Wednesday for what is now the country's largest job fair.

Scientific, Business Luminaries Converge for Launch of Israel's Largest Computer Engineering Center
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
More than 700 top academic and industry luminaries will gather for the inaugural Technion Computer Engineering (TCE) Conference this week (June 1-5, 2011). The conference will also serve as the launch of Israel's largest computer engineering center, located at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The new center which boasts 100 faculty members, more than 3,000 undergraduate students and 600 graduate students will be a collaborative effort of the Technion Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, and a number of leading technology companies.

Nanometer-scale layers between materials have both solid and liquid characteristics
Friday, May 20, 2011
Researchers at the Technion have discovered the nature of nanometer-thick layers between different materials and found that they have both solid and liquid properties. By doing so, the researchers made a crucial addition to Gibbs' theory which describes the fundamental aspects of the thermodynamics of interfaces.

American Technion Society Mourns the Loss of Henry Taub
Monday, April 4, 2011
The American Technion Society mourns the loss of Henry Taub. A giant in our organization and in the international Jewish community, Mr. Taub held the most influential offices and was recognized with the highest ATS and Technion honors during his decades of dedicated leadership and inspiring support.

Common Bone Drugs May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
An international team of researchers has found that the use of bisphosphonates - drugs already taken by millions of healthy women to prevent bone-loss - for more than one year was associated with a 50 percent reduction in the risk of postmenopausal colorectal cancer. The results were published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Root for the Technion on Jeopardy!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
On February 14, 15 and 16, America will watch two "Jeopardy!" champions compete against a cutting-edge supercomputer named Watson. The machine, created by an IBM team that includes Technion alumni, is the result of extensive research and development.

Technion researchers discover way to reverse immune system aging
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system) from old mice, and forcing the production of young, potent cells to replace them. The findings were reported in the January 2011 issue of the scientific journal "Blood."

Patient-Derived Stem Cells Could Help Test Cardiac Disease Treatments
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Skin cells from a patient with an inherited heart disease were the seeds of a stem cell experiment that could help researchers test specific treatments for the disease, known as long QT syndrome. The research results appear in the January 16 issue of the journal Nature.

Two-Day Symposium Honors Work of Prof. Daniel Shechtman
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Technion celebrated Distinguished Professor Daniel Shechtman's 70th birthday with a special two-day (January 12-13) symposium honoring his work, which opened up the field of quasicrystals as an area of study in crystallography, physics, chemistry and materials science.

Tiny Creatures are Big Players in Ocean Mixing
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Technion researchers have demonstrated that krill and jellyfish, as tiny as they may be, play a big role in ocean mixing.

Technion, Israel Aerospace Industries cooperate on autonomous systems research
Monday, January 3, 2011
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have signed a multiyear cooperation agreement for conducting research in the field of autonomous systems. IAI will invest $1 million over the next five years for research in the Technion's Autonomous Systems Program (TASP).