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Prof. Asher Koriat Is 1st
Recipient of Prestigious German Award
Intelligence Corps Wisely
Chooses the University
Sweating Before an
Audience—Working to Control a Phobia
Michael Wainer—University’s
First Vice President for Finance
and Business Development
Prof. Eli Salzberger Elected Next
Dean of Law Faculty
University Responds to Tulane
Students' Needs
A Look Back at Graduation
2005
33rd Board of Governors Opens
with Song and Story
University Honors Five with
Honorary Doctorate
First Egyptian to Conduct in Israel Adds Highlight to Ceremony
Social Responsibility Reflected
in a Wide Pool
New Recanati Lab Dedicated
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The University Becomes a Little Like Annapolis (and West Point)
The University of
Haifa has launched Israel's closest approximation to Annapolis, the
U.S. Navy Academy.
"I am happy to announce we now have a naval academy in Israel," said
Rear Admiral David Ben-Baashat, who commands the Israeli Navy. He
was speaking at a ceremony at the Haifa Navy Base inaugurating the
University's new program for Navy officers that will lead to a B.A.
degree in interdisciplinary studies. The formal announcement was one
of the events of the University's 33rd Board of Governors Meeting.
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Supported Academic Learning Aids Students with Problems
Are college-age
youth suffering from mental and personality disorders, like
mania-depression, schizophrenia, or obsessive compulsive disorder,
doomed never to have a higher education?
Prof. Yehezkel Taler, director of the University’s Center for
Rehabilitation Research and Human Development, recognized that many
such youngsters have the cognitive ability to gain a degree, even a
graduate degree. Together with some others, he raised the idea of
conducting a special project to work with students suffering from
such disorders. The result is a 3-year pilot program called
“Supported Academic Education,” sponsored by the Ministry of Health,
the National Security Institute, and Reut, a non-profit organization
for mental health rehabilitation, being carried out at the Haifa
University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Of the two, the
project here on Mt. Carmel is conducted on-campus.
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Synagogue/Church
Controversy and a Digestive Amulet
Mark University’s Dig at Hippos-Sussita
The
sixth season of the archeological excavation at Hippos-Sussita in
northern Israel produced several surprises for the University’s
archeologists. One was a lintel—did it belong to a synagogue or a
church?
The find of a lintel bearing Jewish symbols that typified synagogues
led to the initial conclusion that the public building being
uncovered in the south-western residential quarter of Sussita was a
synagogue. Jewish sources had indicated its very existence in this
predominantly Greek city.
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Golumbic Elected Israel’s
1st European Fellow
Prof.
Martin Golumbic, founding Director of the University’s Caesarea
Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for
Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science, has been named a
Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence (ECCAI), the umbrella organization of all European AI
societies. Golumbic is the first Israeli researcher to be so
honored.
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