Prof. Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, director of the Graduate Program for Gender Studies and a senior faculty member at the Department of Psychology, has won the “Ot Katan” Award for 2020. She was granted the award in recognition of her combined efforts in academic and volunteer work, and in promoting social and gender justice, and healing. Read More  

Yanai Elazar, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, is the recipient of a Google PhD Fellowship for 2020. Elazar has been awarded the Fellowship in Natural Language Processing, a highly competitive category in which only four doctoral candidates from around the world were recognized. Read More

Israeli start-up Sonovia has developed SonoMask, a facemask proven to eliminate 99% of COVID-19 particles. Using technology developed by Bar-Ilan University, SonoMask utilizes a process called cavitation, which involves using specialized machinery to emit sound waves that infuse proprietary chemical formulations into the woven fibers of textiles. With that, Sonovia positioned itself at the forefront of the fight to stop the pandemic. Watch the Sonovia interview on ILTV here. Read More

Bar-Ilan University, which set up the entrepreneurship center, UnBox Ventures, a platform that creates, curates, and invests in startups founded by the university’s researchers and off-campus entrepreneurs, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Wolfson Medical Center, to establish joint ventures. Groups of researchers and physicians from both institutions will participate in a mentored entrepreneurship program as part of the collaboration, led by the UnBox team which is headed by Ariel Sella, a well-experienced entrepreneur who has four decades of experience in investment and management of startup companies in a variety of fields around the world. Read More (L-R) UnBox...

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspired many around the world. Her passing prompted Dr. Ilanit Gordon, Director of the Social Neuroscience Lab in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Psychology, to write a blog for Psychology Today about the special bond we form with leaders like Ginsburg. Read More

Some breast cancer patients tend to put on a few pounds after undergoing chemotherapy due to the presence of gut bacteria, bringing certain metabolic changes after treatment, according to Bar-Ilan University researchers. Read More

Bar-Ilan University’s Prof. Elise Brezis, head of the Aharon Meir Center for Banking and Economic Policy, was asked for her opinion on this topic. Read More

Leaders are construed by young children as individuals whose position of power entails more responsibility, rather than more entitlement, relative to non-leaders, a new study finds. Important strides have been made in recent years in uncovering children’s knowledge about hierarchical social relationships. Much of these have focused on dominance, a hierarchy in which individuals defer to others out of fear or intimidation. Read More

The city of Nazareth has been severely hit by the coronavirus with many of the city’s medical staff testing positive or being put in quarantine after exposure to confirmed patients. Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine has developed a platform that allows it to fulfill the needs of Nazareth when dealing with the coronavirus, all while teaching and training students. Read More

Microfluidic chips that simulate human tissue enable us to conduct medical experiments in ways that could not have been even imagined only a few years ago. Two leading Israeli researchers report from the turbulent Israeli front line of the global ‘organ-on-a-chip’ sector. Read More