Agreement paves the way for joint undergraduate degree program in physics and student exchange Bar-Ilan University’s Physics Department and Beijing Normal University (BNU) have signed a cooperation agreement for a joint undergraduate degree program and student exchange. The new program will offer students a joint BIU-BNU Bachelor's degree in Physics, with studies taking place at both universities. L-R: Dr. Yossi Ben-Zion and Prof. Tu Zhanchun shake after signing the agreement The agreement was signed in Beijing by Dr. Yossi Ben-Zion, Deputy Chairman of BIU’s Department of Physics, and Prof. Tu Zhanchun, Communist Party Secretary of the BNU Department of Physics....

Bar-Ilan University’s Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology (LISA) and International School partnered with Concordia University’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Department of Political Science to create an inspiring and unique faculty-directed program in Israel, which took place in July and August 2023. This Israel-Canada collaboration, the first since Bar-Ilan University (BIU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Concordia University last year, resulted in a joint three-week trip around the country with 11 undergraduate students from Canada, who had registered for the summer elective course, “Special Topics in Comparative Politics,” and was led by...

Recently, about 40 academics and staff members from 11 universities in 10 European countries visited Israel for Bar-Ilan University’s annual International Partners’ Week. The six-day week was packed with interesting and innovative presentations and discussions as well as a variety of social events for everyone involved. Delegates were welcomed by BIU’s president, Prof Arie Zaban, and heard opening remarks from Prof Amnon Albeck, BIU’s rector, and Zohar Yinon, BIU’s CEO. Heads of faculties and departments presented some of the research centers (see links below) and the cutting-edge research taking place, and gave tours of the facilities. These included the Multidisciplinary...

Universities, by their very nature, are huge institutions with many different faculties and departments and hundreds of academic and other staff. Therefore, it’s not surprising that most academic staff from one faculty haven’t met their counterparts in another. Bar-Ilan University (BIU) is well-known for bringing academics together through multidisciplinary programs and impact centers – and creating collaborations with international universities on the same basis. Recently, a BIU delegation combining nine different faculties and departments visited the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, a valuable experience for everyone who attended. Staff from the University of Kent Engagement Directorate Office with the...

As part of the UK’s Global Business Innovation Program (GBIP), business leaders working in the global community of industrial clean growth visited Bar-Ilan University last month. The visit was organized and led by Innovate UK, Innovate UK EDGE, and the British Embassy in Israel. The goal of the visit was for the companies to use it as “an opportunity to engage with key stakeholders from the clean growth tech industry, hear cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused collaboration.” The nine companies represented included Bartech, Bohr Green Energy, CCell Renewables,...

Bar-Ilan University is highly committed to expanding its research and innovation activities and has, in recent years, adopted the "impact-driven" approach in academic research where multidisciplinary teams of Bar-Ilan University researchers work together to address pressing challenges facing Israel and the world. Through the establishment of new multidisciplinary “Impact Centers”, Bar-Ilan is revitalizing and modernizing academic instruction and expanding advanced study programs. Bar-Ilan’s Impact Centers focus on a wide range of subjects that may have social, economic, political, cultural, technological, and medical implications. These include Network Science, Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QUEST), Applied Cryptography and Cybersecurity, Energy and Sustainability,...

Bar-Ilan University’s students and alumni are successful, well-rounded, and high achievers. Not only have they received various honors, but they have also contributed to society in a variety of ways. Meet two of our current students and two alumni. Sara Meir, MSc in Engineering Sara Meir is a Master's student in BIU’s Kofkin Faculty of Engineering. Recently, she was awarded the coveted 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for her potential contribution to the field of optics. Sara conducts her research in the lab of Prof. Moti Fridman where she studies...

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Academics planted the seeds of collaboration in Bahrain recently, strengthening ties started with the Abraham Accords. Bar-Ilan University (BIU) was one of four Israeli universities to visit Bahrain at the end of June on a mission to develop partnerships with academic institutions in the country. This trip followed the successful meeting with Ambassador Khaled Yousif al-Jalahma, Bahraini ambassador to Israel, at BIU in February 2022. Read More. In between meetings, the group was treated to a visit to the recently renovated synagogue in Manama, hosted by Ambassador Houda Nonoo, former Bahraini Ambassador to the USA and one of the leaders...

We are happy and proud to announce that two of our international students made it onto the Bar-Ilan University Dean’s List of 2022. Xiuyue Lu from China and Jegors Krisbergs from Latvia are both undergraduate students in communication and political science. We wish them both luck and all the best for what lies ahead!