By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 8, 2017
Obscured by jargon and riddled with complexity, science can sometimes seem like inaccessible terrain for many. That’s where people like Yaela Golumbic come in.“Science is around us in everything we do,” said the 34-year-old. “When we wake up in...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 23, 2012
A partnership between the Technion, often called “Israel’s MIT,” and Cornell University, will result in a new, multi-billion dollar academic campus located on Roosevelt Island, N.Y. slated to break ground in 2015, according to a top Technion official...
By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 2, 2012
Nobel Prize-winning Israeli biochemist Dr. Aaron Ciechanover visited Washington University last week to speak about his work. However, this was far from Ciechanover’s first visit to St. Louis, as the scientist has a long association with Washington...
By Linda Gradstein, JTA, JERUSALEM
• Published October 12, 2011
Dan Shechtman remembers the day he was kicked out of a research group because of the theory that last week won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry."Read this book. What you say is impossible," the group leader at the National Bureau of Standards in Maryland,...
