According to a UN policy brief released in August 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and all continents. Closures of schools and other learning spaces impacted 94% of the world’s student population.
Earlier this month the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine conducted an international workshop entitled Mathematics of the MusculoSkeleton: Post-Genome Analysis for Bone Biology.
The workshop included online presentations, discussions and innovative approaches, opportunities, and challenges addressed by Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and deep machine learning from experts in the field of musculoskeletal (MSK) disease, including osteoporosis, and sarcopenia.
Two Bar-Ilan University professors have been elected to the two most senior positions at the Israel National Academy of Ladino. Prof. (Emeritus) Ora Schwarzwald was elected president of the academy and Prof. Shmuel Refael, Director of the University's Naime and Yehoshua Salti Institute for Ladino Studies was appointed scientific secretary.
The Presidential Award of Distinction was established to honor the friends of the university and its supporters from Israel and abroad for their contribution to the university's achievements and developments.
The mathematical knot theory explores structures of knots and the quantities they conserve. In this research, the knots and their conserved quantities were imprinted into light beams using electro-optical means, in a way that allows encoding information on one end, immediate transfer through optical fiber or free space, and decoding it on the other end.
Bar-Ilan University confers "Honorary Doctorate" degrees, "Presidential Awards of Distinction" and "Lifetime Achievement Awards" to individuals who have made their mark in Israel and abroad, in science and culture, government and economy, Jewish education and defense, and other significant areas, as well as to devoted university friends who have contributed to its development and advancement.
The university also takes pride in the growing ranks of BIU scholars and scientists who have received the distinguished Israel Prize in recognition of their achievements.
The area around the Poles have been going through a defrosting process over the last few decades. In addition to the melting of the icebergs, which we all know about, the defrosting process has caused the release of greenhouse gasses, which accelerate global warming. That is why there is such importance in scientific methods that allow for tracking, though hardly any existed until recently. Prof.
Prof. Eliezer (Ed) Greenstein
Department of Bible
During the development of the brain, billions of nerve cells (neurons) have to find their exact place in order to advance the creation of trillions of proper inter-neuron connections, thus allowing us to enjoy proper motor, perceptive and emotional skills.
Research among second-generation Holocaust survivors indicates that children of survivors, who suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), are at higher risk of developing PTSD themselves. Similar findings arise from research led by Prof. Amit Shrira, along with Dr. Benjamin Mollov of Bar-Ilan University and Chantel Mudahogora, a therapist who survived the Rwanda massacre. Twenty-five years after the Tutsi tribe massacre in Rwanda, it seems that inter-generational influence is present there as well.
