For the first time since Israel teams began participating in the International Olympiad in Informatics, the Israeli delegation won three gold medals and an honorable mention. Members of the delegation members received their training for the Olympiad at the Bar-Ilan University Youth Center.
Former US Secretary of State Prof. Condoleezza Rice, Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has appointed Bar-Ilan University Prof. Joshua Teitelbaum as a Visiting Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Until recently, only professional researchers were familiar with artificial intelligence (AI). Today, AI technologies, featuring automatic analysis of enormous amounts of data, are no longer confined to labs and research institutes, but are being integrated in widely available applications.
Two outstanding Bar-Ilan University researchers - Dr. Assaf Ben-Moshe, of the Department of Chemistry, and Dr. Shahar Alon, from the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering - are the recipients of European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants totaling 14 million NIS for their groundbreaking research, the ERC has announced.
Meet Yosef Mahfoud Levi, a Master's student at the BIU Department of Arabic, who teaches the Arabic language and culture to enable direct communication between people in our region.
Yosef Mahfoud Levi, a Master's student in the Arabic Department at Bar-Ilan University, is working on a thesis focusing on "the reflection of culture in the dialogue language of the modern Arabic novel", while also lecturing on the Arab language and culture.
More Israeli adolescents are experiencing mental distress daily, fewer are experimenting with cannabis, while tobacco use and binge drinking are on the rise, reveals a new World Health Organization (WHO) Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) study conducted by Prof. Yossi Harel-Fisch and his research team at the Faculty of Education at Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with the Israeli ministries of health and education. The study also finds that social media use and screen addiction have increased, which may impact adolescent well-being.
