Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine and the Russel Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE project initiated community testing for the early detection of the disease in November – National Diabetes Awareness Month.  As part of this initiative, a mobile diabetes-testing clinic of the Israel Diabetes Association came to the Bar-Ilan campus in Ramat Gan and performed free testing without prior registration.

A series of studies on milk donations of bereaved mothers finds that the process of pumping and donating has therapeutic value, creating meaning in post-traumatic loss and growth

Dr. Chana Kranzler, of Bar-Ilan University's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and Dr. Yotam Kaplan, of the Faculty of Law, are the recipients of prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants totaling three million euros, the ERC has announced.

Bar-Ilan University welcomed a delegation of high-ranking officials from leading universities in Australia. The delegation is on a visit to universities across the country coordinated by Universities Australia, the equivalent Down Under to Israel's Council for Higher Education. Their visit to Bar-Ilan was organized by the University's International School.

A remarkable scientific discovery has been made by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), Tel Aviv University (TAU), and Bar-Ilan University (BIU).  A close analysis of the remains of a carp-like fish found at the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY) archaeological site in Israel shows that the fish was cooked roughly 780,000 years ago.  Cooking is defined as the ability to process food by controlling the temperature at which it is heated and includes a wide range of methods.