Dr. Adar Ben-Eliyahu has been appointed Academic Head of the International School. She will be responsible for the promotion of the University’s international programs in collaboration with the Office of the Rector and the new VP for Internationalization and Sustainability. Dr. Ben-Eliyahu (Faculty of Education) is a developmental-educational psychologist and researcher, who earned her PhD at Duke University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at University of Pittsburgh (Learning Research and Development Center) and UMass Boston (Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring). Since joining the University in 2014, she has held a number of senior positions including Academic Chair, Teaching Certificate in Psychology. As a member of the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness, she established a task-force to investigate learning during disaster and emergency situations.