Dr. Mashey Bernstein (middle) with scholarship recipients Bar Amar (right) and Eden Yitzhak (left).

University of Haifa welcomed US friend and supporter, Dr. Mashey Bernstein, who recently visited the Mt. Carmel campus and personally awarded scholarships to outstanding students for their contributions to the study of LGBTQ studies. Eden Yitzhak presented his research on women who were married to gay men, supervised by Prof. Yuval Yonay (Department of Sociology). Bar Amar presented her paper entitled “Gender Perceptions of Young Adults who Identify on the Autism Spectrum” supervised by Dr. Bracha Nir (Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders).