In the News Scholarship recipients Over a dozen students were awarded academic excellence and need-based scholarships by governor Ronit Tadmor on behalf of the Hecht Foundation. Founded by Dr. Reuven Hecht…
In the News University of Haifa recently welcomed members of the US Social Impact Israel – a grassroots initiative promoting Israeli start-ups and organizations creating significant social impact. The delegation…
In the News Over 50 academics from Egypt, Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco, Turkey, Albania, Greece, England, Ireland, and Germany gathered in Haifa to discuss how religion can be a vehicle…
In the News VIEW FESTIVE VIDEO MESSAGE University of Haifa celebrated Herta Amir's 90th birthday. In addition to being an honorary life member of the Board of Governors, Herta is a…
In the News University of Haifa recently held its 50th Board of Governor's Meeting, attended by governors, friends and supporters from Israel and four corners of the globe. The festivities,…
In the News <Honorees and participants in the Honorary Doctorate Conferment ceremony, which took place at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.> In a moving ceremony attended by over…
In the News Prof. Rear Admiral (Ret.) Shaul Chorev (Head, Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center) led the Opening Session: "Artificial Islands as a Tool for Promoting Blue Economy and Addressing…
In the News The new cable car, connecting the University with the Technion and the Lev Hamifratz central train/bus station, covers a total distance of 4.4 kilometers with an elevation…
In the News (l-r) Prof. Israel Finkelstein, Director of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, and Prof. Jacob (Koby) Rubinstein, executive vice president for research at the Technion. |…
In the News Credits: (l) New York University | (r) University of HaifaExcerpts from Op-Ed:You can’t get more visible than standing on stage next to a former president. Last month…
In the News The University community warmly welcomes seasoned Jewish leader Naomi Reinharz as the new Chief Executive Officer of the American Society of the University of Haifa. Naomi brings…
In the News In a special Jerusalem Post article marking the 10th anniversary of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies, Program head Prof. Barak-Gorodetsky (Department of Israel Studies), explains the "goal of the Program is…
In the News ASUH CEO Lisa Silverman and staff are welcoming two new colleagues as part of the organization's strategic growth plan which will focus on strengthening community engagement efforts…
In the News University of Haifa recently signed academic agreements with universities in Morocco: Abdelmalek Essaâdi University and Cadi Ayyad University. Rector Gur Alroey led a 20-member delegation to Rabat, Morocco with researchers from the…
In the News The University of Haifa is partnering with the United Arab Emirates University and the Germany-based GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel to investigate climate change and…
In the News UofH is honored to announce the signing of a landmark agreement with the King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The new…
In the News University of Haifa is leveraging the friendly diplomatic relations between Israel and Gulf States to cultivate academic ties with countries in the region. On the first academic…
In the News University of Haifa President Ron Robin and Prof. Dan Tchernov, founder and scientific director of University of Haifa’s Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, penned an Op-Ed in the Jerusalem Post, suggesting…
In the News "Education is more than a piece of paper or license to pursue a specific set of skills; it’s a key to upward mobility, and the great equalizer…
In the News Dr. Nizan Geslevich Packin (Faculty of Law) and Dr. Ori Freiman (University of Toronto) explored the recent debate in a recent article in Calcalist, as to whether algorithms…
In the News At a special event hosted by the Canadian Ambassador to Israel, Prof. Shulamit Almog* and Prof. Noya Rimalt (Forum for Law, Gender and Policy) led a fascinating discussion on…
In the News University of Haifa was honored to welcome a special FIDF mission to its Mt. Carmel campus, led by IMPACT! Executive Director Orna Pesach. The delegation met with…
In the News Michelle Gauthier and Adam Freed from Ottawa visited Israel this past May to find help for their four-year-old son Maksim who has an ultra-rare disease — GRIN2B-related…
In the News Dr. Shani Stern (Head of the Precision Disease Modelling Laboratory in the Sagol Department of Neurobiology), is participating in an international effort to find a cure for GRIN2B, an ultra-rare…
In the News Prof. Adi Livnat (Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology) and scientists from Ghana made headlines when they called into question a central premise of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory.…
In the News Following two consecutive studies, Dr. Hanin Karawani Khoury (Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders) and PhD student, Dana Bsharat-Maalouf concluded that bilingual speakers demonstrate more brain plasticity—the…
In the News New research led by Dr. Shani Stern (Sagol Department of Neurobiology) and international researchers from the Weizmann Institute, Salk Institute in San Diego, the Paris Brain Institute and the…
In the News A study led by Prof. Manfred Green (School of Public Health) found that women were twice as likely to report side effects following the Pfizer vaccinations for the…
In the News Prof. Fuad Fares, Dr. Lital Sharvit and Prof. (Emeritus) Solomon Wasser (Faculty of Natural Sciences) have developed a novel cancer treatment that utilizes extracts of Cyathus striatus mushrooms to…
In the News Dr. Maayan Agmon (The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing) and Stav Bar-Shany will lead the new Kayma Executive Education Center for Social Innovation and Impact Entrepreneurship. The…
In the News In a festive celebration, University of Haifa inaugurated the Dr. David Drahi AI Academic Complex, established with a generous gift from the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation…
In the News UofH Board Chairman Bradley M. Bloom has made a generous donation to launch the Bloom School of Graduate Studies, a university-wide initiative for a select cohort of…
In the News UofH announced today that it has received the largest gift in the University's history – a $120 million commitment from Mr. Elie Horn. The gift will be…
In the News Dr. Gyongyver and Peter Kadas, longstanding friends and supporters of the University from the United Kingdom, have pledged NIS 50 million (~$16 M) towards the University of…
In the News Prof. Eldar Haber (Faculty of Law) was nominated for Israel's prestigious Globes magazine's "40 Under 40" Promising Leadership Team for 2022. An expert in cyber law and…
In the News Prof. Oren Gazal-Ayal, Dean of the Faculty of Law, is named Law Academic of the Year by Israel's leading law publication Court Magazine. The judges noted: "Alongside his…
In the News Dr. Noya Rimalt (Faculty of Law) co-director of the Forum for Gender, Law and Policy at the forefront of reproductive rights in Israel, was recently featured in the Times…
In the News The E-Lijah Lab, headed by Dr. Moshe Lavee (Department of Jewish History), will participate in the Israeli-led project that is using digital imaging and machine learning to decipher thousands…
In the News Cotton fibers from Tel Tsaf. | Credit: Scientific team at Tel TsafThe discovery made by an international team led by Prof. Danny Rosenberg (School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures)…
In the News Integrative Pain Laboratory headed by Dr. Pavel Goldstein.An initiative spearheaded by the Integrative Pain Laboratory, headed by Dr. Pavel Goldstein (School of Public Health), is offering a free…
In the News CLIMATE CHANGE:Dr. Avi Bar-Massada (Department of Biology and Environment at University of Haifa at Oranim), a global leader in fire research, warns that the extreme heatwave experienced in southern…
In the News Safety climate research - which examines how people perceive safety and its value in the workplace, particularly in healthcare, as well as organizational climate - is an…
In the News University of Haifa received top international rankings in the following fields: Education (51-75), Sociology (51-75), Nursing (76-100), and Marine Sciences (150-200), according to the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities. UofH is also leading in…
In the News The Strage Foundation and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev announced that Prof. Andrea Ghermandi and Michael Sinclair (Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management) are the winners of…
In the News Congratulations to Prof. Noga Ron-Zewi (Department of Computer Science) on being awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her research on error-correcting codes and computation. Reducing transmission errors ('noise') is one of…
In the News Congratulations to Dr. David Friesem (Department of Maritime Civilizations) on receiving a 2021 ERC Starting Grant for his research entitled BEFORE the FLOOD: Neolithic coastal settlements and responses to environmental…
In the News In a first-of-a-kind study, a team of UofH researchers set sail to shed light on how sailors navigated strong Mediterranean winds in ancient times. The team used…
In the News UofH archaeologists, under the direction of Dr. Ian Stern (School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures), uncovered a unique collection of astragalos from the Hellenistic period during excavations in the…
In the News The remains found inside the oldest brush hut in the world at Ohalo II, near the Sea of Galilee, reveal its inhabitants had a diverse diet. A…
In the News Prof. Orna Rabinovich-Einy (Faculty of Law), an expert in online dispute resolution, alternative dispute resolution and civil procedure, was recently awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator grant. She…
In the News As a response to global warming, it is of vital importance to expand our search for authentic local ancient breeds that were cultivated and bred for centuries…
In the News Dr. Einat Lavee (Department of Human Services and The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion) recently submitted a comprehensive qualitative study on poverty in…
In the News A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Shai Gabay (Head, The Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making) and researchers from Carnegie Mellon sheds light on the evolution of…
In the News A new study led by researchers from the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University discovered the presence of certain bacteria in the saliva can indicate post-trauma in…
In the News Animals use color for camouflage, to send warning signals, attract mates, send social signals, and regulate their body temperature. UofH researchers have now discovered that in songbirds,…
In the News Dr. Beverly Goodman-Tchernov's (Head, Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences and a National Geographic Explorer) research was recently featured in a Science article highlighting researchers at Israeli universities making world-wide impact.…
In the News Dr. Beverly Goodman-Tchernov (Head, Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences and a National Geographic Explorer) was interviewed by Haaretz following the recent underwater volcano eruption in the South Pacific that…
In the News Skeletons of a young man and a dog who were killed by a tsunami triggered by the eruption of Santorini's Thera volcano 3,600 years ago were recently…
In the News University of Haifa is leading an international observational campaign to map out the vicinity of black holes to better understand how they amass material and grow over…
In the News Prof. Danny Rosenberg (School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures) recently led an archaeological expedition in the Middle Jordan Valley that uncovered cereal grains preserved in ancient pottery…
In the News Over 60 Israeli and Chinese students attended the hybrid cryptology conference held jointly by UofH and the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai. The conference, part…
In the News A key seminar on "Food for Good" was delivered by Prof. Assaf Distelfeld (Director, Institute of Evolution) at the 2021 ITVTI Food for Good International Higher Education…
In the News A webinar organized by the American Society of the University of Haifa and Dr. Uriel Simonsohn (Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies) entitled "Mobilizing Change Through Inter-Religious Collaboration"…
In the News COVID-19 remains a disruptive and unpredictable part of daily life. Prof. Talya Greene (Head, Department of Community Mental Health) discussed her research on the high rates of distress…
In the News The National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa recently partnered with The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW) to host an international conference examining…
In the News The Weiss-Livnat MA Program for Holocaust Studies at UofH, Israel's only interdisciplinary graduate program in Holocaust studies, is dedicated to nurturing a new generation of Holocaust scholars…
In the News Unlike Alzheimer's, old-age dementia is not a degenerative disease but rather refers to the diminished ability to remember, speak or organize thoughts with age. A recent study…
In the News UofH archaeologists have discovered a second synagogue in the northern Israeli town of Migdal. The finding casts new light on Jewish religious and communal life in the…
In the News University of Haifa is a global leader in the number of academic publications on art therapy research according to an article published in Frontiers in Psychology. Prof. Rachel…
In the News The Office of the Dean of Students and the Kav Mashve Organization inaugurated a Business Club Program for students in the Departments of Computer Science and Information…