In the News Congratulations to Prof. Simone Shamay-Tsoory (Department of Psychology) on receiving an ERC Advanced Grant to explore neurological interbrain plasticity in interaction-based learning. This new approach may dramatically change…
In the News Energean, a company specializing in developing, locating and producing natural gas in the Mediterranean, has partnered with the University of Haifa and the Technion-Institute of Technology to…
In the News At a recent award ceremony for outstanding projects in memory of Pini Mattia, The Israeli Chamber of Information Technology granted the University of Haifa a special award for…
In the News Congratulations to Prof. (Emerita) Nitza Ben-Dov (Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature) on being selected for the 2021 Israel Prize in the Study of Hebrew Literature. She…
In the News Congratulations to Prof. (Emerita) Ariela Lowenstein (Department of Gerontology) on being selected for the 2021 Israel Prize for Social Work and Criminology. She will be receiving the…
In the News Dr. Nirit Ofir, a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies, recently returned from the 2021 Dakar Rally held in Saudi Arabia.…
In the News Ask us Anything: Holocaust is a student-led initiative co-hosted by the Weiss-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies and Tik Tok's global headquarters as part of International Holocaust…
"One of the biggest challenges we face during a crisis like COVID-19 is translating science into concrete guidelines for citizens," explains Prof. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg (School of Public Health). In a study published in…
The Moments of Refuge Project, launched by Prof. Amit Bernstein (Department of Psychology), is a unique mindfulness-based trauma recovery program for refugees and asylum seekers, including survivors of torture, human trafficking and…
A 200-pound stone anchor belonging to an ancient ship was recently discovered at the Tel Dor excavation site near Haifa. Researchers believe that the anchor was first used during the Bronze Age…
Prof. Meir Hemmo (Vice Rector) was recently inducted into The European Academy of Sciences. A professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa, Hemmo has published extensively on the conceptual foundations and…
John Templeton Foundation awards major grants to two scientists from the Faculty of Natural SciencesProf. Edi Barkai (Sagol Department of Neurobiology and former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences) was…
A routine underwater expedition off the coast of Israel has led to the discovery of the largest concentration of shark eggs ever found. "We couldn't believe what we were seeing!" exclaimed Dr.…
"Unprecedented discoveries led by UofH scientists could transform our understanding of climate change and global sustainability," according to the latest "Editor's Pick" in Forbes Magazine. The magazine article featured high-profile studies…
A new study reveals an alarming year-over-year spike in anti-Semitic tropes, images and rhetoric on TikTok. "TikTok caters primarily to young, impressionable and naive audiences. We need to take very…
The study, led by scientists from the Leon H. Charney School of Marine, revealed that pollutants such as copper, phosphorus, and zinc are still present in amounts much higher than…
An archaeological dig led by Dr. Rafael Lewis (Zinman Institute of Archaeology) has identified the remains of a massive siege ramp built near the ancient port city of Ashkelon. The coastal city…
Dr. Judith Somekh (Department of Information Systems) recently identified a novel data science method that significantly shortens the identification of cell-surface receptor functions that are responsible for inter-cellular communication in the…
According to a recent study published by research student Naama Lev, nearly every other person in Israel litters in nature, including national parks and beaches. The study further revealed that…
Researchers from the University of Haifa, the Hebrew University and the French National Center for Scientific Research identified six subparallel incisions on a bone fragment found at a Middle Paleolithic…
The discovery was found submerged at the chalcolithic site Hishulei Carmel, and predates the oldest evidence of olive production for consumption by some 4,000 years. The research team was led by…
An international study led by scientists from the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology (University of Haifa at Oranim), Prof. Ido Izhaki (VP and Dean of Research) and Prof. Malka Halpern found that mosquito-like…
A major EU Horizons 2020 grant for the study of large forest fires has been awarded to an international consortium co-led by Dr. Avi Bar-Massada, a landscape ecologist at the Faculty…
A study reviewing 220,000 years of Dead Sea geology predicts the occurrence of a major seismic event to hit the region in the next few decades. According to research data…
A collaborative study by Drs. Tamar Lotan and Shani Levy (Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences) and Dr. Mickey Kosloff (Department of Human Biology) has discovered surprising evolutionary similarities in the functioning of…
The team, made up of archaeologists and geologists from the University of Haifa, the University of California, San Diego and Utah State University, estimate the wave measured 50-130 feet high…
In the News A study recently published in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology investigated whether irradiation using UV LED would inactivate human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Yoram Gerchman (Department of Evolutionary…
Archaeologists from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology have unearthed a prehistoric stone grinding tool used for 'delicate' abrading by early humans some 350,000 years ago at the Tabun Caves –…
Israeli-Arab women have emerged to fill positions of leadership in Israeli society, yet many challenges remain to achieve full equality. Sawsan Kheir, double-degree PhD candidate in psychology at the University of…
Prof. Dan Tchernov (Department of Marine Biology), Dr. Roee Diamant (Hatter Department of Marine Technologies), Dr. Bracha Nir (Department of Communication Disorders) and additional marine scientists from the Leon H. Charney School of…
Dr. Roee Diamant, Head of the Underwater Acoustics and Navigation Lab is leading the development of a deep learning system capable of identifying the number and types of fish in the…
The device, developed by Israeli company OutSense, clips onto the toilet and operates automatically, non-invasively, discreetly and without active user intervention. In addition to being 90% accurate in detecting traces of blood…
Dr. Nissim Cohen, head of the Department of Administration and Public Policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration, recently presented a new model for managing the…
A recent discovery of a pagan altar incorporated into the walls of an ancient Byzantine church dating to 400 CE is raising questions about the intertwined nature of early Christianity…
Israel has the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate per capita in the world – having administered at least one dose to over half of the population within two months. The NY…
The major oil spill off the coast of Israel is being called the worst ecological disaster in the country's history. Soon after the tar was first noticed on Israel's beaches,…
Prof. Rear Admiral (Ret.) Shaul Chorev, Head of the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center and The Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies, was recently featured in a…
Congratulations to the Clinic for Legal Feminism for drafting the digitized resource center for victims of sexual assault. The resource details what rights they are eligible for as well as…
In the News The Clinic for Law and Educational Policy recently reached an agreement with the Petah Tikva Municipality that will allow asylum seekers to register their children for kindergartens…
Prof. Assaf Distelfeld, Director of the Institute of Evolution, took part in a major international study that set out to decipher the complex genetic code of 15 bread wheat varieties…
As global temperatures rise, insect populations have expanded to new regions and reproduce more rapidly – making them a serious threat to cultivated wheat. A new study led by University…
The University of Haifa is grateful to Mr. Dov Shafir, longstanding friend and supporter of the University of Haifa, for his generous gift to the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research…
An archaeological dig in the Golan Heights found ruins of the area’s oldest known fortified settlement that date back to between the 11th and 9th centuries B.C.E. The dig’s co-director, Barak…
An international study led by Dr. Hadas Okon-Singer, Head of the Cognition Emotion Interaction Lab, set out to identify whether the sense of anxiety experienced by arachnophobes (individuals with an extreme…
A team of researchers led by Dr. Shani Stern, head of the Precision Disease Modeling Lab at the Sagol Department of Neurobiology, created a large computer simulation to study different…
A new study has found that the interferon beta (IFN-ẞ) protein plays an important role in limiting the immune system's role in inflammation and preventing deleterious outcomes of infection and…
A unique study has for the first time documented the common process of a sequential feather replacement (feather molting) found among modern birds in a winged dinosaur dating back 120…
A new study published recently in the journal Current Biology suggested that during the course of evolution, most animal species on Earth lost the ability to synthesize cholesterol autonomously. Cholesterol is a…