In the News In a landmark investment in Israeli nursing education, the Azrieli Foundation has donated $10 million to establish the Azrieli Advanced Nursing Center at the University of Haifa.The…
In the News Ophir Netzer, a doctoral student at University of Haifa’s School of Psychological Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious President of Israel’s Scholarship for Excellence and Scientific…
In the News Photo: Michael and Linda Frieze with President Gur Alroey at the Honorary Doctorate Ceremony, March 2025.The Home Again campaign launched recently with significant momentum, highlighted by a…
In the News University of Haifa proudly welcomes six exceptional new faculty members joining after prestigious Alon Fellowships, Israel’s leading program for early-career academic talent. They include: Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion…
In the News The University of Haifa proudly celebrates five alumni appointed to senior IDF General Staff positions, highlighting the University’s role in shaping Israel’s security leadership. The appointments include:…
In the News After decades of advocacy the Council for Higher Education has approved the establishment of the University of Haifa’s medical school – a transformative initiative set to revolutionize…
In the News Over 20 years ago, Michael and Linda Frieze first stepped onto our campus through CJP – the Boston-Haifa Connection – and saw a place where their vision…
In the News The University of Haifa proudly conferred its highest honor, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa, upon Justice Esther Hayut, Supreme Court President (Ret.). Justice Hayut…
In the News Nathan Royce Silverstein, US lawyer and philanthropist, joined the University’s President, Prof. Gur Alroey, Rector, Prof. Mouna Maroun, and Faculty of Law Dean, Prof. Tal Zarsky to celebrate the inauguration…
In the News Dr. Gideon Bickel, agronomist, entrepreneur, and businessman, has gifted the University’s Institute of Evolution with a 61-dunam (15-acre) plot of land in Moshav Neve Yarak to establish…
In the News A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Shani Stern (Sagol Department of Neurobiology) reveals that 75% of genes associated with autism spectrum disorder are also linked to schizophrenia.…
In the News High school students from Shchakim School in Nahariya achieved a remarkable feat – their groundbreaking research on degenerative diseases in space was published in Astrobiology, a leading journal in the…
In the News Interest in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has surged since the Gaza war outbreak. Traumatic memories can resurface years later, disrupting the lives of those who suffer from…
In the News The University of Haifa community congratulates Prof. Sigal Zilcha-Mano (School of Psychological Sciences) on being awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant on "An Individual-Specific Understanding of How…
In the News Credit: Getty ImagesA groundbreaking study led by Dr. Shani Stern (Sagol Department of Neurobiology) has discovered that genetic mutations in nerve cells of children with autism cause rapid growth followed…
In the News Dr. Shani Stern (Sagol Department of Neurobiology) and Dr. Tal Luzzatto-Knaan (Department of Marine Biology) were featured in a recent Ha'aretz article (in Hebrew) about Israeli researchers who are developing groundbreaking discoveries…
In the News Two female leaders and role models from the University of Haifa were featured in an Israel21c article marking Israel's 75th anniversary: marine geoscientist and National Geographic Explorer, Prof. Beverley Goodman-Tchernov (Leon…
In the News A new international study led by researchers from the University of Haifa in collaboration with the University of California (Davis), found for the first time a…
In the News Getting diagnosed and receiving effective treatment for bipolar disorder is crucial, as it can negatively impact education, work status, family relationships, and even lead to suicide. Dr. Shani…
In the News Credit: Getty Images The rainforests are a complex ecosystem that plays a vital role in the maintenance of the environment. A key feature of the rainforests…
In the News Credit: Getty ImagesMillions of bats and other flying animals are killed each year by wind turbine blades around the globe. A new interdisciplinary collaboration developed a drone-mounted…
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 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 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 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 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 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 A list of twenty Israelis leading the way out of the climate crisis, compiled by Israel 21c ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last…
In the News Early risers and late sleepers have different gut bacteria, according to a recent study. "We already know that there are some genetic differences between late-night 'owls' and…
In the News The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities received a generous grant from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation to continue its…
In the News An evolutionary phenomenon may explain why women and men have different temperature preferences. According to a new study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, this phenomenon is not unique…
In the News Through the new partnership, researchers from University of Haifa and La Trobe University will collaborate on three projects: the relationship between artificial intelligence, social media and alcohol…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…