Achievements & Awards

2018 - 2019

• Prof. Emeritus Moshe Kaveh, former BIU President, for winning the Prize for Higher Education granted by the Israel Council for Higher Education for “heading an academic institution and causing a significant change that has led to the extraordinary development of the institution.”

• Prof. Emeritus Rami Benbenishty, Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, on his election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

• Dr. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Faculty of Law, on his appointment as general editor of the leading publication in the world in the field of legislation, Theory and Practice of Legislation; and as co-chairman of the Israel Legislation Association, a branch of the International Association of Legislation.

• Prof. Kimmy Caplan, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, on winning the Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies in 2018 for his biography, Amram Blau: The World of Neturei Karta’s Leader.

• Prof. Avraham (Avi) Faust, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, on his appointment as a member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Exploration Society.

• Prof. Emeritus Aaron Gedanken, Department of Chemistry, for his research in developing minoxidil nanoparticles based anti-baldness technology distinguished as one the top 100 scientific discoveries, which is among the two percent of 5,000 scientific discoveries in the criterion of technological uniqueness, high commercial potential and positive impact for the wellbeing of humankind.

• Prof. Zehavit Gross, School of Education, on her appointment as a member of the Public Advisory Council for Civil Service, under the Civil Service Law 5777 – 2017.

• Prof. Beena Kalisky, Department of Physics and the Nanotechnology Institute, for being selected by Globes, a daily evening financial newspaper in Israel, as one of the 50 most influential women in 2018, and for being elected to the Israel Young Academy.

• Prof. Sarit Kraus, Department of Computer Science, for being selected- by Israel’s daily business newspaper, The Marker, as one of 21 women who have led a significant change to Israel’s high-tech industry.

• Prof. Ramit Mehr, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, on being named a 2018 Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology for being a distinguished contributor to the discipline and to the Society.

• Dr. Nahshon Perez, Department of Political Studies, for his book, Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites (Oxford University Press, 2017) being awarded the Outstanding Book Award for 2017 by the Israeli Political Science Association.

• Prof. Marcela Sulak, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, for winning a fellowship in Literature Translation from the National Endowments for the Arts.

• Dr. Noam Yoran, Program for Science, Technology and Society, for being elected as a member of the Israel Young Academy in Humanities and Social Sciences of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities of 2018.

• Prof. Avi Zadok, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for being elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Young Academy and for his article being selected for publication on opto-mechanical time-domain reflectometry in the prestigious Nature Communications journal (The article was written in collaboration with research students in his laboratory: Gil Bashan, Hagai Diamandi, Yosef London and Eyal Preter).

• Prof. Doron Aurbach, Department of Chemistry, 2019 recipient of the Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation (together with Dr. Lars Peter from the NESTE Company in Finland) in recognition of his recent contribution to the breakthrough development of a new type of magnesium battery. Prof. Aurbach is the first Israeli winner in the history of this prize.

• Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Department of Information Science, on her winning the Award for Information Sciences in 2018 from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

• Prof. Dror Fixler, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, on receiving honorary membership from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) for his significant contribution to this field.

• Prof. Yehuda Lindell, Department of Computer Science, on the occasion of his winning the Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Innovation for his breakthrough technology in the field of defense in the online world, and on the development of privacy protection technology.

• Prof. Aren Maeir, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, for winning the ASOR Prize for 2018 for a special contribution to the area of Field Archeology.

• Prof. Michal Alberstein, Faculty of Law, on her appointment as a member of the ERC starting grant evaluation panel of 2018.

• Prof. Joshua Schwartz, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, on the occasion of his appointment as Chairman of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

• Prof. Avi Weiss, Department of Economics, on the occasion of his election as a member of the academic staff of the appeals committee for the Supervision of Prices of Commodities and Services Law, 1996.

• Prof. Avinatan Hassidim, Department of Computer Science, for being selected by The Marker as one of the 40 most promising young scientists under the age of 40 for 2018.

• Prof. Adam Ferziger, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, on his election to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Jewish Studies (AJS) for a three-year term.

• Prof. Ido Kanter, Department of Physics, for the inclusion of his research paper as one of the top 25 articles for 2018 in Medical Express.

• Dr. Yoel Greenberg, Department of Music, for winning the David Kraehenbuehl Prize for 2016-17 for his article, Of Beginnings and Ends: A Corpus-Based Inquiry into the Rise of the Recapitulation.

• Dr. Manal Totry-Jubran, Faculty of Law, on the occasion of her winning the Gorny Award for Young Researchers in Public Law.

• Dr. Nomy Dickman, Head of the Unit for Evaluation and Advancement of Education at the Faculty of Medicine, on her election as the Israeli representative of the European Community of Team-Based Learning.

• Dr. Benjamin Zaidel, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for receiving Third Place in the Bell Labs Award for 2018.

• The Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for being ranked first among all the universities in Israel by Times Higher Education (THE).

• Prof. Ofer Amir, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, was elected Head of the Israeli Association of Cardiologists.

• Dr. Dotan Arad, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, won the Shlomo and Bella Bertel "Nation and World" Prize for his article "Destruction and Remembrance: The Destruction of the Damascus Synagogue."

• Prof. Nimer Assy, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, was listed as one of the 10 most inspiring lecturers in Israel.

• Dr. Vadim Axelrod, Leslie and Susan Gonda Goldschmied Multidiciplinary Brain Research Center, was awarded the title of APS Rising Star.

• Prof. Moshe Bar, Leslie and Susan Gonda Goldschmied Multidiciplinary Brain Research Center, was appointed a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

• Dr. Baruch Barzel, Department of Mathematics, and Dr. Malachi Noked, Department of Chemistry, won the 2019 Krill Prize.

• Prof. Yuval Feldman, Faculty of Law, won the 2019 Cheshin Prize for Senior Researchers.

• Prof. Miron Isaacson, Jewish Literature, was appointed as a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

• Prof. Danny Kaplan, Department of Sociology, was awarded the Louis Gutman Prize for outstanding article by the Sociology Association.

• Prof. Michael Lasker, Middle East Studies, was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Sussex (UK) Academic Press.

• Dr. Limor Lavie, Department of Arabic, won an Alon Fellowship in Humanities.

• Dr. Hillel Mali, Naftal-Yaffe Department of Talmud, won a Fulbright Scholarship for Better Doctors.

• Profs. Gary Mole and Silvia Adler, Department of French Studies, were awarded "Chevaliers dans l'Ordre des Palms Académiques/Knights of the Order of Academic Palms."

• Dr. Jonathan Ruhman, Department of Physics, won an Alon Fellowship for Exact Sciences.

• Dr. Ayelet Sela, Facutly of Law, won a prize from the international Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution for her article entitled "Can Computers be Fair?"

• Prof. Tamar Wolf-Monson, Jewish Literature, was elected to the Azrieli Foundation for support of excellent doctoral students in the Humanities.

• Prof. Jeffrey Woolf, Naftal-Yaffe Department of Talmud, was appointed to the executive council of the Museum of Italian Jewry, Jerusalem.

• Dr. Omry Koren and Dr. Ayal Hendel, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, were elected to the Forum for Young Biuotechnology Researchers of the Natural Sciences Division of the Israel Academy of Sciences for the years 2018-19.

• Prof. Eliezer Tauber, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for winning the 2019 Jabotinsky Prize for Literature and Research for his book, Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth.

• Prof. Dror Fixler, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was appointed as an associate editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal.

• Prof. Moshe Deutsch, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was appointed as Israel's representative in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), an advisory body to the EU on science policy-making and infrastructure.

• Prof. Eli Barkai, Department of Physics and a member of BINA, received the Alexander von Humboldt Research award for scientific collaboration with German scientists.

• Dr. Adi Salomon, Department of Chemistry and a member of BINA, received the 2018 Krill award of the Wolff Foundation for young scientists.

• Dr. Beena Kalisky, Department of Physics and a member of BINA, received the 2017 Nathan Rosen Memorial Prize in Experimental Physics for a Young Faculty Member, given by the IPS (Israel Physics Society).

• Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and director of BINA’s Nano Photonics Center, received the Asian Advanced Materials Award for 2018 given by IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials) for his outstanding contribution in the field of Advanced Materials and Technology. He also received the 2018 BIG (Business Intelligence Group) Innovation Award, amongst other awards and prizes.

• Prof. Emmanuel Friedheim, Israel & Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, was recently appointed editor of the prestigious European publication La Revue des Études Juives (The Jewish Studies Review), published by The Société des Études Juives (The Society of Jewish Studies).

• Prof. Dov Ber Kotlerman,  Joseph and Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, won the Dr. Hirsh and Dvora Rosenfeld Award for Yiddish Literature for his collection of novellas "Der Sod fun Vayse Bern" (The Secret of Polar Bears).

• Prof. Shlomo Havlin, Department of Physics, has won the 2018 Israel Prize in Physics and Chemistry in recognition of his being a trailblazer in multiple areas of statistical physics and its implications for complex systems.

• Prof. Doron Aurbach, Department of Chemistry and the BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), has been bestowed with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his "Development of electrochemical power sources as an excellent platform for promoting basic materials and surface science". 

• Prof. Zeev Zalevsky Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and the BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was named Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an exclusive honor reserved for world renowned, trailblazing academic inventors.

• Dr. Gur Yaari, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, has been appointed Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 

• Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, Head of the Electro-Optics study track at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and Senior Researcher at BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), has been awarded a Fellow status at IS&T (Society for Imaging Science and Technology) for his outstanding achievement in imaging engineering.

• Michal Bouhnik-Marcus, doctoral candidate at the Neuro Engineering Research lab led by Prof. Orit Shefi at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering has won the prestigious Rappaport Prize for Excelling Students of Biomedical Engineering. 

• Dr. Eyal Avraham, a postdoctorall researcher at the Department of Psychology, and Dr. Rinat Meir, a postdoctoral researcher at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for 2018-9 for outstanding postdoctoral researchers.

• Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, head of the Electro-Optics Program at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and director of Bar-Ilan University's Nano-Photonics Center, has won the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS).

• Prof. Yaakov Kaduri, Zalman Shamir Department of Bible, was one of six scientists to be awarded a life membership in the prestigious Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem.

• Prof. Benjamin Sredni, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, has been appointed a lifetime member of the National Academy of Medicine in Mexico. 

• Prof. Rachela Popovtzer, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), is the recipient of the Leon and Maria Taubenblatt Prize for Excellence in Medical Research. Prof. Popovtzer earned the award for her research on Theranostic Nanoparticles for Future Personalized Medicine.

Bar-Ilan University is proud of its students who have received external, competitively awarded scholarships and prizes in 2018 and 2019

• Oshra Batzar, Nanotechnology and Biology; Meir Rinat, Bioengineering; Nava Leibowitz, Physics; and Danan Guthold, Computational Biology; for winning fellowships for outstanding postdoctoral students for the 2018-2019 academic year.

• Eyal Wallach, Department of Physics, on his winning the gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO).

• Lior Hadassi, Departments of Mathematics and Physics; and Itai Yehuda, Department of Computer Science; on their winning bronze medals in the International Mathematics Competition for High School Students (IMO).

• Yoav Avidan and Ohad Sheinfeld, Department of Mathematics, for winning First Prizes in the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC).

• David Mass, Department of Computer Science, for winning the Adams Scholarship.

• Herut Uzan, Department of Physics; Efrat Roth, Department of Physics; Sylvia Fox-Zvia, Department of Computer Science; for winning the scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in the high-tech field.

• Or Shemesh, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for winning the MA Scholarship for Women's Studies in the High-Tech Sector, 2019.

• Abadi Omri Yitzhak, Martin (Szusz) Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology; Michael Daniels, Linguistics and English Literature; David Michal, Martin (Szusz) Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology; Niran Garshtein, Jewish Thought, Asaf Saadon, Commentary and Culture, on their winning Rottenstreich Fellowships.

• Nisan Ozana, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering; Bracha Laufer, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering; Amir Goldental, Department of Physics, for winning the Wolf Prize for Academic Year 2017-2018.

• Tomer Iluz, Brain Sciences and Racheli Ron, Department of Chemistry, for winning the Clore Scholarship for the year 2018.

• Shilat Haim-Nahum, School of Education, Vanessa Workman, Martin (Szusz) Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, and Hallel Hagai Diamandi, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for winning the Azrieli Fellowship for Doctoral Students 2018/19.

• Naseer Yara, Hanan Abu Hassan, Shaimaa Masarwa Nasser Yarra, Department of Psychology, Abu Hassan Hanan, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Masaru Shimaa, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, for winning the PBC scholarship for graduate students Research for the Arab Society.

• Nasser Moolham, Department of Chemistry, for winning a scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in the Arab society.

• Rami Abu Hamad, PhD student in the Arabic Department, for winning a scholarship on a competitive basis from the Academy of Arabic Language in Israel.

• Yiftach Frankel and Herut Uzan, Department of Physics, were selected to participate in an exclusive meeting with Nobel Prize Laureates in the field of Physics.

• Yaron Laufer, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, won an Adams scholarship for 2019.

• Danny Adamso, Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, for winning the "President of the State of Israel” scholarship for excellence and scientific innovation in the field of 70 years of independence.

2017

• Dr. Ayal Hendel, who heads the Genome Editing & Gene Therapy Laboratory in BIU’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, has received an ERC grant for his lab’s novel research in gene correction and treatments for genetic diseases. Dr. Hendel is working to develop the innovative CRISPR technology – which employs a miniscule tool, a RNA molecule to help repair broken genes – thus leading the way to better treatment options for children suffering from such illnesses as sickle-cell anemia and cancer, and immune diseases like the “bubble boy” syndrome.

• Prof. Nathan Keller, of the Department of Mathematics and the BIU-partnered National Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security, has received an ERC grant for his cryptanalysis project which deals with the security of Internet-of- Things devices (e.g. smart cars, smart homes, medical implants). Many classical encryption methods cannot be used since these devices are too small to support classical ciphers (algorithms for performing encryption or decryption), and since cyber- attackers have become more sophisticated. Dr. Keller’s lab is developing new classes of ciphers, which will enable society to use billions of devices more securely.

• Dr. Yossi Mandel, a certified ophthalmic surgeon who holds a PhD in Bioengineering and heads BIU’s Ophthalmic Science and Engineering Lab (and has co-founded the university’s new School of Optometry and Vision Science at the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences), examines methods for vision restoration in patients suffering from retinal degeneration. With the ERC award, his lab aims to develop a breakthrough in retinal prosthesis technology by devising a hybrid retinal implant composed of neurons integrated within a high density electrode array. In this unconventional approach, the goal is to restore vision to blind patients to an almost natural visual acuity and quality.

• Dr. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry, focuses on various electronic magnetic resonance imaging methods which examine chemical and biological processes. Her laboratory has received an ERC grant for its three-phase research method for her innovative work with copper ions which will help create biomarkers for oxygen-deficient cells and ultimately small molecules that will provide exciting new treatment modes for copper-ion heavy diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

• Prof. Yehuda Lindell of the Department of Computer Science has won the Best Paper Award in the 24th ACM CCS 2017 for his research done in the BIU Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security.

• Prof. Eli Vakil, of the Department of Psychology, is to receive the Distinguished Career Award from the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in the US, for his contribution to the field of neuropsychology.

• Prof. Evan Fallenberg, of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, and coordinator of the fiction track, at the creative writing program has been appointed as Co-Director of a new international Master's program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Vermont College in the United States.

• Dr. Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been awarded the Bahat Prize for his thesis entitled "Encounters around the Text, An Ethnographic Study of Jewish Textuality".

• Prof. Rami Benbenishty of the School of Social Work has been selected as a SSWR (Society for Social Work and Research) Fellow.

• Prof. Mira Barda-Saad, of the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been elected as President of the Israel Immunological Society.

• Prof. Even Fallenberg, of the Department of Linguistics and English Literature, is one of eight international writers to receive a one-month long writing residency Sun Yat-sen University in China.

• Prof. Shmuel Feiner, of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has been reelected for a second term as Vice President of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.

• Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, of the Department of Information Science, has been awarded the De-Solla Price Award, which is bestowed biannually upon scientists with significant contirugion to the field of quantitative studies of science.

• Prof. (Emeritus) Jacob Klein, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has been elected as honorary member of the International Society for Assyriology.

• Prof. (Emeritus) Yaacov Katz of the School of Education has been selected as a member of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) International Task Force, which includes 13 members from 9 European countries.  

• Prof. Zeev Zalevsky of the Faculty of Engineering has been awarded the Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional – Young Investigator Prize by the American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery, Inc. 

• Ofer Schwartz, a PhD candidate in Prof. Sharon Gannot's group in the Faculty of Engineering, has won the Best Paper Award at the 2017 WASPAA conference (IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics) held in New York earlier this month. The paper, titled "Blind Microphone Geometry Calibration Using One Reverberant Speech Event" was co written with Axel Plinge, of TU Dortmund Universit, who also presented the article during the conference.

• The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities has announced the addition of four Bar-Ilan University researchers to its ranks. Dr. Omry Koren, of the Azrieli School of Medicine of Bar-Ilan, Dr. Ayal Hendel, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and Dr. Gur Yaari, of the Faculty of Engineering, were selected for the Academy`s Forum for Young Scientists in natural sciences. In addition, Dr. Dotan Arad, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry,  was selected for the Academy's  Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Dr. Ori Schwartz of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has been awarded  the prestigious SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2017 for  his journal on Cultural Sociology entitled "The Sociology of Fancy-Schmancy: The Notion of ‘Farterism’ and Cultural Evaluation Under the Regime of Radical Suspicion".

• Prof. Rachel Weissbrod, Head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies has been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Doctoral Studies Committee founded by the European Society for Translation Studies.

• Prof. Hamutal Slovin of the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center and Dr. Adi Solomon of the Department of Chemistry have been chosen as two of Globes "Women of the Year 2017".

• Prof. Shlomo Shpiro of the Department of Political Science has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Intelligence Studies by The Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA).

• Prof. Doron Aurbach of the Department of Chemistry and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials has won the Frumkin Memorial Medal, in recognition of his achievements across fundamental aspects of electrochemistry, especially in the area of batteries, where he is recognized as the founder of the field of rechargeable Mg batteries.

• Michal Marcus, a PhD candidate in Prof. Orit Shefi's laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering, has been awarded the Academic-Business Sector Scholarship for the Advancement of Women in Science from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. The scholarship was awarded for her research on magnetic control of cellular and drug delivery for local treatment. 

• Prof. Eli Vakil of the Department of Psychology has been awarded the Distinguished Career Award  by the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) for his contribution to neuropsychology.

• Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of the Faculty of Engineering and Prof. Gal Yadid of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at BIU have been awarded the INA research grant for their study on the use of gold nanoparticles to track stem cells used to treat drug addiction.

• Prof. Liat Ayalon, of the School of Social Work, has been awarded the European Union's MSCA-ITN grant to launch an international PhD program on Euro Ageism.
   
• Rabbi Prof. Joshua Berman, of BIU’s Bible Department and recipient of the Rotenstreich Fellowship of the Council for Higher Education, has been appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
   
• Prof. Zehavit Gross of the School of Education has been given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Religions and Education Special Interest Group (SIG) at AERA - the American Education Research Association. 
   
• Prof. Ran Tur-Kaspa, Dean of the Bar-Ilan School of Medicine in the Galilee, was honored with the 201 Life Achievement Award for Health Practitioners, for his unique  contribution to the community and to the advancement of health service in Israel.
   
• Prof. Rami Benbenishty of the School of Social Work received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award by the Society for Social Work Research (SSWR).

• Prof. Dror Fixler of the Faculty of Engineering was chosen as one of 10 foreign researchers to receive the annual award bestowed by the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Fixler, an expert in electro optics, was honored for his work in Nano photonics. The award includes a research grant for a joint study with a Chinese scientist.

2016

• Prof. Sharon Gannot Head of the Speech and Signal Processing laboratories  and the Director of the Signal Processing study track at the Faculty of Engineering,  was appointed Chairman of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee. 

• Dr. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov of the Faculty of Law was awarded the 2016 Gorni Award for Young Researchers of Excellence in public law. 

• Dr. Adi Salomon of the Department of Chemistry won the 2015 GIF (German-Israeli Foundation for scientific research and development) Award for Young scientists.

• Prof. Dror Fixler of the Faculty of Engineering and a BINA faculty memeber,was recently awarded the honorary status of Senior Member of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) for his contribution to the optics community, by applying nanoparticles in biomedical imaging and sensing, and for his overall career achievements. Additionally, he was appointed editor of the Cytometry Part-A Wily Journal.

• Prof. Zeev Zalevsky director of BINA’s Nano-Photonics Center was recently awarded a Guest Professorship Fellowship as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Additionally, he received the Fellow of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Award, and the Professorship Program Award at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia.

• Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of the Faculty of Engineering and a member of BINA, was chosen by Globes financial magazine as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel in 2015.

• Prof. Avi Zadok of the Faculty of Engineering and BINA faculty member, was recently appointed a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanity.

• Prof. Rami Benbenishty of the School of Social Work was won the 2016 EMET Prize in Social Sciences for Social Work.

• Prof. Arie Zaban, from the Department of Chemistry, was awarded the Kolthoff prize for years 2016-2017 of the Department of Chemistry.

• Prof. Emeritus David Schaps of the Department of Classical Studies, has been elected as president of Association for Classical Studies for three years.

• Prof. Zohar Amar of The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology won the Rav Kook prize for his book "HaTzomeach Ve'HaChai B'Mishnat Ha'Rambam".

• Prof. Shmuel Rafael of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People has been elected as an advising member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish language.

• Prof. Jonathan Fox of the Department of Political Sciences was appointed outstanding researcher of the World International Studies Association in the field of religion and international studies.

• Professor Moshe Rosman, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate by Wroclaw Univesrity in Poland, for his contribution to the study of the Polish Jewry.

• Prof. Chaim Milikowsky, of the School of Basic Jewish Studies won a "Rabbi Kook" prize for religious literature in 2016.

• Prof. Johnathan Rynhold, of the Department of Political Sciences won the Outstanding Book award this year of the Israeli Political Science Association (ISPSA) 2016 on his book: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture, (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

• Prof. Nir Lev, of the Department of Mathematics, won the Computational Methods and Function Theory (CMFT) Young Researcher Award.

• Prof. Izhar Bar-Gad and Dr. Dana Cohen, of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, won the (MAFAT) Prize for Creative Thinking, named after Gen. Yaakov Toren (deceased).

• Dr. Erez Levanon, of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Dr. Omry Koren, of the Faculty of Medicine won a German Israeli Award for Research Cooperation and Highest Excellence in Science (ARCHES).

• Prof. Yuval Feldman, of the Faculty of Law and Prof. Avi Zadok of the Faculty of Engineering were appointed as memebers of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

• Prof. Haim Taitelbaum, of the Department of Physics, has been appointed as a member of the Council for Higher Education.

• Dr. Marcela Sulak, Head of the Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program, won the INDIEFAB Gold Award for Adult Nonfiction for Family Resemblances, an anthology of hybrid literary genres.
   
• Prof. Yossi Katz, of the Department of Geography and Environment, will be awarded this year's Israel Prize in Geography, Archaeology, and Land of Israel Studies. The Israel Prize, the country's most distinguished honor, will be bestowed upon Prof. Katz at the annual ceremony on Israel Independence Day.

• Prof. Nathan Aviezer, of the Department of Physics, won a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF), for his project titled Development and Implementation of a Teaching Unit on Modern Science and Orthodox Jewish Faith.

• Dr. Vadim Axelrod, of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, was awarded the Rothschild Fellowship for 2015 for his research in Cognitive Neuroscience.
   

• Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, will receive the Jonas C. Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society (AOS). The Greenfield Prize is granted every four years to a young scholar for the best article in any area of Semitic studies that has been published during the most recent three-year period. 
   

• A Project grant from the Israel Cancer Research Fund was awarded to Dr. Shay Ben-Aroya, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences.
   

• Dr. Michael Blank, of the School of Medicine in the Galilee, was a recipient of the Research Career Development award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund.
  
   

• A Project grant from the Israel Cancer Research Fund was awarded to Prof. Brodie Chaya, of Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.

• A Project grant from the Israel Cancer Research Fund was awarded to Prof. Cyrille Cohen, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences.
   

• An Azrieli Fellowship, which provide generous financial support to the best and brightest researchers at Israeli universities, was awarded to Michael Danzuger, of the Department of Physics.
   

• The Len and Susan Mark Initiative for Ovarian and Uterine/MMMT Cancers award was given to Dr. Sol Efroni, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and member of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, by the Israel Cancer Research Fund.  He also received the International Collaboration Grant from the Israel Cancer Research fund, along with Dr. Francisco Quintana, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, for their project.
   

• Bar-Ilan creative writing and literary translation lecturer Prof. Evan Fallenberg was awarded a writing residency at Château de Lavigny by the Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt of Switzerland.
    

• Dr. Daniel Feldman was awarded a 3-year grant from the Israel Science Foundation for his project: 'Ida Fink: Holocaust Literature from the Margins'.
   

• Prof. Adam Ferziger, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, for receiving the prestigiousUS National Jewish Book Award for 2015 for his book Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism (Wayne State University Press).
   

• Prof. Sharon Gannot, Head of the Speech and Signal Processing laboratories at the School of Engineering, was elected IEEE Deputy Chairman of Signal Processing and Acoustics.
   

• Prof. Eytan Gilboa, Director of the Center for International Communication at BIU and Senior Research Associate at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, was elected Chair of the Israel Communication Association for a three-year term. 

• An Azrieli Fellowship, which provide generous financial support to the best and brightest researchers at Israeli universities, was awarded to Natan Goldstein, of the Department of Economics.
   

• Yitzhak Baruch Goldstein, of the Department of Computer Science, was awarded an Adam Fellowship, given to outstanding doctoral students in the exact sciences, mathematics, and the life sciences. 
   

• Prof. Yaron Harel, of The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, published his book on Intrigue and Revolution: Chief Rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad and Damascus 1744-1914. 
   

• Prof. (Emeritus) Yaakov Kaduri, of the Zalman Shamir Bible Department, was awarded the 2016 Rothschild Prize for Jewish studies.
   

• Prof. Sarit Kraus, of BIU's Computer Science Department and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, was named ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Fellow. Prof. Kraus' innovative research focuses on artificial intelligence, particularly multi-agent systems their interaction proficiently with people.
   

• Prof. Gideon Lewensohn, of the Department of Music, is the winner of this year’s Prime Minister’s Award for Original Works of Composers.
   

• Prof. Aren Maeir, of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was appointed by the Israeli government to the Board of Directors of the Israel Parks and Nature Authority. Prof. Maeir, has directed the Ackerman Family Bar-Ilan University Expedition to Gath for the last 20 years. 
   

• Dr. Uri Nir, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and Dean of Students, was a recipient of the Internal Collaboration Grant from the Israel Cancer Research Fund, along with Dr. Eldad Zacksenhaus of Toronto General Hospital for their project 'Genomic Analysis of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer for Israeli Women of all Ancestries.'
   

• Prof. Betty Olivero, of the Department of Music, was awarded the EMET Prize for academic excellence and professional achievements which have a significant influence on society.

• Prof. Moshe Orfali, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, was chosen as a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

• Dr. Eyal Pe'er, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, won the 2015 GIF (German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research) which helps fund and promotes joint basic and applied research projects between Israeli and German scientists. Dr. Pe'er is also the recipient of the 2015 BSF-NSF (US-Israel Binational Science Foundation) award. This foundation promotes scientific relations between the US and Israel by supporting joint research projects in the basic and applied sciences.
   

• Dr. Avi Picard, of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was awarded the Shazar Prize for Jewish History.

• A Project grant from the Israel Cancer Research Fund was awarded to Prof. Rachela Popvtzer, of the School of Engineering and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
   

• Hagit Porat, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, received a Clore Fellowship, granted to outstanding and promising Israeli scientists pursuing a career in natural sciences.
   

• The Alon Fellowship for absorption of outstanding young faculty was awarded to Dr. Shiri Regev-Messalem of the Faculty of Law.
   

• Dr. Assaf Rinot, of the Department of Computer Science, was awarded the Krill Prize for excellence in scientific research.

• The Alon Fellowship for absorption of outstanding young faculty was awarded to  Dr. Pinchas Roth of the Department of Talmud.
   

• The Alon fellowship for absorption of outstanding young faculty was awarded to Dr. Jonathan Rubin of the Martin (Szusz) Department Land of Israel and Archaeology. 
   

• Dr. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, granted by the Wolf Foundation to returning Israeli scientists.
   

• Prof. Dov Schwartz, of the Department of Jewish Thought, was awarded the EMET Prize for academic excellence and professional achievements which have a significant influence on society.
   

• Prof. (Emeritus) Ora Schwarzwald, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, was the recipient of the Landau 2015 Mifal HaPayis Prize for Arts and Sciences, as well as her being chosen as a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
   

• Dr. Yael Shapira, of the Department of English Literature, was awarded a 3-year grant from the Israel Science Foundation for her project: 'Women's Popular Gothic of the 1790s: A Rethinking from the Literary Margins.’
   

• Dr. Benjamin Shmueli, of the Faculty of Law, received the Schusterman Foundation Israel Institute Research grant for his research proposal entitled "Israel: Legal and Economic Aspects Refusal in Get Tort Actions."
   

• Dr. Manal Totry-Jubran, of the Faculty of Law, was awarded the “Maof” scholarship for exceptional Arab faculty.

• Dr. Amit Tzur, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, was a recipient of the Research Career Development award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund.
   

• Prof. Ehud Weiss, of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land and Israel Studies and Archaeology, had his research chosen as one of Discover Magazine’s top 100 stories of 2015.
   

• Dr. Yaron Yehoshua, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, was awarded two research grants by Israel's Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources.  
   

• Dr. Noga Ayali Darshan, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has won a very prestigious award in Semitic studies from the American Oriental Society, a very large and important professional organization.
   
• Prof. Haim Taitelbaum, of the Department of Physics, was chosen as head of the executive committee of the IUCC–Inter-University Computation Center.
   

• GridOn, a technology preventing power outages in high voltage grids, developed by Prof. (Emeritus) Yosef Yeshurun and Dr. Shuki Wolfus, both of BIU's Department of Physics and the Institute of Superconductivity is chosen as one of 60 Israeli Discoveries and Developments that Influenced the World. All winning technologies are presented in the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space's International Exhibition to be held at Ben Gurion Airport. 
   

• Prof. David Schwartz, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, is appointed as Israel's representative to COST, the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, for the Action Involvement: Emergency Medicine Shortage. 

• Dr. Noga Ayali Darshan, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has won a very prestigious award in Semitic studies from the American Oriental Society, a very large and important professional organization.

• Dr. Lisa Maurice, of the Department of Classical Studies, won a group research grant given by the ERC (European Research Council), for a 5-year research proposal titled “Our Mythical Childhood: Classic culture in today’s youth culture as a response to local and global challenges.”

• Prof. Emeritus Jacob Kaduri (James Kugel), of the Department of Jewish Studies, won the Rothschild Prize for Jewish Studies. 

• Prof. Emerita Ora Schwarzwald, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has won the The Landau Arts and Sciences Lottery prize, and was elected as a member of the Spanish Royal Academy.

• Prof. Moshe Orfali, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has been elected as a member of the Spanish Royal Academy.

• Gideon Lewensohn, of the Department of Music, received the honorable Creation Award for Composer of the Year by the Prime Minister's Office. 

• Dr. Avi Picard, of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, won the Shazar Prize for Research in Jewish History.

• Prof. Haim Teitelbaum, of the Department of Physics, was elected Chairman of the Inter-University Compulation Center (IUCC) Board.

• Dr. Assaf Rinot, of the Department of Mathematics, was awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.

• Prof. Aharon Meir, of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was appointed to be a member of The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA). 

2015

• Prof. Adam Ferziger, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry will receive the prestigious 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism (Wayne State University Press). Prof. Ferziger's book was selected for the Award in the American Jewish Studies category. 

• The research conducted by Prof. Ehud Weiss, of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was termed as one of the hundred most significant studies of 2015 by the American Association of Science Magazine, Discover.

• Prof. Sharon Gannot, Head of the Speech and Signal Processing laboratories at the Faculty of Engineering, was elected Deputy of signal processing and acoustics to IEEE Chairman.

• Dr. Yaron Yehoshua, of the Faculty of Life Sciences, was awarded two research grants by Israel's Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources  
   
• Project grants from the Israel Cancer Research Fund were awarded to Dr. Shay Ben-Aroya and Prof. Cyrille Cohen, of the Mina and Everard Faculty of Life Sciences, Prof. Chaya Brodie, of Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, and Prof. Rachela Popvtzer, of the Faculty of Engineering and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
   
• Dr. Michael Blank, of the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, and Dr. Amit Tzur, of Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, were the recipients of the Research Career Development award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund. Dr. Michael Blank for his project 'Smurf2 in DNA Damage Response and Anticancer Genotoxic Therapies' and Dr. Amit Tzur for his project 'Elucidating the E2F1-E2F7/8 Circuitry in Single Proliferating- and DNA-Damaged Cells.'
   
• The Len and Susan Mark Initiative for Ovarian and Uterine/MMMT Cancers award was given to Dr. Sol Efroni, of the Mina and Everard Faculty of Life Sciences and member of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, by the Israel Cancer Research Fund.  
   
• Dr. Uri Nir, from the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and Dean of Students, was a recipient of the Internal Collboration Grant from the Israel Cancer Reseach Fund, along with Dr. Eldad Zacksenhaus of Toronto General Hospital for their project 'Genomic Analysis of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer for Israeli Women of all Ancestries.'
   
• Dr. Sol Efroni, of the Mina and Everard Faculty of Life Sciences and member of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, received the International Collaboration Grant from the Israel Cancer Research fund, along with Dr. Francisco Quintana, of Brigham and Women's Hospital for their project titled 'miR-29b and miR-9 to Target Glioblastoma Multiform via AHR and p38 Network Modulation.'
   
• Prof. Nathan Aviezer, of the Department of Physics, won a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF), for his project titled Development and Implementation of a Teaching Unit on Modern Science and Orthodox Jewish Faith.
• Dr. Daniel Feldman and Dr. Yael Shapira of the English Department were each both awarded a 3 year grant from the  Israel Science Foundation. Dr. Feldman was honored for his project: 'Ida Fink: Holocaust Literature from the Margins'. Dr. Shapira won for her project: 'Women's Popular Gothic of the 1790s: A Rethinking from the Literary Margins.’
   
• Dr. Eyal Pe'er of the Graduate School of Business Administration, won the 2015 GIF (German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research) on partial confessions to unethical behavior. This foundation helps fund and promote jointed basic and applied research projects between Israeli and German scientists. Dr. Pe'er is also the recipient of the 2015 BSF-NSF (US-Israel Binational Science Foundation) award. This foundation promotes scientific relations between the US and Israel by supporting joint research projects in the basic and applied sciences.

• Prof. Dov Schwartz, of Department of Jewish Thought, and Professor Betty Olivero, of the Department of Music, were awarded the EMET Prize. This prize is given for excellence in academic and professional achievements that in turn cause a significant influence and contribution to society. 

• The Azrieli Fellowship, who provides generous financial support to the best and brightest researchers at Israeli Universities, was awarded to Michael Danzuger of the Department of Physics, and Natan Goldstein of the Department of Economics. 

• Yitzhak Baruch Goldstein of the Department of Computer Science, was awarded an Adam Fellowship, given to outstanding doctoral students in the exact sciences, mathematics, and the life sciences. 

• Hagit Porat, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life sciences, received a Clore Fellowship, granted to outstanding and promising Israeli scientists pursing a career in natural sciences.

• The Alon fellowship for outstanding absoption of young faculty was awarded to Dr. Shiri Regev-Messalem of the Faculty of Law, Dr. Pinchas Roth of the Department of Talmud and Dr. Rubin Jonathan of the Land of Srucied and Archeology Department. 

   

• Dr. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, granted by the Wolf Foundation to Israeli returning scientists.
   
• Dr. Vadim Axelrod of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center was awarded the Rothchild fellowship for 2015 for his reasearch in Cognitive Neuroscience.
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• Prof. Yaron Harel from The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry published his book on "Intrique and Revolution- Chief Rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad and Damascus 1744-1914."
   

• Bar-Ilan creative writing and literary translation lecturer Prof. Evan Fallenberg has been awarded a writing residency at Château de Lavigny by the Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt of Switzerland.   
   

• Dr. Benjamin Shmueli of the Faculty of Law received the Schusterman Foundation Israel Institute Research grant for his research proposal entitled "Israel:Legal and Economic Aspects Refusal in Get Tort Actions

• Prof. Eytan Gilboa, Director of the  Center for International Communication at BIU and Senior Research Associate at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, was elected Chair of Israel Communication Association for a 3-year term. 

• Prof. Sarit Kraus, of BIU's Computer Science Department and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, was named ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Fellow. Prof. Kraus' innovative research  focuses on artificial intelligence, particularly multi-agent systems their interaction proficiently with people. 

2014

• Dr. Elie Holzer, of the Churgin School of Education, won the prestigious 2014 National Jewish Book Award for his work A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs Dr. Holzer's book was selected "as the best written, most comprehensive and engaging book" in the category of Education and Jewish Identity, according to the panel of judges.

   

• Prof. Arie Zaban, of BIU's Department of Chemistry and former Founding Director of the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, is the winner of the 2015 Prize for Outstanding Scientist of the Israel Chemical Society (ICS). 
   
• Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Director of the Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, is the recipient of the 2014 Katan Award for the Advancement of Gender Justice through Voluntary Work.  The Award is given by the Ruach Nashit NGO in Israel in recognition of commitment to social activities and volunteerism on behalf of women and Israeli society.
   
• The Israel Association of Public Law betwoed the 2014 Uriel Gorni Award for Young Reserachers upon Dr. Ori Aronson of BIU's Faculty of Law.
   
• Professor Sharon Gannot of the Faculty of Engineering was awarded a prize for excellence for a published article on signal processing by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
   
• The Israel Association of Public Law bestowed the 2014 Uriel Gorni Award for Young Reserachers upon Dr. Ori Aronson of BIU's Faculty of Law
   
• Prof. Betty Olivero, of BIU's Music Department, is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture and Sports' Creativity in Zionism Award. The award is given for Prof. Olivero's excellent dramatic creation, uniquely based on the Jewish heritage of the Balkan, Moroccan and Spanish Jewish communities. 
   
• Prof. Haim Cohen of the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences is awarded The “Leon and Maria Taubenblatt Prize for Excellence in Medical Research” for the academic year 2013/2014 for his research on extension of healthy lifespan and curing age related diseases by preventing the physiological damages of obesity and diabetes. 

• Prof. Alon Korngreen won the prestigious NSF-BSF (National Science Foundation - Binational US Israel Science Foundation) award, together with his collaborators, Prof. Nathan Urban and Prof. Rob Kass of Carnegie Mellon University

• Dr. Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, for BIU's Faculty of Law, was awarded the 2014 Shneior Zalman Heshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law, given annually by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

• Prof. Doron A. Peled, of BIU's Department of Computer Science, won the prestigious 2014 CAV (Computer-Aided Verification) Award, for the development of partial-order reduction algorithms for efficient state-space exploration of concurrent systems.

• Prof. Aaron Demsky, professor of biblical history at Bar-Ilan University and director of a project studying Jewish names, is the winner of the 2014 Bialik Prize, an annual literary award given for significant accomplishments in Jewish Thought.
   
• Prof. Shamma Friedman, of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies has won the prestigious Israel Prize for research in Talmud. The judging committee said Professor Friedman was chosen for his "enormous and varied study of Talmudic literature, which has earned him an international reputation as a leading speaker on the study of the Mishnah and Tosefta, and questions of literary structure and formation of the Talmud text." 
   
• Dr. Dror Fixler, of the Faculty of Engineering, received the 2014 Lord Turnberg Fellowship, given by The Academy of Medical Science in England, for his groundbreaking research on optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles and biomedical applications.

• Sanna Lonnfors, a student at the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing, has been awarded a research grant by Yad Vashem for research on her thesis, titled: Meine geliebten, goldenen Kinderer: Silenced Voices from the Holocaust. Lonnfors, who's personal mentor in the Creative Writing program is Prof. Evan Fallenberg, has also received funding from the Chydenius Foundation, a Finnish organization.

• Dr. Dancig-Rosenberg Hadar of BIU’s Faculty of Law, won the prestigious Cheshin Law Prizefor Academic Excellence in Law , given annually by The Shneur Zalman Cheshin Fund for Academic Excellence in Law and the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   

• Prof. Gideon Parchomovsky of the Faculty of Law won the Zeltner Prize awarded to senior researchers
   
• Prof. Doron Aurbach of BIU's Department of Chemistry and Director of the Nano Cleantech Center at the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was awarded the prestigious International Battery Association (IBA) Yeager Award for his work in advancing battery technology.
   
• Prof. Kimmy Caplan, of the Department of Jewish History, was appointed as Member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), the only representative of an Israeli Academic Institute.
   
• The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University has received the Gorni Prize from the Israeli Association of Public Law for its noteworthy activities in promoting human rights.
   
• Dr. Aren Maeir, of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was appointed Associate Editor at the Israel Exploration Journal, Israel Exploration Society's official publication, and the most important publication in the field of Land of Israel Archaeology.

• Prof. Gershon Bacon, of the Department of Jewish History, together with Dr. Mirjam Rajner of the Program for Jewish Art, won an ISF grant for the purpose of holding an international research workshop to investigate the Holocaust in Yugoslavia.  The workshop is partly sponsored by Yad Vashem. 

• Prof. Louis Rowen of the Department of Mathematics was named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), For contributions to noncommutative algebra, and for service to the mathematical community.

• Prof. Yair Goldreich of The Department of Geography and Environment won the Luke Howard Award, offered annually by the International Association for Urban Climate.

• Prof. (Emeritus) Shlomo Havlin of the Department of Physics won the Rothchild award for Chemistry and Physics for the year 2014, for his exceptional contribution in the field of statistical physics of complex systems and its substantive affect on such fields as mathematics, computer sciences and biology.

• Dr. Yael Bloch-Elkon of the School of Communication was honored with the prestigious Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award

• Prof. Yehuda Lindell of the Department of Computer Science was awarded yet another ERC research grant.

• Dr. Galia Yanoshevsky of the Department of French Studies, was knighted by the French Board of Education.

• Prof. Susan Rothstein of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics was appointed member of the prestigious Academic Europaea

• Prof. Eliezer Schlossberg, Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Deputy Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, was appointed Chairman of the Committee of Teaching Arabic, Arab Studies and Islam at the Israel Board of Education.

• Dr. Itamar Drori of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People (Hebrew Literature and the Literature of Jewish Languages) won the Gershon Shaked Award for Exception Doctoral Dissertation.

2013 
 

• Histochemistry: Prof. Yaron Shav-Tal of the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, was awarded the Robert Feulgen Prize for the year 2013, for his outstanding contributions to quantify gene expression in single cells by histochemistry.
• Robotics: Dr. Ido Bachelet, of the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, was awarded The “Leon and Maria Taubenblatt Prize for Excellence in Medical Research” for the academic year 2012/2013

  or his research on the subject: Biological & biomedical applications of DNA-based molecular robots.

• Engineering: Dr. Avi Zadok, of the Faculty of Engineering and member of the Nanophotonics Center at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, received the prestigious Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, granted by the Wolf Foundation to Israeli returning scientists.
• Security Research: Prof. Amikam Nachmani, Chairman of the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the 2013 Minas Nomikos Prize for Security Research Excellence from the Greek Research Institute for European American Studies (RIEAS).  
• Fiction: Prof. Evan Fallenberg, Director of Fiction at the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at BIU's Department of English, was awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (US) for a month-long writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center this fall.
• Literature: Prof. Murray Roston’s recent book,  The Comic Mode in English Literature, which suggested a new theory for the way comedy functions, has just been selected in the annual review of the prestigious journal Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Book of 2012”.

• Medicine: Prof. Israel Amirav, of BIU's Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee and a pediatric pulmonologist at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, was awarded the top prize for research at the CIPP International Congress on Pediatric Pulmonologist in Bangkok, Thailand. 

• Appointments: Prof. Jeffrey Perl, of BIU's Department of English Literature and Linguistics, was appointed as member of the New Center for  Humanities Innovation at the University of Durham in England.

• Academia Europaea: Bar Ilan University’s Linguistic scholar Prof. Susan Rothstein of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics was elected to the Academy of Europe, a non-governmental association of scientists and scholars aimed at promoting learning, education and research.

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