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P.P שולם 5932 שבע - באר NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV גוריון בנגב - אוניברסיטת בן Field Family FoundationMedical SimulationCenter to be built atBGUA Well of InspirationFormer French PrimeMinister Jean-PierreRaffarin ReceivesHonorary DoctorateAn Angel in theBudapest SkiesL-R: Prof. Oscaldo Romberg, Mayor Ruvik Danilovich, Prof. Haim Maor, and Prof. Rivka CarmiScience Fest a RousingSuccess*Learn more about Green Campus/http://cmsprod.bgu.ac.il/Eng/Units/greenSee us on YouTubewww.youtube.com/BenGurionUniversityJoin us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/BenGurionUniversityFollow us on Twitterwww.twitter.com/BenGurionU (@BenGurionU)Leading figures from the Israeli art world cametogether to celebrate the opening of a newarts and visual media center named “Habeer”(the Well) in the old city of Beer-Sheva.Pointing to the actual well located in themiddle of the center’s courtyard, and notingthat the city itself was named by its proximityto such wells, Ben-Gurion University Prof.Haim Maor noted that “this is the metaphoricalwell of art and culture that we have all come todrink from.”The non-profit exhibition space is supportedby the Beer-Sheva Municipality, BGU and theRashi Foundation. “Habeer” is the brainchildof Maor, Professor Emeritus Haim Finkelstein,also from the Department of the Arts, andinternationally-recognized artist Prof. OsvaldoRomberg.“We want to do what doesn’t exist already,”explained Romberg, an Israeli-Argentinianartist who created a similar center inPhiladelphia. “The Well will focus on video,experimental cinema and multimedia, butwith its face to the community – bringingchildren and as many people as possibleinto the space to participate in all kinds ofinteractive programs.”“It was impossible to say no to Osvaldo,”University President Prof. Rivka Carmisaid. The center, she explained, will createsomething local, different but equally asexciting as what is going on elsewhere in theIsraeli arts scene. “We are about excellence –in fields like engineering and now in the arts.”Speakers included Mayor of Beer-ShevaRuvik Danilovich and Marc Scheps, formercurator of the Tel Aviv Museum, who spokeabout the opening exhibition that includedworks by the late Dennis Oppenheimer.Among the many guests were GeneralDirector of the Rashi Foundation Elie Elalouf;Amnon Barzel, founder of the JewishMuseum in Berlin; Yigal Zalmona, chiefcurator-at-large at the Israel Museum inJerusalem; and leading curators in the Israeliart world, Dalia Manor, Tali Tamir, HagguySegev; artists Motti Mizrachi, Benny Efrat,Elidor Cohen, Yehudit Mayer; and currentHead of the Department of the Arts Dr. DanielUnger.
NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEVField Family Foundation Medical Simulation Centerto be built at BGUProf. Rivka Carmi (far left) joins Larry Field (left) with his extended family and friend Rivka Seiden (far right) at the ceremonyThe extended family of real estate developerand philanthropist Lawrence N. Fieldfrom Los Angeles was on hand as BGUmarked their pledge towards the buildingof the Field Family Foundation MedicalSimulation Center. Last year, the New Yorkbased Joyce and Irving Goldman FamilyFoundation contributed the seed money toinitiate the Center.The state-of-the-art facility will use electronicmannequins that exhibit life-like symptoms2to simulate a variety of medical situations.Once the Center is built, “No student willgraduate without their having experience inthe simulator so that we make sure that theyfulfill the dictum ‘Do No Harm’,” PresidentProf. Rivka Carmi said. She noted that itwould be the first simulation center createdas part of a medical school in Israel andthanked Larry for his long-time friendshipand support of BGU.Field recalled that his connection to theUniversity goes back 40 years when hemet BGU’s first president, Moshe Prywes,in Los Angeles. Prywes later resigned tobecome the Founding Dean of the Joyceand Irving Goldman Medical School. Notingthat he often lectures about capitalism andentrepreneurship, he explained that “one ofthe things I often say is: if you can imagineit and work hard enough you have a greatpossibility of achieving it.”
ManagersMaking aDifferenceJean-Pierre Raffarin ReceivesHonorary DoctoratePhoto by Erez LichtfeldStudents in the Department ofManagement at the Guilford Glazer Facultyof Business and Management don’t needto wait for that lucrative job offer to beginwriting business plans for companiesand organizations. Dr. Mosi Rosenboim’sclass, “Businesses in Israel: Pointingtowards the Negev,” offers a uniquehands-on opportunity for these buddingbusinessmen.“This year, I and my assistant Miri Arbivdecided that we would send our studentsout to Negev organizations, governmentalagencies and businesses,” Rosenboimsays. “There’s a momentum building inthe Negev,” he observed, “and this isour donation to building the businessinfrastructure of the area.”Former Prime Minister of France Jean-Pierre Raffarin receives the degree from Prof. Rivka CarmiFormer Prime Minister of France Jean-PierreRaffarin was the recipient of an honorarydoctorate during a special ceremony withPresident Prof. Rivka Carmi in January.A former member of the EuropeanParliament, Raffarin currently serves as asenator of France. The honorary doctoratewas given for his service in reformingeducation and pensions in France and forhis support of Israel and the University inparticular, as well as his efforts to fight antiSemitism.After receiving his honorary doctorate,Raffarin wrote about the experience on hisblog:“I was deeply moved upon receipt of theHonoris Causa Doctorate from Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev, the great universityof the desert. I have warm relations with thisuniversity, where young people from aroundthe world, of different identities, religions andcultures gather, where all efforts are directedtowards the vision of its establishment:Making the desert bloom. The noblemission of BGU, envisioned by the founderof the State of Israel is of interest to allhumanity, since more than 50 percent ofour planet surface consists of drylands.Issues such as desert agriculture, waterresearch, solar energy and environmentalmanagement are some of the 21st century’smajor challenges. Generous donors fromall over the world are deeply committed topreserving and advancing the scientific andhuman standards of this great institution.In France, the French Associates of BenGurion University of the Negev is widelyactive under the leadership of its president,Gérard Worms.“BGU’s message of peace and developmentis of special significance in this region of theworld, where the threat of violence seemseternal. In times of war, scholarship remainsthe choice of the future.”The 250 students were separated intogroups of five with an advisor from theGlazer Faculty or one brought in especiallyfor their project. They were then “loanedout” to organizations ranging from theEmployment Service and local councilsto the Kiryat Gat City Engineer to localbusinesses and Bedouin organizations.“The students have been working on awide variety of projects, tackling questionslike what to do with the industrial areanear the Shoket Junction near the townof Meitar. They are working with the cityengineer of Kiryat Gat on designing amotel for businessmen who are visitingIntel headquarters, or promoting tourism tosites in the Negev, everything from Bedouinattractions to the Air Force Museum inHatzerim.“The reactions have been great,” reportsRosenboim, both from the students andthe organizations.“In the long term, the purpose of theproject is for people to know that they canturn to the Department of Management toutilize the academic knowledge we havedeveloped,” he says.3
NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEVRutgers Exchange Learns about Children’sRights in IsraelAction program and its academic units,”noted Isralowitz. “I am very excited aboutthis experience and its prospects for‘true relations development’ based onmutual interest and concerns, as well aspositive communication, cooperation andcoordination of efforts.”Their visit was disrupted by the unexpectedmissile attacks on southern Israel, includingBeer-Sheva, which resulted in a number ofprogram changes.L-R: Dr. Yair Ronen; Ilan Kalgrad; Prof. Richard Isralowitz and Prof. Jennifer Rosen ValverdeEight law students from the Rutgers Schoolof Law–Newark and their professor, JenniferRosen Valverde, spent their seven days ofspring break in and around Beer-Sheva aspart of an academic exchange opportunity.region and met with Fellows from the Lillianand Larry Goodman Open Apartmentsprogram, learning about how this hands-onprogram brings students into Beer-Sheva’sweakest neighborhoods.“You can take courses anywhere,” saysProf. Richard Isralowitz from the Charlotte B.and Jack J. Spitzer Department of SocialWork, who hosted the group in coordinationwith the University’s Community Action Unit.“The key element of this program is makingconnections with the community andlearning from the charged experiences.”“Several of the BGU students areimmigrants from Ethiopia and Russia,”Valverde said, “and they eloquentlydescribed their commitment to improvingthe lives of community members and thepositive impact they have had on specificchildren.”Focused on children’s rights, identityand advocacy in Israel, the group visitedinnovative social programs around the“This bridge building initiative is a modelfor further development and outreachto promote relations with Israel throughBen-Gurion University, its CommunityValverde described how the studentstook the changes in their stride: “Theydemonstrated incredible strength, kindness,resilience, warmth, intelligence and mostof all humor during our trip. While perhapsthey did not learn all of the lessons wehad intended, those they missed werereplaced with lessons on internationalhuman rights and experiencing first-hand,for brief moments, the toll that living underthe constant threat and periodic barrage ofrocket attacks takes on the lives of all wholive in the Negev. These are the lessons thatwill last a lifetime.”Isralowitz handled the organizationaldetails together with Vered Sarousi and IlanKalgrad, Director and Assistant Directorof BGU’s Community Action Unit. Dr. YairRonen, an attorney and member of theSpitzer Department, also participated.BGU Expands Support for Students in Reserve DutyThe University will now grant rights andbenefits to students who are legal spousesof those serving in military reserve dutyand have at least one child. This is the firsttime an Israeli university has offered thesebenefits.“When a student is taking part in reserveduty he or she loses some of the semester,4but the spouse is also burdened by caringfor children and other tasks. They haveto cope not only with their studies, butalso with an increased load and familyresponsibilities,” says Dr. Yaniv Poria fromthe Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business andManagement who initiated the proposal.BGU, which has a particularly high numberof students who serve extended periods ofmilitary reserve duty, already recognizes thehardships this causes them and grants themacademic and other rights and benefitsduring the course of their studies. Theseinclude deferring exams and other deadlinesand entitle them to additional tutoring,priority in the dormitories and scholarships,summer courses and more.
An Angel in the Budapest Skies“He saved Jews at the time when the wholeworld stood on the sidelines and ignored thedestruction of our people,” said Prof. AmosDrory, BGU’s Vice-President for ExternalAffairs at the opening of an evening markingone hundred years since Raoul Wallenberg’sbirth. “We are proud to organize this event inhonor of a man who has become a legend,a symbol of courage and personal sacrifice.”Keynote speaker Prof. Irwin Cotler, formerMinister of Justice and Attorney Generalof Canada, humanized the man by relatingpersonal stories of people he saved,including the late Israeli Minister of JusticeTommy Lapid. He noted that one of theWallenberg survivors told him that, “If you[Jews] had a state of your own you wouldhave had somewhere to escape to. I hopethat soon the Jewish people will have astate, and Jews will come to it from allcountries of the world and live there insecurity.”Organized together with the Friends ofRaoul Wallenberg in Beer-Sheva andthe Beer-Sheva Municipality, the eventProf. Irwin Cotler makes his presentation while Prof. Amos Drory and Dr. Jean Kloos-Fishman look ontook place in the presence of SwedishAmbassador to Israel Ellinor Hammarskjöld;Director of the Righteous among theNations department at Yad Vashem IrinaSteinfeld; and Chair of the Friends ofRaoul Wallenberg in Beer-Sheva Dr. JeanKloos-Fishman. Prof. Edward Fram of theDepartment of History and incumbent of theSolly Yellin Chair in Eastern European andLithuanian Jewry moderated the event.Going Green - One Tree at a TimeWater recycled from the Nano-Fabrication Center labs –after being used in the manufacturing process of advancedsilicon chips – is now being directed into a new garden onthe Marcus Family Campus, thanks to the involvement ofthe University’s Green Campus Initiative. The water is storedin a cooling tank located adjacent to the Fabrication Centerin the Henry and Anita Weiss Family Building for AdvancedResearch, and is pumped directly into a garden that wasplanted on Tu B’shvat this year. The investment is expected toreturn itself in three years, while according to BGU DirectorGeneral David Bareket, the “environmental payback isimmediately noticeable.”The Nano-Fabrication gardenThe project is an initiative of Eitan Admon, Director of theOrganization and Management Unit in conjunction with GilKerner and Yehudit Reizner of the Nano-Fabrication Center.5
NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEVYale GALE Spreads the Gospel of Alumni RelationsMembers of the Yale Global Alumni Leadership Exchange on the Marcus Family CampusWhen you have been around for 310 yearsand your first class reunion was in 1792,there’s a lot to teach a young universitylike BGU. So when a delegation from YaleUniversity came to offer a little coaching onalumni relations, the participants were veryattentive.The Yale Global Alumni LeadershipExchange (Yale GALE) travels around theworld providing cogent and practicaladvice about how to engage with one’salumni. All of the Yale GALE membersare volunteers and were active alumnion behalf of Yale before being asked toofficially represent the university throughthis initiative. “At Yale we were taught thevalues of leadership and service, and I seethe same values here,” said Lynn Johnsonfrom Yale GALE.Osnat Moskowitz, whose husband is a“Yalie,” organized the visit together withBGU’s Director of Marketing Sagi Langer.More than 20 members of the BGUcommunity participated in the day thatincluded two brainstorming sessions. Thetopics focused on how to maintain alumniconnections while making their alma materrelevant for their lives. “It is about friendraising, not fund-raising,” they explained.Developing a Supportive Educational FrameworkA new specialized program for Arab andBedouin educational psychologists openedat the University this year. Answering theCouncil for Higher Education’s (CHE) call, anew track was opened to train Arabs andBedouins to become school counselors intheir respective educational systems. Theserious shortage of such professionals6prompted the CHE to turn to BGU givenits proven track record in the Bedouin andArab communities.Ten psychology graduates from Jordan andIsrael joined the three-year program. Thefirst year is a preparatory year, after whichthe group joins the regular educationalpsychology program.The new joint program of the Departmentsof Education and Psychology was foundedby Prof. Shifra Sagy, head of the educationalpsychology track and incumbent of theShane Family Chair in Education.
America Day comes to BGURememberingLoved OnesA number of new memorial scholarshipfunds have been created by facultyand alumni, strengthening the overallconnection to the University.Prof. Reuven Shuker of the Departmentof Physics recently established theYacov Shuker Annual Ph.D. Prize inPhysics, in memory of his brother YakovShuker. Yakov was a physics teacher at“Habonim” night school in Ramat Gan, avolunteering venture he founded togetherwith friends.The Rennie Harris Puremovement dance troupeFrom a hip-hop dance troupe to theyoung ambassador to Israel, America Daysplashed red, white and blue all over theZlotowski Student Center. Informationalbooths offered interested students insightinto everything from USAID to study abroadoptions and all the other services of theAmerican Embassy.The Rennie Harris Puremovement dancetroupe brought them in droves to clap alongand marvel at the athleticism and grace ofthe dancers. The Philadelphia dance groupoffered a historical glimpse into the evolutionof street dancing from hip hop to funk,b-boy and more.The highlight of the day was a talk byUS Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapirounder the auspices of the AmbassadorsForum. Speaking in a mixture of Hebrewand English, he reiterated the unbreakablesecurity relationship between Israel andthe US, while stressing that US PresidentBarack Obama was determined to preventIran from building nuclear weapons.“President Obama is totally committed toprevention and not containment,” he said.Shapiro also empathized with the terrorizingand untenable situation which facedSouthern residents the previous weekas missiles were falling. “I was initiallyconcerned that I wouldn’t be here today.Two hundred terrorist missiles fell last week.No other country in the world faces thatkind of threat.“I often think, as someone who doesn’t facethis situation every day, what it would belike when the sirens go off. How would thestress and panic affect my three children?”His children range in age from 5 to 11.Shapiro pointed to the US allocation of 200 million as a key factor in getting theIron Dome system up and running as fast aspossible. “We are proud of our investment inIsraeli technology,” he declared.“This welcome initiative of facultymembers commemorating their familymembers by creating an endowmentfund at BGU, in an area close to theirheart, follows other similar initiatives,”explains Vice-President for ExternalAffairs Prof. Amos Drory. “This is part ofcreating a true BGU family,” he continues,noting that the family of Profs. Miriamand Yoel Margalit created undergraduatescholarship endowment funds in theirmemory, while another faculty membercreated a fund anonymously in honor ofhis uncle.The Abramovitch family, whose son Amirwas an outstanding doctoral student atthe Laboratory for the Biology of Agingat the Shraga Segal Department ofMicrobiology and Immunology and diedtragically, donated funds for laboratoryequipment. The family plans to establisha fund to present a prize in memoryof Amir for outstanding research ofa graduate student in the area of thebiology of aging and rejuvenation, whichwas Amir’s field.Alumnus Yuval Levy donated funds inmemory of his father, who was also analumnus of the Department of Geologyand Environmental Sciences and aleading geologist, to grant prizes tooutstanding graduate students of theDepartment for the next five years.7
SnapshotA glance at BGU events8Mourning the lost generation: The annual Holocaustand Heroism Remembrance Day CeremonyNASA has landed: Astronaut Colonel (Ret.) William Surles “Bill” Mcarthurdelivered the Annual Ilan Ramon Memorial lectureThe University administration was on-hand to welcome the first guest AldenSolovy (center) to the new U-Tel accomodations for campus visitorsPresident Shimon Peres holds his press conference at the BGU boothat the NanoIsrael 2012 fair, while BGN CEO Netta Cohen looks onBGU in Qatar: Prof. Ohad Birk (second from left) was aguest on the BBC's Doha Debates on intra-family marriage
NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEVScience Fest a Rousing Success“It was very nice to see so many peoplecome out in the eve
The extended family of real estate developer and philanthropist Lawrence N. Field from Los Angeles was on hand as BGU marked their pledge towards the building of the Field Family Foundation Medical Simulation Center. Last year, the New York-based Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation contributed the seed money to initiate the Center.
Shattered Trust: When Replacement Smartphone Components Attack Omer Shwartz, Amir Cohen, Asaf Shabtai, Yossi Oren Ben-Gurion University of the Negev omershv@post.bgu.ac.il, amir3@post.bgu.ac.il, shabtaia@bgu.ac.il, yos@bgu.ac.il Abstract Phone touchscreens, and other similar hardware compo-nents such as orientation sensors, wireless charging con-Cited by: 8Publish Year: 2017Author: Omer Shwartz, Ami
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Novel Core Physics Heuristics in Advanced Genetic Algorithms for In-Core Fuel Management Ella Israeli & Erez Gilad The Unit of Nuclear Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel ellaisra@post.bgu.ac.il, gilade@bgu.ac.il Abstract - In this work, modern and improved genetic algorithms are implemented for the problem .
BGU shock-wave experts edit leading handbook in the field 6 Selected events at Ben-Gurion University, June 2001 7 . Collaborating in this work at BGU are Dr. Yan Press of the Department of Family Medicine and Dr. Izchak Z. Ben-Zion, at the Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of . “A Vision of the
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, 2011. From 2011 to 2013, Dan was a Senior Researcher at the Communication Systems Engineering Department, BGU. Starting from the middle of 2013, Dan is a Post-Doctoral Senior Researcher at the Video Coding & Analytics Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz
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