Which elite university figured out how to handle anti-Israel protests? Hint: It’s in Israel
At Ben Gurion University, protesters wore keffiyehs, brandished Palestinian flags and cheered fiery speeches. Then everyone ‘went back to class together’
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The gift is the largest ever to an Israeli university and on par with the biggest to any university anywhere
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Fast Forward Petition to cut ties with Israeli institutions circulates at University of Illinois at Chicago
Students at University of Illinois at Chicago are calling for the university’s School of Public Health (SPH) to cut all ties with Israeli academic institutions. A petition drafted and circulated online by UIC’s Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP) has gathered over 200 signatures in under 48 hours. The petition protests an upcoming virtual lecture…
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Fast Forward American-Born Biologist To Head Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of Negev
(JTA) — Daniel Chamovitz, a Pennsylvania native and former dean at Tel Aviv University, will assume the presidency of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Jan. 1. He succeeds Rivka Carmi, the first woman to be appointed president of an Israeli university, who served three four-year terms. Chamovitz, who grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, immigrated to Israel in…
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Fast Forward Human Poop Could Be A Green Energy Source, Israeli Researchers Say
Raw human excrement potentially can be converted into a safe, reusable fuel and nutrient-rich fertilizer, researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found. Scientists at BGU’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research discovered that they can use a chemical process of hydrothermal carbonization to heat solid human waste in a “pressure cooker,” transforming it into hydrochar,…
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Life Israeli Scientists Uncover Therapy That Converts Cancer Cells Into Normal Ones
Cancer cells, by definition, are abnormal cells that divide with abandon and have the potential to spread throughout and wreak havoc on your vital organs and tissues. But what if you could tell those same troublesome cells to stop misbehaving? Israeli scientists think they’ve found a way to do just that. A group of researchers…
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Fast Forward Male Spiders May Want Their Partner To Eat Them, Israeli Scientists Say
Male brown widow spiders seek to mate with older females — and it’s no coincidence that those females are 50 perfect more likely to eat them after sex, Israeli researchers have found. “We originally thought the males would prefer the sub-adult females, as they are more fertile and far less likely to cannibalize them, but…
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