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Professor Mona-Khoury Kassabri, 2002 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow and Dean of  School of Social Work and Social Welfare at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been appointed VP of Strategy and Diversity. It's the first time an Arab woman will held a VP position at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Congratulations Professor Trajtenberg on being selected by the INSS Board of Directors to head the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

Professor Trajtenberg was a Fulbright Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1985.

To read more about the new appointment, click here.

Photo credit: Yossi Zamir

Congratulations to Professor Zelig Eshhar on being awarded the 2021 Dan David Prize in Molecular Medicine.

Prof. Eshhar was a Fulbright Researcher at Harvard University in 1973. Today he is the Marshall and Renette Ezralow Professor of Chemical and Cellular Immunology at Weizmann Institute of Science.

To read more about Professor Eshhar's work click here.

Soad Younis, one of our 2019 MA Outreach Fellows, was featured on the website of the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University.

To read the full article, click here.

Interesting, new article by our Fulbright alumna, Yasmine Kalkstein (2017 Senior Scholar at Ono Academic College) about female leadership and mentoring.

To read the full article, click here.

The European Union has announced the recipients of its 2020 ERC Starting Grants, which include three Fulbright alumni: Dr. Idan Hod (Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow 2013), Dr. Leeat Keren (Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow 2016) and Dr. Merav Parter (Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow 2015). Congratulations!

Dr. Idan Hod is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Dr. Leeat Keren is the incumbent of the Fred and Andrea Fallek President’s Development Chair and a principal investigator at the Weizmann Institute of Science. 

Dr. Merav Parter is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. 

To read more about the grants, click here.

Read about our wonderful alumna Daniella Wenger's time as a Fulbrighter (ETA-English Teaching Assistant, 2018, Bezalel – Academy of Arts and Design) featured in the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies' blog.

To read the full article, click here.

Fulbright Israel is happy to announce a new partnership with Microsoft R&D center in Israel.

A new joint fellowship to one outstanding researcher who is planning to begin research in the United States in the 2021/22 academic year in the amount of $90,000 for a period of 12 months. 

For full details click here.

Registration is open until December 1st, 2020.

Congratulations to all those who were selected to take part in the first series of the KillCorona research grant program, particularly our Fulbright Alumni. Prof. Eran Elinav, Weizmann Institute of Science; Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dr. Assaf Bester, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Prof. Eran Segal, Weizmann Institute of Science; Prof. Boaz Pokroy, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Prof. Gabriel Hodick, Maccabi Health Services.

All details of the research programs can be found in the link

The IIE Centennial Fellowship is an annual fellowship program that was launched in 2019 in honor of IIE’s Centennial and the association with the Fulbright Program. The IIE Centennial Fellowship seeks to help enhance Fulbright as a life-long experience and recognize Fulbright alumni whose work embodies the program’s values of mutual understanding, leadership, global problem solving, and global impact.

 For 2020-2021, four Fulbright alumni will be selected to receive fellowship awards of up to $25,000 to help fund ongoing or planned projects that tackle challenges related to the global COVID-19 crisis. Given the scope of the crisis, the project may be in a wide range of areas, from healthcare delivery to policy development and dissemination to food security, but it must aim to solve a problem related to the crisis. Projects for this round must be feasible even if restrictions make travel impossible and must follow any local, regional, domestic, or international regulations designed to limit the spread of the virus. That means projects should include viable contingency plans and/or be virtual in nature and demonstrate innovative uses of technology to achieve project goals.

IIE Centennial Fellowships will fund projects for up to 1 year. Candidates may work or study in any field and do not need to have an institutional affiliation.

 Application Deadline: July 21, 2020, 5PM EST

 Visit the IIE Centennial Fellowship website to learn more and apply, or contact us at: IIECentennialfellows@iie.org