Today is #ComputerSecurityDay. Read the insights of Fulbright alumnus, Sam Spector, "Think Before You Click: Towards a More Cybersecurity-Focused Culture"

Sam currently works on cyber policy at the U.S. Department of Defense, in 2003-2004 Sam was a Fulbright Student Fellow in Near Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. Click here for the article.  

Very proud to be leading the FY 2020 Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Program in Israel this coming summer.
We will be hosting U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities to improve their understanding and knowledge of the people and culture of Israel. in Israel this coming summer.
We will be hosting U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities to improve their understanding and knowledge of the people and culture of Israel.

What is Fulbright-hays Seminar Abroad?

Read Israeli alumnus Dr. Danny Ben-Zvi's article, "The Global Diabetes Epidemic & What Can Be Done to Control It." Click HERE.

2015 American Fulbright post-graduate alumna, Rachel Gur-Arie, has published a research article in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research examining and comparing influenza vaccination practices among health care providers in Israel and the U.S. Read the full article HERE.

The Israel Cancer Research Fund has awarded $4.3 million in new funding to Israeli researchers searching for cures and treatments, among them are 10 Fulbright Israel alumni. Read the full "Israel 21C" article HERE. 

Congrats to:
Dr. Irit Ben-Aharon
Professor Aaron Ciechanover
Dr. Rony Dahan
Professor Naama Geva-Zatorsky
Dr. Erez Levanon
Professor Ofer Mendelboim
Dr. Michael Milyavsky
Professor Yitzak Pilpel
Professor Asya Rolls
Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro

On September 18, Leaders in the field from Rhode Island and Israel will provide their insights and perspectives on how disruptive neuroscience technologies are changing the world. Among them will speak our wonderful Fulbright fellow Dr. Rachel Rac-Lubashevsky, a postdoc fellow at Brown University.
To learn more about the event, follow the link .

A new exhibition has opened at Bay College by Terri Warpinski, Fulbright Senior Scholar 2000 to the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.

Surface Tension will be open till September 18, including an Artist Talk and a reception on September 3rd.

For more details click here.

Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Fulbright Post-Doctoral Alumni 2001 to Harvard University, together with a group of researchers from Tel Aviv University, published a new article at Nature Nanotechnology magazine about a nano-vaccine for melanoma. Until now the vaccine has been proven effective in mice in preventing the development of melanoma and in treating primary tumors and metastases that result from the disease.
For the full article.

Photo by Ronit Satchi-Fainaro.

The call for applications for the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships to the US is now open. Full details are on our website. 

Submission deadline is December 2nd, 2019. Good luck to everyone!

Israeli alumnus, Professor Yuval Feldman, has won the 2019 Bruno Memorial Award, presented by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) to scholars and scientists who display exceptional potential and whose achievements indicate future breakthroughs in their fields. The Mori Lazarof Professor of Legal Research at Bar-Ilan U.'s Law Faculty, Feldman was a Fulbright fellow at UC-Berkeley in '99. Read more on the IIAS site HERE.