https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/campus/scientists-making
August 10, 2010
Seventy two high school students from 15 countries recently visited the Weizmann Institute to participate in the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute camp, which took place for the 40th consecutive year. This four-week program combines hands-on in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/new-beginnings
October 1, 2009
Prof. Sara Fuchs received her doctoral diploma, as did the others in her class, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. But her final oral presentation was at the Weizmann Institute – in those days given...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/teachers’-turn-learn
October 1, 2008
This year, 27 leading science educators from top high schools and institutions in North America, UK, Singapore, Europe and Israel visited the Davidson Institute of Science Education to participate in the 3rd Sheila Schwartz Family International Leading Science Teachers progr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/heading-space
October 1, 2008
A team of students from the Lehman High School in the southern town of Dimona were this year’s winners of the annual space mini-olympiad in memory of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. The st...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching-/turning-forty
October 1, 2008
A special conference was recently held at the Weizmann Institute to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Science Teaching Department. Among the distinguished guests were former department heads Profs. Uri Ganiel and Abraham Arcavi, Prof. Anna Sfard of the University of Haifa and...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/flowers-bloom
October 1, 2008
The Avraham Agmon Excellence Scholarship was awarded this year to 12 outstanding Perach Tutorial Project tutors during a ceremony held at the Davidson Institute of Science Education. Perach Director Amos Carmeli noted that this annual ceremony, which is in its 19th year, presents...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education-science-culture/science-festival-fun
October 1, 2008
Thousands of Israeli citizens, including special guests from the town of Sderot, visited the Weizmann Institute campus during the Passover holidays to participate in the Weizmann Institute’s 9th annual Scie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/past-perfect
October 1, 2009
The present can supply us with intriguing glimpses into the past. In geology, for example, long-term processes that continue to this day can shed light on those belonging to the distant past. The same principle...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/war-and-peace
October 1, 2008
In his new autobiography,* Prof. Ephraim Katzir discusses the co-evolution of science and the State of Israel Among the most important books to be published this year, the year of Israel’s 60th anniversary, is the autobiography of Prof. Ephraim Katzir – one o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/time-tunnel/time-tunnel
October 1, 2009
75 years ago The Rehoboth Research Institute. Messages to Dr. Weizmann The Palestine Post, April 11, 1934 Letter from Mr. Israel Sieff: “Perhaps it is proper that when nations are thinking in terms of narrow and exclusive nationalism, we should contribute our quota...