https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/education
October 1, 1996
Socially disadvantaged students have dramatically improved their math and science scores in a five-year experimental educational program designed by Weizmann Institute's Science Teaching Department . "We feel that our experiment can serve as a model for schools in deprived are...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/crossing-continent-then-street
October 1, 1999
When you grow up in a place where books are scarce and teaching resources nearly nonexistent, a higher education seems unattainable. "Since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a scientist. But when I was a child,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizmann-institutes-liaison-office-european-union-opens
October 1, 1996
Celebrating the Union. Left to right, Prof. Haim Harari, Prof. Hubert Curien, Mme Edith Cresson and Dr. Nico Sprecher A festive event held in a medieval castle in Genval, near Brussels, marked the opening of the Weizmann Institute'...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/lucky-five-minutes
October 1, 1999
To succeed as a theoretical mathematician you must have talent - and sometimes a bit of luck as well. Prof. Yosef Yomdin has always had a flair for mat...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/no-math-island
October 1, 1999
Prof. Tamar Flash's scientific career demonstrates that no field of study has to be compartmentalized. At her laboratory in the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/hometown-boy
October 1, 1999
It would not be off the mark to say that Prof. Haim Garty grew up side by side with the Weizmann Institute. Garty, who was born in 1948 in Bulgaria, immigrated to Israel with his family...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/how-does-it-work
October 1, 1999
"Once, a curious child could open up any device to find an answer to the question: 'How does it work?'" says Prof. Ron Naaman of the Weizmann Institut...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/record-number-doctoral-degrees-conferred
October 1, 1996
Home-grown talent. Ramat Gan-born Haim Tsubery (M. Sc. in Organic Chemistry) with his wife, Merav and son, Nadav. Tsubery is one of this year's 169 Feinberg Graduate School degree recipients More doctoral degrees than ever before w...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/pursuing-polymers
October 1, 1999
Though Prof. Jacob Klein was born in Tel Aviv less than three months before the dedication of the Weizmann Institute, the first hints that a bond would form between the two were lo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/interview-vivien-clore-duffield
October 1, 1996
Reading Vivien Clore Duffield's entries in Who's Who and Debrett's People of Today is liking taking a sweep through some of the U.K.'s most well-established charities and prestigious centers of the arts. She is the Director of the Royal Opera House, a member of th...