BGU Awards First Sam Zuckerberg Scholarship
BGU Awards First Sam Zuckerberg Scholarship
December 9, 2014
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New York, NY, December 9, 2014 – The first Sam Zuckerberg Scholarship for graduate students from BGU was awarded to Anya Shani who is now pursuing an MSc. in business management at Oxford Brookes’ International Hotel and Tourism Marketing Program.
Roy J. Zuckerberg, Anya Shani and Sandra Dwek
Anya completed her B.A. in July 2014 at BGU in the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management. She is a Russian immigrant who arrived in Israel as an infant with her mother and settled in the small northern Israel town of Yavne’el.
“I’m so excited and though I have always had big ambitions, when you live in a small village you can’t even imagine the possibility that you might get the opportunity to study somewhere like Oxford Brookes University,” Anya says. “I’m super-excited and I know that this year will be full of action and learning.”
The scholarship, which covers tuition, housing and living expenses for an academic year is made possible through the support of Roy J. Zuckerberg, in memory of his father Sam. Roy Zuckerberg is chairman emeritus of Ben-Gurion University’s board of governors and is also a long-term board member of American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the benefactor and honorary chairman of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, part of BGU’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research.
“I am pleased to be able to honor my father Sam in a way that enables deserving Israeli students, like Anya, from BGU to attend the prestigious Oxford Brookes,” says Roy Zuckerberg. “The scholarship will continue to fund talented students from a range of disciplines where Brookes has particular expertise.”
The Oxford Brookes Scholarship is the brainchild of the Oxford Jewish Chaplaincy Board, in particular Isaac Garson and Sandra Dwek, both active members of the Oxford Jewish Congregation who are backing this initiative. Garson is a well-known and experienced international educator. Dwek is an alumna of Brookes’ law faculty and a former member of its Chancellor’s Court.
Roy Zuckerberg is a senior director of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. after stepping down as vice chairman of the firm. In 2001, he created a private investment company and in 2004 founded Samson Capital Advisors where he serves as chairman. He also serves on several boards.
ABOUT AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY
By supporting a world-class academic institution that not only nurtures the Negev, but also shares its expertise locally and globally, Americans for Ben-Gurion University engages a community of Americans who are committed to improving the world. David Ben-Gurion envisioned that Israel’s future would be forged in the Negev. The cutting-edge research carried out at Ben-Gurion University drives that vision by sustaining a desert Silicon Valley, with the “Stanford of the Negev” at its center. The Americans for Ben-Gurion University movement supports a 21st century unifying vision for Israel by rallying around BGU’s remarkable work and role as an apolitical beacon of light in the Negev desert.
About Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev embraces the endless potential we have as individuals and as a commonality to adapt and to thrive in changing environments. Inspired by our location in the desert, we aim to discover, to create, and to develop solutions to dynamic challenges, to pose questions that have yet to be asked, and to push beyond the boundaries of the commonly accepted and possible.
We are proud to be a central force for inclusion, diversity and innovation in Israel, and we strive to extend the Negev’s potential and our entrepreneurial spirit throughout the world. For example, the multi-disciplinary School for Sustainability and Climate Change at BGU leverages over 50 years of expertise on living and thriving in the desert into scalable solutions for people everywhere.
BGU at a glance:
20,000 students | 800 senior faculty | 3 campuses | 6 faculties: humanities & social sciences, health sciences, engineering sciences, natural sciences, business & management, and desert research.
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