Students Take Social Action to New Level in Rough Israeli ...
J Weekly -- Every year about 300 BGU students apply for 100 spots to live rent-free in some of Beer-Sheva���s roughest areas in exchange for providing community and educational programs.
Research Now Common Ground for Drexel, Israel
Jewish Exponent -- Drexel University is strengthening its long-term partnership with Ben-Gurion University. In addition to sending students to study there, the universities are planning faculty exchanges and a joint conference on clinical child psychology.
Israeli School Makes Link Between Healthy Planet, World Peace
AOL News -- On a kibbutz in Israel's Arava Desert, Arabs and Jews are taking a first step toward peace by working together for a cause that knows no boundaries: the environment.
Social Psychology: How to Read Minds Like a Wizard
The Huffington Post -- Prof. Tal Eyal of Ben-Gurion University and Prof. Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago are exploring how our untapped cognitive powers can be harnessed to help us more accurately assess what others think of us.
Breaches in Blood-brain Barrier Might Lead to Later Psychiatric ...
The Dana Foundation -- Clinical observations, coupled with study of animal models, have led Dr. Alon Friedman, a neuroscientist at BGU, to hypothesize that damage to the blood-brain barrier may be a gateway to psychiatric illness.
Reviving the Zionist Dream
Jewish Journal of Los Angeles -- Ayalim, the pioneering Israeli youth movement, is being touted as the hardy new transformation of old-school Zionism. Ninety-five percent of the Negev village builders are Ben-Gurion University students.
Science and Zionism Bloom Side by Side in the Desert
Jewish Journal of Los Angeles-- To highlight Ben-Gurion University���s recent advances and contributions to Israel and the world, Americans for Ben-Gurion University hosted a symposium and dinner on April 11 at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, featuring presentations by three groundbreaking scholars and researchers.
A Mission of Caring
Leaders Magazine -- Professor Rivka Carmi, M.D., president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, speaks about the University's groundbreaking research and expertise locally and around the globe.
Israel vs the United States: the Wrong Goliath
OpenDemocracy.net -- The sudden collision between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama���s administrations is reverberating across the middle east. BGU's Prof. Fred Lazin weighs in.
Researcher Receives $100,000 Prize for Heart Repair Research
Prof. Smadar Cohen, head of BGU’s Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, has received a prestigious award for her research which led to the creation of an innovative cardiac scaffold that prevents tissue damage following heart attacks.