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Faculty
Israel's greatest natural resource is its brainpower.
BGU is home to many of the best and brightest scholars and researchers including poets, pundits, economists, environmentalists, anthropologists, and archaeologists, as well as physicists, virologists, engineers, chemists, and mathematicians.
The University's success in attracting top scholars — new immigrants, as well as Israelis returning from their post-doctorate studies abroad or from other Israeli universities —is a testament to its growing worldwide reputation and its commitment to regional development.
BGU's outstanding and diverse faculty members and researchers are internationally recognized for their work in cutting-edge fields, including solar energy, nanotechnology, biotechnology, water management, desertification, and information technologies.
Several BGU curricula and interdisciplinary programs have been emulated around the world, and BGU and its faculty have received numerous prestigious, competitive educational and research grants.
Recent Achievements
- Prof. Smadar Cohen, chair of the Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering, was awarded the Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research.
- Dr. Amnon Sintov of the Department of Biomedical Engineering received a Dekker Award from the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation for research on Parkinson's disease treatment.
- Dr. Michael Feige of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism received the Annual Shapiro Award for best book in Israeli Studies 2009 for Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories.
- Dr. Anne Bernheim of the Department of Chemical Engineering received the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Wolf Foundation for Medicine.
- Prof. Ora Kedem of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at the Blaustein Institutes received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Water Organization.
- Three new researchers from the Faculty of Natural Sciences won highly competitive ERC grants for their work in life sciences.
