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Changing the World One Person and One Innovation at a Time CHANGING THE WORLD ONE PERSON AND ONE INNOVATION AT A TIME Assaf Zinger, Ph.D. student in Targeted Drug Delivery and Personalized Medicine A MESSAGE Top: Rendering of the Cornell Tech FROM HAIFA campus, home of the Jacobs Technion- FROM NATIONAL Cornell Institute. Below left: (l to r) Technion President PRESIDENT 2017 Professor Peretz Lavie; Mayor Michael TO THE WORLD: R. Bloomberg; Sanford I. Weill; ZAHAVA BAR-NIR Technion Board of Governors Chair Larry Jackier; Professor Boaz Golany, Vice President for External Relations THE TECHNION and Resource Development. e have much to look forward to in the exciting HONORING MAYOR Below: President Professor Lavie W honoring Mayor Bloomberg. year ahead. And indeed our plates are full. We’re in the MICHAEL BLOOMBERG 3 CELEBRATES midst of a new fundraising campaign, our most ambitious TECHNION OPENS IN NYC yet. The Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute THIS SUMMER 4 will have a new home on the Cornell Tech campus on CHINA RISING 5 MICHAEL ISRAEL’S Roosevelt Island in the fall. We are accomplishing all this THE TECH TRIO: CHINA, ISRAEL, while implementing a new Strategic Plan. THE U.S. 6 TECH All signs point to reaching new heights. TECHNION PRESIDENT PERETZ BLOOMBERG In a first for the ATS, we’ve raised $151 LAVIE’S GLOBAL VISION 7 “Help us million this past year, surpassing our $100 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ 8 MIRACLE spread the million goal for the second consecutive message that year. That’s not just a number—it is the ALUMNI INNOVATORS 12 future of the Technion. Our lay leaders INNOVATIONS THAT ARE CHANGING NEW YORK the Technion are working tirelessly to expand our donor THE WORLD 14 pipeline, attracting interest and support INSTILLING THE truly provides that reaches beyond our typical constitu- ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT 16 CITY’S ent. We’ve gotten publicity for our Tech- education and nion researchers and alumni across a wide FACES OF THE TECHNION 17 innovation spectrum of media from The Wall Street AN ASTRONOMICAL SEASON 20 FUTURE Journal to NBC News. THE ISRAEL-U.S. STEM PIPELINE for the global Taking a page from the tech world, ENVISIONED BY MORTIMER B. o much has happened since that jubilant day in December 2011, when the entire American Technion Society good.” ZUCKERMAN 22 the Technion-Cornell partnership won the competition to build an staff participated in a “hackathon” dur- innovative technology campus in New York City. On March 15, 2016, ing the annual Staff Institute, working DONOR SPOTLIGHT: ALLEN AND the ATS celebrated that event and honored the man whose vision made it all possi- together to draft suggestions for implementing the Strategic Plan. JEWEL PRINCE 24 ble: New York City’s three-term mayor and philanthropist, Michael R. Bloomberg. Milestone events have kept that electricity in the air. In March, we INSPIRED BY DAD: MAURICE AND awarded former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with a Technion HYNDA GAMZE 25 During a gala at The Plaza hotel in Manhattan, Mayor Bloomberg was awarded a Technion Honorary Doctorate for his role in transforming the future of education Honorary Doctorate. His vision for a high-tech Big Apple led to the creation A WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY BUILT of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. To ON GLOBAL EFFORTS 26 in New York. The event was chaired by Lauren and John J. Veronis, along with bookend the year, we recognized nine extraordinary alumni at an event in Honorary Chairs Joan and Irwin M. Jacobs, Eric Schmidt and Joan and Sanford MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE VICE Silicon Valley, attended by more than 300 guests. We also held a special I. Weill. Acclaimed journalist Charlie Rose served as Master of Ceremonies for the PRESIDENT JEFFREY RICHARD 27 event to honor Mort Zuckerman on receiving the Technion Medal, in evening, which also featured a performance by renowned soprano Renée Fleming. recognition of his creation of the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program. On the cover: Assaf Zinger, a rising star “The Technion is an incarnation of that quintessential Israeli idea that nothing is The Technion has reinforced its position as a thought leader in higher at the Technion, is a Ph.D. student in impossible,” said Mr. Bloomberg. “That’s an idea that Israel and New York City education, as evidenced by recent international rankings. The prestigious Professor Avi Schroeder’s Laboratory for Targeted Drug Delivery and Personalized share. It’s what has made both centers of innovation and invention, and it is what Shanghai Ranking named the Technion the #1 university in Israel. The Medicine, which receives support from has allowed both to respond to adversity with strength.” Technion was also recognized by Reuters as the most innovative university ATS donors. Assaf and Avi, a Technion In- in Israel. novator, are developing nanotechnological Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie said: “Because of Mr. Bloomberg’s This edition of Technion USA celebrates our Going Global, and most approaches for performing surgery. See vision and foresight, the Technion and its partner, Cornell University, will create full story on page 17. of all, YOU—our Faces of the Technion. From Technion President Professor leaders in New York who will develop innovative technology and solutions to Peretz Lavie, to the faculty and students, and across the oceans to our benefit mankind.” Some of those entrepreneurial leaders were on hand to demon- committed supporters, we are truly ONE Technion family. strate their innovations. Please share this magazine with your friends and family. Help us spread News about other Technion innovators, promising research, details of the Jacobs the message that the Technion truly provides education and innovation for Institute and more are featured on the pages ahead. ■ the global good. 2 2017 TECHNION USA TECHNION USA 2017 3 SHANTOU, GUANGDONG, CHINA NEW YORK, NY, USAGoing Global GUANGDONG TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HAIFA, ISRAEL JOAN & IRWIN JACOBS TECHNION-CORNELL INSTITUTE China Rising TECHNION–ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY supported by the Li Ka-Shing administrative issues, including Countdown Begins: Technion Foundation, will become the campus construction. Technion Technion’s second global campus. Professor Paul Feigin is behind Some 150 students are the scenes, coordinating all Opens in NYC this Summer expected to start classes in the efforts to ensure the success of fall to study chemical engineer- this complex endeavor. can experiment, understand the Last May, Jacobs’ inaugural class ing with an emphasis on environ- The GTIIT will have Schools results of our experiments and of 12 Connective Media students ment as well as biotechnology. of Engineering and the Sciences, continually improve our pro- received dual master’s degrees GTIIT will also eventually have which will be headed by Tech- grams. As a result, it feels a lot from the Technion (Applied an industrial component. “Just nion Professors Moshe Sheintuch more like what you do in indus- Information Science) and Cornell nce proud of its ubiq- like the Technion in Haifa, we and Noam Soker, respectively, try, especially with a startup.” (Information Systems). Last fall, uitous “Made in China” label, want to build an incubator of and house the departments of “Out of ather than starting with A computer scientist and Jacobs enrolled 28 new master’s today the emerging superpower startup companies side-by-side chemical engineering, material a cast-in-stone plan, Ron Brach- expert in artifi cial intelligence, students: 21 in Connective Media seems bent on transforming its with the campus and encourage sciences, environmental sciences, whole cloth, man has set a goal, is heading in Mr. Brachman became Director of and seven in Health Tech. Aimed image into “Invented in China.” Israeli startups to take advan- physics, mathematics, chemistry we are a direction that feels right, and is the Jacobs Institute last October. at applying computer science And the Technion fi gures promi- tage of the market in China,” and more. These areas will creating learning and adjusting along the His career includes infl uential to the healthcare industry, the nently in that plan. says Ciechanover, who is also expand with the goal of eventu- a graduate- way. “In the end, you end up with positions at Yahoo Labs, Bell Health Tech program is in its The Guangdong Technion co-director of the new Technion ally enrolling about 5,000 under- a much better product.” Sound Labs, AT&T Labs and the Defense second year. Two newly minted Israel Institute of Technology Integrated Cancer Center. graduates, led by 300 faculty level, like he’s talking about a new tech Advanced Research Projects Ph.D. students have also joined (GTIIT) is under way in China In these early fi rst steps, members who will be actively high-tech startup? In a way, he is. Agency, which develops technol- the Runway Startup Postdoc with a mandate to instill in GTIIT is building a campus on involved in research. Faculty educational Mr. Brachman is leading the ogy for the U.S. Department of Program. students the Technion’s inno- the northern part of its property are being recruited from various innovative academic experiment Defense. Mr. Brachman succeeds Still in its infancy, Jacobs is vative spirit. “Campus construc- and setting up a leadership struc- countries, including Korea, institution.” in entrepreneurial education that Professor Adam Shwartz, who is already seeding New York City tion is moving full speed ahead,” ture. Chinese Professor Li Jiange Germany, the U.S. and China, –RON is the Joan & Irwin Jacobs moving back to Israel and taking with entrepreneurs, startups says Distinguished Professor will preside as Chancellor (the and students will be recruited BRACHMAN Technion-Cornell Institute at on the roles of Chair of the Board and innovations. Runway Post- and Nobel Laureate Aaron equivalent of a U.S.
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