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I Unconventional Conference Focuses on Innovation News@ BGU NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV אוניברסיטתews בן-גוריון בנגב NNEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY@BGU OF THE NEGEV SPRING 2010 I Unconventional Conference Focuses on Innovation A colorful “un-conference” to encourage innovation and creativity took place last month at BGU’s Marcus Family Campus. Sponsored by the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship and Hi-Tech Management of the Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management, “Innovation 2010” attracted an interdisciplinary audience. Based on an American model and brought to Israel by Dr. Yossi Vardi, the country’s internationally famous start-up guru, Innovation 2010 provided Blowing bubbles at the Innovation 2010, proving that creative thinking can also be fun a platform for interaction that organizers hoped would create More than 500 participants they could interact creatively, a start-up with no money an atmosphere to stimulate and showed up at the spirited event think together and come up and juggling balls as a way to develop original ideas. Vardi – some as young as 17 – to with new ideas.” increase brain function and opened the event, declaring, demonstrate their innovative impress your kids. “This is really a celebration; projects, listen to new ideas, The agenda and contents of it's heart-warming to see the brainstorm and just do some Innovation 2010 events are “Here there are no generals; amount of talent, enthusiasm plain hi-tech schmoozing. The determined by the participants everyone is a corporal,” and initiative here.” interdisciplinary event attracted themselves. At the opening Vardi told the attendees, later students and faculty from almost of the “un-conference,” more explaining that “since in Israel This was the first time an “un- every field, as well as business than 30 would-be innovators everyone understands military conference” took place at people and representatives of gave one-minute previews of terminology, this was a way BGU, explained Prof. Amos various companies who took the what they intended to present of explaining that at this event Drory, incumbent of the Ernest opportunity to meet one other during the day. Workshops and everyone is an equal. One of the Scheller, Jr. Chair in Innovative and have some unscripted fun. presentations included topics purposes of the “un-conference” Management and Vice-President such as how to increase brain is to encourage those people for External Affairs. “Judging “The idea,” explained organizer power, marketing tools for new who feel less secure and who from the enthusiastic response,” and head of the Bengis Center ideas, the art of persuasion, out are a bit bashful to talk about he noted, “we hope to do this Prof. Dafna Schwartz, “was to of the box thinking, lessons their ideas. This is a way of again.” bring a lot of people together so learned from failures, launching empowering them.” I Ladislaus Laszt Ecumenical and I Prof. Smadar Cohen Wins I New Chamber Music Course I Weight Loss Diets Can Reverse Social Concern3 Award Presented Prestigious5 Rappaport Prize Launched11 Carotid Atherosclerosis12 to Father Patrick Desbois News@ BGU NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV I Dr. Eric E. Whitaker Explores Opportunities for Collaboration FOHS Dean Prof. Shaul Sofer, incumbent of the Lubner “I was very impressed Family Chair in Child Health by Dr. Whitaker’s past and Development, who is accomplishments and his also head of the pediatric vision for the community critical care unit at the Soroka health and welfare of the University Medical Center. He residents of the South Side learned about the University’s of Chicago,” said Carmi after comprehensive “Healthy City” their meeting. “His philosophy plan for Beer-Sheva and other of using education as a tool unique programs that target for grassroots prevention preventative care in otherwise programs is very similar to underserved population our approach and opens up a groups. whole new realm of areas for Dr. Eric E. Whitaker (left) and Prof. Shaul Sofer potential cooperation between Whitaker explained that the the two universities.” Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, the he said after a day-long visit UCMC is “also trying to use Executive Vice President for to the Faculty of Health the limited resources of a Whitaker was already familiar Strategic Affiliations and the Sciences (FOHS). “I have the university to help a population with the pioneering work Associate Dean of Community- belief and hope that we can defined by a geographic area.” of Israeli doctors in the field Based Research at the work together to create a He added that the South Side of community medicine. University of Chicago Medical collaborative effort,” he said. of Chicago includes some 1.1 “My first introduction to Center (UCMC), was in Israel million residents who have community care was through this month to learn more about Whitaker spent the day limited access to health care the work of Sydney Kark,” he community-based medicine, learning about BGU’s and who exhibit many of related, explaining that Kark including primary care and unique community outreach the illnesses that are related coined the term “community- public health. programs, meeting with to their low socio-economic oriented primary healthcare” University President Prof. situation. The next step, he to describe his work in “It is frightening how parallel Rivka Carmi, herself a believes, is to bring a full South Africa. “I worked on our work is, yours with the neonatologist and geneticist delegation of healthcare something called Project Bedouin and other minority who worked in the Bedouin professionals to BGU to Brotherhood,” he added, “but populations, and ours on community for most of her explore potential areas for now we want to scale it up to the South Side of Chicago,” professional career, and collaboration. a larger area.” I Agreement with Hungarian University Signed An agreement on academic through collaboration, the agreements in the future to Study of European Politics and cultural cooperation with scientific and educational promote cooperation and and Society (CSEPS). The the Corvinus University of level of the two institutions exchange projects in particular visit, designed to promote Budapest (CUB) was signed by and to promote and intensify fields. cooperation with Hungarian Rector Prof. Jimmy Weinblatt their friendship and mutual universities, was coordinated and CUB Rector Prof. Tamás understanding through The agreement was signed by the CSEPS and the Israeli Mészáros in March. cooperation in education, during a three-day visit to Embassy in Hungary. research and academic Hungary by Prof. Weinblatt The purpose of the general management. The two parties and Dr. Sharon Pardo, the agreement is to improve, will conclude more specific Director of the Centre for the 2 NEWSLETTER OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV I Ladislaus Laszt Ecumenical and Social Concern Award Presented to Father Patrick Desbois the prize, “but there were valuables. “Himmler used witnesses; people who were to say, ‘Who remembers the children and teenagers then killing of the Armenians?’ are able to point to a place I cannot accept that in 20 and say, ‘Here is where they years people will say, ‘Who were buried.’” remembers the massacre of the Jews and gypsies?’” he said. Founded in 2004, Yahad- In Unum now employs 15 First presented in 1985, the people who are engaged Award honors “religious in searching the Soviet and personalities of international German archives in their quest repute who advance the to document the killing of the causes of tolerance, hope and 1.5 million Jews of the region. vision.” Speaking on behalf of They make some 15 trips the family, Professor Emeritus annually to the region. But, he Moshe Dariel spoke directly to President Prof. Rivka Carmi and Father Patrick Desbois warns, it is a race against time, Desbois in French and noted as he believes that in the next that “his work truly embodies “I am not optimistic, but I am in mass shootings throughout five to six years there won’t be the values that the Prize was a fighter,” said Father Patrick the Ukraine, Belarus and anyone left who remembers created to recognize.” Desbois, President of the Russia. the horrific events that took Yahad-In Unum organization place from 1941-1945. University President Prof. in France, on receiving the Father Desbois’ life mission Rivka Carmi praised Father Ladislaus Laszt Ecumenical began as a personal journey “Our mission is to gather Desbois for his important and Social Concern Award at to understand the stories of the maximum amount of work and presented him Ben-Gurion University of the his grandfather. He became evidence because the number with a scroll that read: “For Negev as part of Holocaust haunted by the history of the of deniers is growing,” he his noteworthy devotion to Remembrance Day. Nazis in Ukraine as a child explained, noting that they use fostering Christian-Jewish growing up on the family ballistic experts to document understanding and for his Father Desbois, a French farm in the Bresse region of the ammunition used in the heroic efforts, as President of Catholic priest, has devoted eastern France. His paternal killings, findings which are the organization, in revealing his life to researching the grandfather, who was cross referenced and checked the atrocities perpetrated Holocaust, fighting anti- deported to a prison camp against the archival material. by the Nazis through its Semitism and furthering the for French soldiers on the “We don’t ask people how courageous attempts to relations between Catholics Ukrainian side of the Polish they feel about what they saw. gather testimonies and locate and Jews. He is the Director border, told the family nothing We ask them to point out in hundreds of mass graves; of the French Conference of about the experience. But he what direction the people his deep commitment to Bishops for relations with confessed to his relentlessly went and how the killing was ensuring a respectful burial Judaism, Advisor to the curious grandson, “For us it done.” for the unnamed victims Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon, was bad; for ‘others’ it was of the Holocaust and his and Advisor to the Vatican on worse.” “We cannot build a modern renouncement of all acts of the Jewish religion.
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