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Sometimes Big Ideas Come in Small Packages: the Technion- Created Nano Bible FALL 2015 SOMETIMES BIG IDEAS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES: THE TECHNION- CREATED NANO BIBLE A MESSAGE FALL 2015 FROM NATIONAL ISSUE PRESIDENT CONTENTS ZAHAVA BAR-NIR I n 1997, Norman Seiden, long-time dedicated ATS leader, invited me to a TECH GIANT KEEPS FACULTY technology conference hosted by the American Technion Society in Manhattan. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING I met people who, like Norman, supported the Technion not just with their AT FOREFRONT 4 checkbook but also with their time—and I was impressed. Being Israeli, I knew about the Technion, but when I heard firsthand about the impact of Technion COLLABORATING FOR A CURE: technologies, I fell in love. The combination of the people and the subject THE TECHNION INTEGRATIVE CANCER CENTER 6 matter, high-tech, was just right for me. Nearly 20 years have passed. I am WORKING WONDERS “We are at a critical proud and humbled to have become the IN THE QUANTUM WORLD 10 30th National President (and first Israeli moment in time. female president) of the ATS. Throughout THE T-FACTOR: TECHNION The Technion is now the years, our donors have literally GIVES START-UPS A JUMP 13 changed the face of the Technion campus, ATS CELEBRATES global. And the ATS helping to build laboratories, libraries 75 YEARS 14 is at a juncture, too. and dormitories, and to support promis- My top priority is ing young faculty and students. In turn, THE NANO BIBLE: Technion researchers have achieved scien- A TECHNION CREATION 16 to strengthen lay tific, technological and medical break- leadership.” throughs that have made the Technion the INNOVATION WITH envy of elite institutions around the world. A SOCIAL IMPACT 18 We are now at a critical moment in JACOBS TECHNION-CORNELL time. The Technion is global. Its collabo- INSTITUTE 20 ration with Cornell University, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, will graduate its CHANGING OF THE GUARD 22 first class in Spring 2016. On the other side of the world, together with Shantou University, the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will soon LEAVING A LEGACY 25 break ground in China. The ATS too is at a juncture, as we transition the organi- UNDERGRADUATE DORMITORIES zation with the guidance of Jeff Richard and his team. PROVIDE 3Rs 26 My top priority as ATS President will be to strengthen lay leadership to help advance the organizational goals. Together with Chuck Levin, I co-chaired MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE VP the National Planning Committee, where we worked on strategies for reaching JEFFREY RICHARD 27 out to a more diverse group and training them to become ambassadors for the Technion—in essence becoming the next generation of Norman Seidens. Call me an optimist, but given the Technion’s new global stature, I see this challenge as an opportunity to connect with a new generation in an area they can relate On the cover: Young visitor Aidan Dubin, to—innovation. No institution does it better than the Technion! Zahava Bar-Nir’s granddaughter, is I also plan to proactively embrace Technion alumni who are based in the enthralled by the Nano Bible exhibit United States and bring them into the fold. They know—through their own at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The exhibit is partially funded by former personal experiences—what the Technion has done to open doors and launch ATS National President Joan Seidel their careers, making them eager to share their stories. and her husband Arnold. See full story You have to love what you do and the people you do it with, which is why on pages 16-17. I am looking forward to my new role as President. We have a passionate cadre of supporters who work hard to make a difference; people like Scott Leemaster and Joel S. Rothman, who are completing their terms as President and Chairman of the Board respectively. On behalf of the entire organization, I thank them for their devotion and commitment. They continue to be an inspiration to me as I take on this new role and the challenges that lie ahead. 2 FALL 2015 TECHNION USA BIG IDEAS START SMALL An observation, intuition or doodle can lead to life-changing solutions that affect people all over the world. Solutions that break through the clutter of today’s busy lives to impact attitudes and opinions, solve unmet needs and create shared value. Our “Big Idea” issue pays tribute to Technion scientists, alumni and supporters, whose brilliance, vision and limitless generosity are changing the world one discovery at a time. QUANTUM PARTICLE COLLIDING Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, a giant in today’s digital society and in the eyes of the Technion, has made a transformational gift that will secure and enhance the Technion’s leadership in electrical and computer engineering. Hailed as a game-changer for its plan to remake New York City into a hub of innovation and technology, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute is set to graduate its first class of students. Cancer is one of the greatest medical challenges of our time. The multidisciplinary Technion Integrative Cancer Center will change the landscape of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Researchers at the Technion are finding ways to harness the tiniest level of matter, with big implications. Nanotechnology and its sister quantum science are revolutionizing communications, computing, defense and a host of other disciplines. What the next Big Idea will be is anyone’s guess. But it’s a safe bet it will come from the Technion. TECHNION USA FALL 2015 3 Photo: Steve Cohn Steve Photo: GIFT FROM TECH GIANT BIG IDEA: KEEPING FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT THE FOREFRONT Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, above, and his late wife, Erna Finci Viterbi. This transformational gift will enable the Technion to retain and attract outstanding faculty and electrical engi- When Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi taught neering graduate students and to upgrade the current teach- a series of lectures at the Technion in ing and research infrastructure. By helping bring the ratio 1967, during a sabbatical from UCLA, of faculty members to undergraduate students in line with who could have known it would begin a those at top American universities, this gift will play a critical role in preserving and enhancing the department’s relationship that would prosper and global competitiveness. grow well into the next century? “I am extremely proud to have my name associated with In the nearly 50 years since those lectures, Dr. Viterbi the Technion, Israel’s leading science and technology univer- has gained worldwide renown as the academic who created sity and one of the top institutions of its kind in the world,” the Viterbi Algorithm, a brilliant entrepreneur, a corporate Dr. Viterbi said. “Technion electrical engineering gradu- leader and the founder of Qualcomm. Now, in a move that ates are in large part responsible for creating and sustain- will secure and enhance the Technion’s global leadership ing Israel’s high-tech industry, which has been essential for position in electrical and computer engineering well into Israel’s economic success.” the future, Dr. Viterbi has generously given $50 million To Dr. Viterbi’s point: Over the last 20 years, 1,602 to name the university’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, companies have been founded and/or are being managed by which will be known as The Andrew and Erna Viterbi Technion alumni, and a stunning 35 percent of those alumni Faculty of Electrical Engineering. were graduates of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The gift was announced on June 13, 2015, during the Ranked among the world’s top 10 electrical engineering Technion Board of Governors meeting in Haifa at an evening departments, this Faculty has been instrumental in trans- hosted by President Peretz Lavie and his wife, Dr. Lena Lavie. forming Israel into the “Start-up Nation.” Featured speakers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, For those not entirely convinced of the central role of including Professor Ariel Orda, Dean; Distinguished the Technion in Israel’s economy, the aforementioned 1,602 Professor Jacob Ziv; and Professor Ayal Bar-David, expressed companies have created some 95,500 technology-sector jobs. their appreciation and admiration to Dr. Viterbi. Nearly 53 percent of those companies have been focused in 4 FALL 2015 TECHNION USA “I am extremely proud to ANDREW VITERBI: have my name associated THE MAN BEHIND THE GIFT Andrew Viterbi is widely recognized as a brilliant entrepreneur with the Technion, Israel’s and corporate leader who has forever changed how people everywhere leading science and connect and communicate. He is the creator of the Viterbi Algorithm, a mathematical formula technology university and used in many mobile devices. The algorithm allows rapid and accurate one of the top institutions decoding of a plethora of overlapping signals, helping to eliminate signal interference. It is used in all four international standards for of its kind in the world.” digital cellular phones, as well as in data terminals, digital satellite – Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi broadcast receivers and deep space telemetry. He is the co-founder of Linkabit, a telecommunications consulting company, and cell phone giant Qualcomm. He served as Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Qualcomm until his retirement in 2000. Dr. Viterbi’s lifelong fascination with ways of communicating began at an early age. When he was a child, his family fled Italy for America in 1939 to escape the persecution of the Jews. Long periods of time apart from family members instilled in him a desire to find ways of communicating across political and geographical borders. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Viterbi began working at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a center for communi- cations and satellite control systems that would later become part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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