BGU PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2021

BGU PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2021

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NOTEWORTHY NEWS

 A restrospective exhibition of work by Prof. Emeritus Haim Maor, of the Dept. of the Arts and former BGU Curator, included a series of portraits with masks.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

The Dept. of Structural Engineering combined with the Environmental Engineering and the Safety Management units to form the new Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering . The Dept. of Software and Information Systems Engineering launched a new track in data engineering. Starship , an internship program for students in the Dept. of Software and Information Systems Engineering was launched. A second cohort of 30 students began the program in November 2020, learning about R&D processes at 15 leading tech companies situated in the ATP. An internship program for students from the humanities and social sciences was launched in collaboration with the Council for Higher Education. About 100 students from five departments interned for 120 hours each at leading organizations.

A new PhD program in Hydrology and Water Quality was launched at the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies (AKIS) . A new MSc program in Solar Energy and Environmental Physics at AKIS will begin next year. BGU’s Eilat Campus launched an extremely successful certification program for high-school teachers from Eilat and the Arava to address a chronic shortage of qualified teachers, especially in STEM subjects. BGU launched the world’s first academic e-commerce accelerator to train students to establish and operate Amazon stores, in partnership with Surround Ventures and Bank Hapoalim . Fifteen students participated in the six-month program.