BGU | PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2024

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EXCELLENCE RECOGNIZED Prof. Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder , VP for Diversity and Inclusion and a member of the School of Education, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science in May 2024. Prof. Menny Shalom won a prestigious 2023 Climate Solutions Prize, which awards $1 million to a maximum of four researchers annually, in recognition of their work on promising solutions to our climate crisis. The Prize is awarded by JNF Canada, Startup Nation Central, and KKL-JNF. Dr. Odeya Cohen of the Department of Nursing and Dr. Ortal Slobodin of the School of Education, were jointly awarded the William Berelson Prize for the Promotion of Jewish Arab Understanding in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin. The two researchers developed an online, interactive, and effective platform to provide emergency teams with tools that help them deliver a professional and sensitive response to diverse populations. Prof. Bracha Shapira of the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, was elected to the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education.

Prof. Sarab Abu Rabia Queder at the hackathon on coexistence on campus in May 2023