BGU | PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2025

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BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV

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(L-R): Rector Prof. Chaim Hames, with the 2024 Honorary Doctoral Degree recipients Yehudit Ravitz, Prof. Allan Morris Brandt, Katharina von Schnurbein and Prof. Michael M. Crow, and President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz

HONORS BESTOWED BGU’s highest honor, the honorary doctoral degree, was bestowed upon Prof. Allan Morris Brandt, Prof. Michael M. Crow, Yehudit Ravitz , and Katharina von Schnurbein at the 2024 Board of Governors Meeting in May. The President’s Award was given to Nili Margalit and three medical centers in the Negev. Prof. Vladimir Zelman of the University of Southern California received an honorary doctoral degree in a ceremony held in Los Angeles in December.

PARTNERING FOR THE FUTURE BGN Technologies , BGU’s technology transfer company, signed an open-ended Master Sponsored Research Agreement with Google to explore mutual academic fields of research. The first joint project will investigate security and trust in the post quantum internet. Microsoft and BGU are launching a research project aiming to identify privacy leaks in the large language models that power AI as part of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative. BGU launched several specialized academic programs in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense and the IDF, including Galaxia , a new pre-military program which allows students to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics within four years.