MAY 2010 O(R)bituary “The remarkably successful Gurwin-TechSat mission is complete,” announced Prof. Ehud Behar, director... Funnel Vision At Technion’s Faculty of Physics, Dr Erez Ribak and master’s student Amichai Labin have solved a mystery... In the Swing The annual TechnoBrain creative engineering competition, held in April 2010, was labeled “Independulum... News Research Students Campus > Print version > View previous issues News Flash Technion Trail: Tour of Campus Sculptures 21/04/2010, Read more Watch How One Cornerstone Changed the World 19/06/2011, Read more Israel -- One Hundred Years of Science and Technology Film 25/07/2011, Read more Technion and Microsoft Co-establish Academic Research Center For E-Commerce Technologies 10/10/2011, Read more Google Street View Puts Technion on the Map 17/10/2011, Read more Small Things Come in Big Packages: Video 09/11/2011, Read more International Caricature Exhibition Shows in Ullmann Teaching Center 10/11/2011, Read more Harvey Prize 2011 Winners Announced 13/11/2011, Read more New videos: Richard Karp and Ronny Lempel 21/11/2011, Read more German Order of Merit to Distinguished Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig 29/11/2011, Read more View news archive Pruning Neuronal Trees By studying the small (1 mm) roundworm C. elegans, a Technion-led international research team has discovered how tree-like nerve structures are formed and maintained. Published online in the May 6th issue of Science Express, this breakthrough may have applications in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and in the repair of nerve damage. Read more Multi-Culti Math Two Technion researchers from diverse ethnic backgrounds are meeting a universal challenge - how to teach geometry to high-school pupils in an applied and meaningful way. Russian-born Jewish Prof. Igor Verner of the Department of Education in Technology and Science is co-leading the project with Faculty of Mathematics Prof. Daoud Bshouty, an exemplary member of the Israeli Arab Christian community. Verner says, “We simply asked the pupils in which context would they be interested to study mathematics. We were very surprised when the answer was ‘in cultural context.’” Read more Engineering with a Soul Israel’s first chapter of Engineers Without Borders, from Technion, installs biogas systems in rural Nepal providing sustainable energy and improved sanitation. Read more © 2010 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Division of Public Affairs and Resource Development All rights reserved. If you wish to use any text or graphics contained herein, please contact focus@tx.technion.ac.il