> Homepage > Print version > View previous issues MAY 2010 News Research Students Campus From the President Board of Governors 2010 Rothschild Jubilee Foreign Legion Krill Kudos Harvey Prize Research Knight It’s Academic Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Dual Doctorates O(R)bituary Research Knight Dr Hossam Haick Dr Hossam Haick of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute receives the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms). Originally created by Napoleon to honor eminent members of the University of Paris, it is one of the oldest civil decorations in the world and is given for distinguished contributions to education. Luc Chatel, French Minister of Education and Spokesperson of the French Government, sent Haick his sincere congratulations for this nomination, “greatly deserved for the quality of your research, your devotion for a more fraternal world and your proximity with France.” Recently, the multinational research consortium which Haick heads received a record €5.3 m. from the European Research Council to study nanosensors for early detection of lung cancer. © 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