> 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 It’s Academic Prof. Moussa Youdim (l) and Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig (r) Prof. Moussa Youdim of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Director of Eve Topf and U.S. National Parkinson Foundation Centers of Excellence for Neurodegenerative Diseases has been made a Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Founded in 1652, it is the oldest academy in the world for natural sciences and medicine. Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign Honorary Member. Apeloig, who served as president of Technion between 2001 and 2009, thus joins one of the world’s most prestigious honorary societies, now celebrating its 230th anniversary. © 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