Bar-Ilan University will present students commencing their studies in the Academic Year 2022-2023 with a special gift: an NFT, a unique and tradable digital work of art, based on figures inspired by the university’s diverse community. Read More.

Researchers from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University published a study, which indicates a third COVID booster shot is essential even for patients who previously contracted the virus. The study was conducted jointly by Prof. Michael Edelstein of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Kamal Abu Jabal of Ziv Medical Center. Read More.

Faculty members and graduate students from BIU’s Department of Psychology are volunteering on a hotline opened in the department following the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The hotline seeks to provide psychological support services to refugees, and especially their families in Israel, who feel distressed because of the situation. Read More.

On April 6, the “Rakia” mission will head for space with technology to test vision in microgravity. A digital vision test designed by Bar-Ilan University researchers Prof. Uri Polat and Prof. Yossi Mandel, together with Dr. Eran Schenker, Chief Medical Innovation Officer at the Israel Aerospace Medicine Institute, will be one of the scientific experiments to be conducted at the International Space Station as part of the “Rakia” mission with Israel’s second astronaut, Eytan Stibbe. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University Prof. Rachela Popovtzer is a recipient of the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the EU’s European Research Council (ERC). These grants are awarded to outstanding researchers with a scientific track record showing great promise. The grant will help her in her quest to develop a cure for rare genetic brain diseases. Read More.

Sleep could be the biggest thing keeping the DNA in your brain cells from unraveling into a lethal mess. Researchers from Bar-Ilan University think the main reason we evolved to sleep was that it activates the systems within our body that repair damaged and broken DNA. Read More.

Prof. Beena Kalisky, a world-renowned physicist in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Physics, is the winner of the Na’amat Centennial Prize for women scientists. Na’amat, the Movement for the Advancement of the Status of Women in Israel, honored Prof. Kalisky for her groundbreaking research and efforts to advance women in science and academia. Read More.

Two Bar-Ilan University researchers – Prof. Michal Alberstein, of the Faculty of Law, and Prof. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials – are the recipients of European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) grants for their innovation proposals: MULTIDOOR and Hypo-Imag. Read More.

A new Israeli study has found that the proportion of women who reported side effects after receiving their first, second, or third dose of the Pfizer vaccination is 1.9 times that among men. Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory at Bar-Ilan University, was interviewed about the research. Read More.

While the government has said that for now, the requirement to wear masks indoors won’t be removed, they may revisit and reverse this decision in the coming weeks. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the Immunotherapy Lab at Bar-Ilan University, explained the factors that must be considered in deciding on mask-wearing and why it is still too soon to lift restrictions. Read More.