Our study about public engagement with particle physics on CERN’s social media platforms has been covered on the Technion website, on the Times of Israel (in English) and on nrg, News1 and Zman Tsafon Sharon (in Hebrew)!

Check out this coverage of Yaela’s Ph.D. project and related air quality research on the Zavit website, in a story entitled “There’s Something in the Air” (in Hebrew).

Sophie gave this fascinating interview to Ynet, published a few days ago (in Hebrew). Here’s a key quote:

Q: What message do you want to convey to parents who discover that their child has a hearing impairment?
A: “The top message I want to convey is a sentence I once ran into: Behind children who believe in themselves, there are parents who believed in them first.”

Check out this Walla! story (in Hebrew) regarding the round table discussion Ayelet organized on May 19^th about health and science coverage at the Second Authority for Television and Radio. The event brought together science and health reporters from various Israeli media outlets with scientists, physicians and other science communicators. (PDF version)

Ayelet has been elected as one of the seven new members of the Israel Young Academy! (See announcement in Hebrew.)

Also, check out our new publication in PLOS ONE:

Kahle, K., Sharon, A. J., & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2016). Footprints of Fascination: Digital Traces of Public Engagement with Particle Physics on CERN’s Social Media Platforms. PLOS ONE, 11(5), e0156409. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156409

You are invited to join us at the seminar entitled Citizen Science Between the Disciplines on Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, organized by Ayelet. Some of the talks will be delivered in Hebrew and others in English.

Presenters will include Dr. Moshe Elhanati (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Denisa Kera (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Assaf Shwartz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology).

Ayelet will be giving a talk (in Hebrew) about “Science Communication in Israel and Around the World” at a conference entitled “How to Connect People to Science?” at the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, on Thursday, June 30, 2016.

Check out Prof. Bruce Lewenstein’s newly published interview with Globes (in Hebrew).

The interview was conducted when Bruce was our special guest at the Sixth Israeli Science Communication Conference in June 2015.

Check out this profile of Ayelet on the Technion website: “Grades should serve the learning process”.

Ayelet was quoted as saying:

“I worry that at the Technion sometimes we forget the difference between grading and teaching. It is a mistake to think that if everyone is succeeding then we have blundered along the way or vice versa – if everyone is doing poorly then the course level is very high. My goal is to teach so that everyone understands. If all my students were to receive an ‘A+’ I would have a great sense of achievement.”

Ayelet won the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education. This prize is awarded by the Technion in appreciation of:

“[…] faculty members, who set an example through their endless contributions to teaching and learning and for their efforts to improve student involvement and sense of belonging to the Technion.”

Eleven faculty members won this year. Each won NIS 100,000 (over $25,000)!

See related coverage on ynet (in Hebrew).