Fall Edition 2019

Yair Rotstein, Executive Director of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation As we prepare to welcome the Jewish New Year, I look forward to the immediate future at BSF with great anticipation – and some mixed emotions. (More on that later.) First, let me share some exciting updates. As you might…

NSF-BSF partnership adds three program areas   Nicholas Anderson, NSF’s program director for physical and dynamic meteorology, and Anjuli Bamzai, Director of NSF’s Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences in front of a mural at NSF’s Washington D.C. headquarters. Adding to an already successful and far-reaching collaboration, BSF and the…

Why do we sleep? BSF supported research has an answer From left, Alex Keene and Lior Appelbaum in Appelbaum’s lab at Bar Ilan University. Sleep. It’s something we all do, something we all need – and something that can lead to multiple health issues for those not getting the right…

BSF grant brings together award-winning mathematicians and a rising Israeli star Akshay Venkatesh As two respected figures in the mathematics world, Elon Lindenstrauss and Akshay Venkatesh have known and collaborated with one another for many years. When they expressed interest in working together once more, they knew that a BSF…

…that Israeli and U.S. scientists developed a glue that could prove effective for healing bodily tissues? Thanks to a team of Israeli and American researchers, doctors might one day glue their patients’ bodily tears and injuries back together. As part of a BSF-funded project, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of…