New Initiatives 2012

New Initiatives at Tel Aviv University, 2012

Young Faculty Recruitment

• William F. Cohen Business Faculty Recruitment Fund – USA
• Recruitment Fund for Outstanding Young Researchers – Latin America

Academic Development

• Thomas Arthur Arnold Excellence in History Fund – USA
• Renewed Support for David Berg Institute for Law and History – USA
• Yoda Leon Benoziyo Fund – Lichtenstein
• Alfred, Else and Hans Breitbarth Life Sciences Fund – Latin America
• Support for Institute for National Security Studies – Crown Family Foundation, USA
• Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program – Naomi Foundation, USA
• Kahanoff Retention Initiative for Israeli-Arab Students – Canada
• Support for President’s Fund – Dr. h.c. Karl-Heinz Kipp, Germany
• Dr. Bernard Lewis Book Collection – USA
• Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lewis Book Collection – USA
• British Trust 2011 Living Legacy Fund – UK
• Miles S. Nadal Institute for Technological Entrepreneurship – Canada
• Marc Rich Foundation Scholarship and Special Courses Program in the Humanities and Arts – Switzerland
• Support for Institute for National Security Studies – Mr. and Mrs. Israel Roizman, USA
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Harvard-Tel Aviv University Astronomy Initiative – USA
• Expansion of Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences – USA
• Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics – Lichtenstein
• Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics – Lichtenstein
• Sagol School of Neuroscience - Israel
• Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Track in Occupational Therapy – Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, Israel
• Support for Iranian Studies Program and Scholarships – UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, USA

Research

• Zalman and Ayala Abramov Research Fund in Zionism and Israel Studies – Israel
• Alliance Research Fund for the Development of Novel Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease – UK
• Support for Breast Cancer Research – Breast Cancer Research Foundation, USA
• "Iron Age: Archaeology, Text and the Exact Sciences" Research Project – Chaim Katzman Foundation, USA
• Bruno Landesberg Chair for Green Chemistry – Israel
• Leon Tohar Medical Research Fund – Israel
• USAID-ASHA Center for AIDS and Infectious Diseases Project – USA
• Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in Memory of Dr. Otto Weinmann, Vienna – Dorit Knobel, Israel

Campus Development

• Refurbishment of the Gitter-Smolarz Library of Life Sciences and Medicine – Latin America
• Goldrich Family Foundation Project in Student City – USA
• Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Seminar Rooms – Cukier-Goldstein-Goren Foundation, Italy
• Dr. Habib Levy Collection for Jewish Iranian History and Heritage; and Dr. Habib Levy Persian Garden – David and Laura Merage, USA
• Upgrade of Porter EcoBuilding to LEED Platinum standard – Porter Foundation, UK
• Helene Westreich Film and Television Studio – William F. Cohen and Gail White, USA
• Equipment for Functional Genomics – Wolfson Charitable Trust, UK

Student Aid and Fellowships

• Crown Family Foundation Graduate Fellowships in the Sciences – USA
• Eleanore and Harold Foonberg Doctoral Research Fellowship in Alzheimer's Disease – USA
• Israeli Friends of Tel Aviv University Scholarship Fund for Students in Need – Israel
• Israeli Friends of Tel Aviv University Presidential Scholars Fund – Israel
• Anne and George Laufer Endowment Fund for Graduate Fellowships in Biomedical Engineering Research in Respiratory Diseases – USA
• Professor Dan Michaeli Scholarship Fund at the School of Public Health – Israel
• Irene and Manasze Mozelsio Scholarship Fund in Memory of Their Families Who Died in the Holocaust – Israel
• Marc Rich Foundation Student Scholarships – Switzerland
• Shaked Program for Ethiopian Students – Rothschild Caesarea Foundation, Israel
• Helen Sarah Steyer and Thomas Mark Steyer Scholarship Endowment Fund – USA
• Scholarship Fund for Outstanding Students in Need – Yirei-Horbet Estate, Israel

Community

• Soccer Trainer Course – Kahanoff Foundation, Canada