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From: "AFHU" To: Subject: AFHU E-Connections June 2013: Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:48:00 +0000 AFHU E-Connections June 2013 thu Image Gallery fb Atw ig,',Yo sp icon itter- luTub ace 2 Upcoming Events The 76th Hebrew University International Board of Governors Meeting June 13-18, 2013 The Torch of Learning Award Dinner honoring Jonathan L. Goldstein, Esq, October 24, 2013 View Photos from Recent AFHU Events Hebrew University in the News Senator Frank Lautenberg founder of the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology dies at 89 At High Speed on the waze Noam Bardin a graduate of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEO of Waze, sold the start-up company on Tuesday, June 11 to Google. Waze is a social mapping start-up that features real-time traffic data provided by users to help drivers find the fastest route to a destination. Bardin received his B.A. in Economics from The Hebrew University. Waze's VP of Product and Marketing, Yael Elish, holds a B.S. in International Relations from the university, while Waze's of Business Develo ment, Samuel Keret, is a graduate of the university's Faculty of Law. rcam-device-Liat4 readmore waze2 OrCam, a device invented by New, more efficient drug formulations Professor Amnon Shashua, is a small designed to treat illnesses through skin camera wom in the style of Google Glass, applications, thus avoiding serious side EFTA00657659 Road to a Driverless Future Epilapsy_d_wg_hglos locate dirty drinking water Hebrew University researchers learn A Visual Journey Through the Years: AFHU The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Robert H, Smith Facultyid Agriculture, Food and Environment Visit The Rothberg International School rothberg connected by a thin cable to a portable computer designed to fit in the wearer's pocket. The system clips on to the wearer's glasses with a small magnet and uses a bone-conduction speaker to offer dear speech as it reads aloud the words or object pointed to by the user. tadmore Rs,vaze3 Itch and scratch, itch and scratch. It's not the most serious physical problem in our lives, but it is common and it is very annoying. Now, Dr. Alex Binshtok at The Hebrew University's Department of Medical Neurobiology has come up with new findings that can stop the itching through silencing the neurons that transmit itch-generating stimuli. vaze5 ;5tadrnore A known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective. M. student Yotam Bar-On and Professor Ofer Mandelboim have shown recently that another, more promising, approach is to focus on improving drugs that boost the body's natural flu killer system. ; bjeadmore effects associated with oral drug- taking, have been developed by Marganit Cohen-Avrahami, a candidate working under supervision of Professor Nissim Garti and Dr. Abraham Aserin of the Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry at The Hebrew University. gait a‘vaze4 readmore The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years. The research effort that led to the revelation and analyses of the previously considered "extinct" frog was conducted by Rebecca Biton, a M. student at The Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology dmore • vaze6 A new study from Dr. Nagai Levine and Professor Jeremy Kark conducted using extensive medical records of over one million Israeli adolescents before military service shows dearly how exposure to the Israeli sun of young, light-skinned children increases substantially the risk of cutaneous melanoma (a serious form of skin cancer). readmore EFTA00657660 AFHU: One Battery Park Plaza, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10004 800-567-AFHU I yonyaBlikgral info@afhu.org Click to view this email i-i a browser II you no longer wish to receive these emails. please reply to this message with *Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: Unsubscribe AFHU One Battery Park Plaza 25th Floor New York. Now York 100O4 Us Head the VerticalResponse marketing policy. Leiry Email Marketing with VerticalResponse! EFTA00657661