The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant of 8.6 million euro to Institut Pasteur, Bar-Ilan University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science for a project that will generate unprecedented insight into the role of genome instability in eukaryotic adaptation by combining experimental evolution, analyses, RNA biology, and network modeling.

Dr. Maytal Gilboa’s research, at the Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law, challenges the idea that the foundations of tort doctrine are objective and neutral and therefore free from subjective influences. “The breach of the duty of care, for example, which is concerned with the question of whether the defendant behaved negligently, or the factors used to calculate the damages for pain and suffering, may be fertile ground for implicit bias to influence judges and other decision-makers,” notes Dr. Gilboa.

Prof. Malachi Noked, of the Bar-Ilan University Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials received the Climate Solutions Prize, in recognition of the environmental impact of his work in developing active materials for sodium-ion batteries to create fuel cells as an environmentally friendly energy storage system.

The $2M prize was presented during the Climate Solutions Festival, a global conference bringing together government organizations, businesses, and non-profit entities to promote innovation in climate-related fields.

Four high school students on the Israeli computer science team won silver medals this year at the European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI). The team members were trained at the Bar-Ilan University Youth Center.

This week, as Israeli higher education ushers in a new academic year, Bar-Ilan University is celebrating a particular milestone: nearly half of its 11 deans are female, a first in the University's history! The appointment of three women to head the faculties of law, education and humanities, brings the number of current female deans to five.