Professor Ariel Porat, President of Tel Aviv University and former Dean of its Buchmann Faculty of Law, has been named the winner of the 2020 European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the first Israeli scholar to win the award. The Association grants the EALE Award and honorary membership in… Read More
On Wednesday, August 12, Tel Aviv University celebrated the inauguration of the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research. The new School, which belongs to the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, will be funded with a generous gift from the Shmunis family, enabling a leap in groundbreaking research. At the Shmunis School, researchers… Read More
American Friends of Tel Aviv University (AFTAU), a non-profit organization that raises awareness and funds to support Tel Aviv University (TAU), announced on May 14 that Daniel Cohn, Dr. Daniel Nazarian, and Dr. Noga Niv have been elected to its Board of Directors. “I am thrilled to welcome Daniel Cohn, Daniel Nazarian, and Noga Niv… Read More
Tel Aviv University was named in the top 100 most downloaded studies published in 2019 in Scientific Reports, a prestigious peer-reviewed multidisciplinary science and technology journal. The list, the 100 most popular studies out of 19,871, features the research of authors from around the world and across disciplines. According to Scientific Reports, the study by… Read More
American Friends of Tel Aviv University (AFTAU) — a nonprofit organization that is the fundraising arm of Tel Aviv University in the United States — announced it was awarded the coveted 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest and most-utilized third-party evaluator of charities. AFTAU earned the prestigious recognition for the seventh consecutive year,… Read More
Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel’s largest and most comprehensive higher education institution, today announced that it will launch the Dual Degree Program with Columbia University — a first-of-its-kind partnership at TAU that will provide undergraduate students from around the world with an opportunity to pursue an exceptional liberal arts education and earn two degrees. Transcending… Read More
Tel Aviv University conferred its highest honor — the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa — upon legendary entrepreneur and Israel supporter Mr. Morton L. Mandel. “Mort Mandel is a prominent philanthropist who has received countless awards,” Prof. Ariel Porat, President of Tel Aviv University, told distinguished guests at a ceremony held on the TAU… Read More
Tel Aviv University ranked eighth in the master list of 50 global universities producing the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs, according to the 2019 PitchBook Universities Report. The top seven universities were all American, led by Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. TAU appears on the list for the sixth year in a row, powerfully… Read More