Tel Aviv University News

AFTAU earns 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for seventh consecutive year

  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 partners with Columbia University to launch dual degree program

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

Business and civic leader Mort Mandel awarded TAU Honorary Doctorate

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

TAU ranks among world’s top 20 universities for impact of scientific research

The 16th edition of the QS World University Rankings, released this month by higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, revealed that Tel Aviv University has broken into the world’s top 20 universities for “Citations per Faculty,” which measures the impact of research produced by faculty members. Among the six Israeli universities represented in this year’s… Read More

Inauguration of the Ady Seidman Lobby

The late Prof. Ady Seidman (1930-2009), fourth Dean of Tel Aviv University‘s Fleischman Faculty of Engineering and the first chairman of its Electrical Engineering Department, was commemorated during the 2019 Board of Governors meeting with the inauguration of a lobby in his name. His daughter Edith Simchi-Levi and Prof. David Simchi-Levi of MIT supported the… Read More