To do the job properly, one must have the proper tools. That was the message of the African participants in a week-long workshop in February of Pears Foundation alumni of the International Master of Public Health program of the Braun Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine. A feature of the workshop was [...]

Dr. Limor Shifman of Hebrew U and Dafna Lemish of Tel Aviv U studied the current state of blonde jokes. Their research was published in the journal Society. In case you thought that blond hair and low IQ really are connected genetically, well, this probably isn’t the case. Very possibly, argue Shifman and Lemish, men [...]

If there is more than one cell phone per person in a country, what does that say about the country? And, by the way, keep in mind that in a list of 212 countries from 2007, Canada only came in 112th place with a mere 0.576 phones per person. The United States was 72nd on [...]

Our brains are so precious to us and yet we still know so little about them. I am truly in awe when I think – using my brain – about this wonderful organ but researchers at Hebrew U don’t let any awestruck feelings get in the way of forging ahead to try to understand the [...]

I’m sorry if you don’t get what big news this is but it turns out that a new gate is being built on the Hebrew U campus where I got my B.Sc. in nutrition. The faculty of agriculture, food and environmental sciences of Hebrew U in Rechovot (now to be called the Robert H. Smith [...]

When I read about Vered Kater, a senior faculty member at Hadassah’s Hebrew University School of Nursing in Jerusalem, I noticed how actually she has lived at least three lives until now. On July 8 she spoke to around 50 people at the St. Louis Chapter of Hadassah on July 8 about Hadassah’s hospitals’ vital [...]