The Office of Global Engagement is pleased to announce the recipients of the Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowship for Exchanges with Israeli Universities award in Academic Year 2022-23. 

Faculty Winners:

Harriet Millan, MFA | College of Arts and Sciences | Partner: Ilana Blumberg, PhD, Collaborating Institution: Bar-Ilan University
Keep This to Remind You of Us: Preserving the Maiman Holocaust Letters and Creative Writing Team Teaching to Create Familial Source Material Protocols in Imaginative Writing”

Scott Quitel, JD | School of Entrepreneurship | Partner: Sharoni Shafir, Collaborating Institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel and Phila-Jersey: Comparative Ecosystems, Restoration Strategies & Sustainability Solutions"

Jason Baxter, PhD and Meghan Creighton, PhD | College of Engineering | Partner: Sabrina Spatari, Collaborating Institution: The Technion –Israel Institute of Technology
Life Cycle Evaluation of Wind Turbine End-of-Life Material Management”

Tali Gildalevitz, PhD | College of Arts and Sciences | Partner: Anat Ben-Zvi, Collaborating Institution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Chaperoning” the muscle: How molecular chaperones maintain myofilaments and sarcomeres”

Ellen Bass, PhD | College of Computing and Informatics | Partners: Sigal Berman, Tal Oron-Gilad, Collaborating Institution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Human-robot collaboration for a robotic Medjool date thinning system”

Evangelia Chrysikou, PhD | College of Arts and Sciences | Partner: Yoed N. Kenett, Collaborating Institution: The Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
Elucidating and manipulating neural mechanisms related to semantic memory dynamics”

Student Winners:

Karmi Oxman, MSc | College of Arts and Sciences | Partners: Sean O’Donnell (advisor), Laura Miller, Dr. Itamar Giladi, Collaborating Institution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Desert invertebrates: Neuroecology, behavior and thermal physiology”