40th Board of Governors Meeting
SAVE THE DATE: 40th BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING – 2nd-5th JUNE, 2012
During the festive 40th Board of Governors Meeting at the University of Haifa we will:
- Hold a University of Haifa Founders Reception
- Showcase the proposed Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences Complex, the flagship project of the University
- Celebrate a decade of important brain research at the Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience
- Mark twenty years since the establishment of the Faculty of Law
- Offer a tour of the magnificent newly-renovated Bahá'í Gardens
- Welcome the newly elected President of the University who takes up the position in October 2012.
Further details will be provided as soon as programmes are finalised but, in the meantime, please contact Tali Sayar at tali@haifa-univ.org.uk if you would like to join the UK group.
Apples from the Garden of Eden
The British Friends of Haifa University in partnership with Christie's, Chopard, Guerlain and Moët Chandon, held a luxury brands charity auction at the Royal Automobile Club.
Under the charismatic hammer of Christie's International Director of Auctioneering, Mr Hugh Edmeades, the auction included unique items by exclusive luxury brands: Annoushka, Bull & Stein, D.L. & Co, Dubey & Schaldenbrand, Edelberg, Ercuis, Fazzino, Jaeger LeCoultre, Lalique, Marc Jacobs, McQueens, Michal Shalev for Ritzenhoff, Pierre Hermé, Raynaud, Ron Arad, Sonia Rykiel, Tamara Comolli, Temperley, Thierry Vidé and Van Laack.
Each brand created a specially-designed apple, which was accompanied by a beautiful present. All the pieces were donated by the designers completely free of charge, as was the magnificent venue.
The evening, coordinated by Bianca Simon, was attended by a 150-strong audience and raised funds for the Laboratory for Breast Cancer Dormancy Research at the University of Haifa.
Photo (above): Lady Irene Hatter, sponsor/designer Tamara Comolli, University President Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
Gems from the Cairo Genizah 30 October 2011
Discover medieval medicine through the eyes of Maimonides
The British Friends of Haifa University have the pleasure of inviting you to an Exhibition Private Viewing and Lecture by Professor Efraim Lev The Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa.
At the Royal College of Physicians
11 St Andrew's Place,
Regent's Park,
NW1 4LE
Sunday, 30th October 2011
3.00 - 6.00PM
3.00pm – Private viewing of "Gems from the Cairo Genizah"
4.30pm – Lecture
We look forward to seeing you!
Ticket £35 (including light refreshments) / Limited availability
friends@haifa-univ.org.uk020 7724 3777
A unique opportunity to see rare documents discovered in an ancientsynagogue in Cairo - Moshe Ben Maimonides' letters written by his ownhand, alongside prescriptions, sacred texts, legal deeds and otherdocuments - a window to the Jewish medieval world in Cairo.
Prof Efraim Lev B.A, Ms.C., Ph.D. (1999), is a senior lecturer at the Dept. of Land of IsraelStudies and School of Public Health at Haifa University. He is a leading expert on ethnopharmacologyand history of medicine and pharmacology in the Levant.
Haifa University is the only comprehensive research university in northern Israel. With themost pluralistic student body in Israel, it boasts innovative centres of excellence in fields suchas Health and Welfare, Education and Marine Sciences.