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Recipients 2008

Future Time Dimension - Geosciences

Greenberg Eran

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Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"Single Station Remote Sensing of Global and
Regional Lightning Activity Using ELF/VLF Radio Waves"
Summary of Research, July 2008


Kehrwald Natalie

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School of Earth Sciences , The Ohio State University, USA
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Title of Research:
"Monsoon Variability Recorded in High-altitude Ice Cores"
Summary of Research, July 2008

 

Lehahn Yoav

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Artment of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Biological Productivity and
Distribution of Suspended Matter in the Eastern Mediterranean
Surface Waters"
Summary of Research, September 2008

 

Saenz James

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Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Title of Research:
"Developing a Molecular Proxy for Marine Cyanobacteria"

 

Shenkar Noa

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Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"Molecular Versus Morphological Approaches to Systematics
of the Class Ascidiacea (Phylum: Chordata)"
Summary of Research, July 2008

Wei Lijia

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Department of Geography , The Ohio State University, USA

Title of Research:
"Statistical Analysis of the Atmosphere's Chemical History Recorded in the Greenland (PARCA) Ice Cores"

Zinevich Artem

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The Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University , Israel

Title of Research:
"Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Precipitation by Microwave Networks"

 

Present Time Dimension - Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment

Abu Hamed Tareq

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Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Minnesota, USA

Title of Research:
"The Production of Solar Hydrogen by Two-Step Water Splitting Thermochemical Cycle"


Barkay Tamar

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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"Corporations as Environmental and Social Players:The case of Coca Cola (Israel)"
Summary of Research, September 2008


Buchanan Nicholas

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Program in Science, Technology, and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Title of Research:

"Negotating Nature: Expertise and Environment Along the Klamath River"|
Summary of Research, September 2008


Engle Nathan

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School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, USA
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Title of Research:

"Assessing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of
United States Water Systems to Climate Change"
Summary of Research, July 2008


Kirchhoff Christine

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School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, USA

Title of Research:
"Integrating Science into Policy:Climate Change Assessments and Water Resources Management"


Shapiro Nelly

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School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:

"Stereoselective Catalysis by Block Copolymer Micelles in Aqueou Media"
Summary of Research, August 2008

   

Past Time Dimension - Creative Rendering of the Past - Literature, Theater, Film

Bentwich Miriam

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Munk Centre, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
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Title of Research:

"Remodeling the Political Present by Rewriting a 'Traditional' Past:
Extracting a Multicultural Advocacy for Individual Liberty from
Hassidic Fables"
Summary of Research, August 2008

 

Benziman Galia

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Literature Department / The Dickens Project, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Title of Research:
"Retrospective Childhood Crises in Nineteenth-Century British Culture"

 

Craps Stef

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English Department, Ghent University, Belgium
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Title of Research:
"Wor(l)ds of Grief: Traumatic Memory and Literary Witnessing
in Cross-Cultural Perspective"
Summary of Research, July 2008

 

Hagin Boaz

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Cultural Studies/History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"Mortal Frames: Death and Its Meanings in Film"
Summary of Research, July 2008

 

Kohen Raz Odeya

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Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Title of Research:
"Women's Dreams on Film"

 

Lipshitz Yair

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Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"The Body as Hermeneutical Site for Jewish Textual Culture
in Theater and Drama"
Summary of Research, July 2008

 

Tartakovsky Elena

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Unit of Culture Research, Faculty of Humanities , Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"The Russian Context of Hebrew Theater: Past and Present"
Summary of Research, July 2008