During the course of the 2018 BOT Meetings, we expanded our horizons and had a chance to learn about Bar-Ilan University’s special appeal to students from Asia, and about BIU’s new multidisciplinary impact centers which are targeting real-life challenges, aiming to improve quality of life.

At the Luncheon Meeting with International Students from China, event moderator Dr. Danielle Gurevitch, Chair of the Sir Naim Dangoor Center for Universal Monotheism, poses with foreign students

Two students from China recount their personal stories and why they were specifically drawn to Bar-Ilan University and to academic studies in Israel

Getting a first-hand briefing about BIU’s Impact Centers, Dr. Baruch Barzel of the Department of Mathematics speaks about the aims of the Network Science Impact Center

Prof. Eva Gilboa-Schechtman of the Department of Psychology and the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center explains the critical need and applied research focus of the Depression Meter Impact Center

Prof. Emanuele Dalla Torre of the Department of Physics expounds upon the goals of the QUEST – Quantum Entanglement Center

On a tour of the Jack & Gitta Nagel Family Jewish Heritage Center, patrons Gitta (right), Jack (back right) and their two daughters step into the Abisz & Esther Nagel Synagogue and get a chance to meet and greet students who attend classes in this striking building