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Remembering the Yiddish literature great, Sholem Aleichem

Posted on June 23, 2023 (July 3, 2023)

It’s doubtful that anyone outside the world of Yiddish literature has ever heard of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, but even non-Jews have heard of Sholem Aleichem, which was Rabinovich’s pen name. The commissioning of the statue and its placement was the brainchild of Dr. Mark Zilberquit: a Moscow-based author publisher and founder of the Yiddish Heritage Preservation Foundation, whose goal is to preserve Yiddish language and culture which was the common denominator of the majority of European Jews before the Holocaust. This foundation was among the donors to the project, as was the Blavatnik family whose foundation engages in international philanthropy – mostly in education and culture – and is well known for its sterling support of London’s Tate Gallery. […]

Imperial War Museum London reveals opening date of new war galleries

Posted on June 13, 2023 (June 19, 2023)

Imperial War Museums (IWM) is to open its new war-focussed art galleries in November at Imperial War Museum London, it has announced. The permanent galleries are said to be the UK’s first to “explore how artists, photographers and filmmakers together bear witness to, document and tell the story of conflict, and the public’s understanding of war”. The Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries will open at IWM London on 10 November 2023, ahead of Remembrance Sunday. […]

A prize of 100 thousand dollars: these are the researchers of the future of Israel

Posted on June 8, 2023 (June 22, 2023)

The 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel awards ceremony was held last night (Wednesday) at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv, in the presence of President Yitzhak Herzog and his wife Michal. Three young researchers from universities in Israel each won a grant of 100 thousand dollars for their groundbreaking research in three fields — life sciences, chemistry, and physical sciences and engineering. […]

Behind the scenes as the National Portrait Gallery reopens

Posted on June 7, 2023 (June 7, 2023)

The cost was originally supposed to be £35.5 million. In fact it has come in at just over £41 million. But that overspend, Cullinan says, was deliberate, after the gallery received an “extra” £10 million donation from Leonard Blavatnik, the industrialist who has become Britain’s most generous arts benefactor. “Doing what we wanted to do for £35 million was always going to be tight,” Cullinan says. “The extra money from the Blavatnik Foundation enabled us to concentrate on quality.” […]

Blavatnik Fund Invests in Technology for the Diagnosis of Heart Disease

Posted on June 5, 2023 (June 19, 2023)

What differentiates the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale is the opportunity to work with consultants to further develop and promote Yale faculty-led projects. This year’s awardees include Rohan Khera, MD, MS, an assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine) and biostatistics (health informatics) at the Yale School of Medicine. The project, ENSIGHT-AI, focuses on enhancing the detection capabilities of electrocardiograms (ECGs), by identifying signatures of structural heart diseases, which currently require advanced cardiac imaging. The innovative work of the CarDS Lab has received significant recognition. The $300,000 from the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale awarded to Khera, […]

2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel Science Symposium

Posted on May 24, 2023

The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the New York Academy of Sciences invite the public to a series of lectures from the forefront of Israeli research at the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel Symposium on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University. The symposium will be in-person and in English. The three recipients of the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel will answer questions and more in a morning of free and exciting lectures in Tel Aviv, Israel. […]

THE BLAVATNIK FUND FOR INNOVATION AT YALE AWARDS $2.5 MILLION TO 11 YALE FACULTY-LED PROJECTS DEVELOPING NEW THERAPEUTICS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

Posted on May 23, 2023 (September 8, 2023)

Yale Ventures is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Blavatnik Awards: 11 new Yale faculty-led projects will receive $2.5 million in accelerator funding. The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, made possible by a generous grant from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, supports Yale faculty in the commercialization of biomedical and digital health innovations. This year’s recipients will be recognized at a ceremony during the 2023 Yale Innovation Summit on June 1. Since the Fund’s launch in 2017, it has supported 56 projects with a total of $16.3 million in funding. Yale-Blavatnik-funded projects have resulted in 14 spinoff companies that have raised over $250 million in venture funding, and three funded projects have achieved FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) status. […]

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction announces judges for 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 (May 25, 2023)

Today, 23 May 2023, The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction announces the full judging panel for the 2023 award. Chair of Judges, Frederick Studemann, Literary Editor of Financial Times, will be joined by award-winning author Andrea Wulf; theatre critic for The Guardian, Arifa Akbar; writer and historian, Ruth Scurr; journalist and critic, Tanjil Rashid; and Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, Andrew Haldane. The submissions for this year’s prize are now open. Publishers have until June 17 to enter up to three non-fiction books per imprint with publication dates between 1 November 2022 and 31 October 2023. The 2023 awards event, which will take place at the Science Museum in London, is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. […]

The Blavatnik Archive’s ‘Idealizing Zion’ Exhibit Featured in The Jewish Chronicle

Posted on May 19, 2023 (May 19, 2023)

The Blavatnik Archive’s exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in New York entitled “Idealizing Zion: Visualizing the Jewish State”, is featured in this week’s Jewish Chronicle. The exhibit showcases early twentieth-century postcards from the Archive’s collection that were produced in Palestine, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe, and depicts how early Zionists imagined the nascent Jewish homeland. The images provide rare insight into some of the powerful ideals that drove the Jewish national movement in the early 20th century. […]

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