Tel Aviv University
| Tel Aviv University | |
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| אוניברסיטת תל אביב | |
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| Established | 1956 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Joseph Klafter |
| Rector | Aron Shai |
| Vice President | Raanan Rein |
| Students | 30,373 (2013) |
| 2,270 (2013) | |
| Location | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue and White |
| Affiliations | UNIMED |
| Website | tau.ac.il |
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Tel Aviv University (TAU) (Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל-אָבִיב Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.
Located in Israel's cultural, financial and technological core, Tel Aviv University is a major center of teaching and research, comprising 9 faculties, 27 schools, 98 departments and nearly 130 research institutes and centers.
History
TAU's origins date back to 1956, when three research institutes – the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies – joined together to form Tel Aviv University. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963.[1] The Ramat Aviv campus, covering an area of 170-acre (0.69 km2), was established that same year.
The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo and the Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon.
Academic Units
Faculties:
- Katz Faculty of the Arts
- Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
- Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
- Entin Faculty of Humanities
- Buchmann Faculty of Law
- Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Management - Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration
Independent schools:
- Porter School of Environmental Studies
- Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
- David Azrieli School of Architecture
- Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
- Constantiner School of Education
- Shapell School of Social Work
- TAU International (formerly the School for Overseas Students)
Institutes and centers:
A full list of Tel Aviv University's over 130 research institutes and centers is available here
TAU International - English-taught programs
TAU International (formerly known as the School for Overseas Students) affords thousands of students from across the globe the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University and live in Israel's most advanced city. All TAU International programs are conducted in English.
Programs include Semester or Year Abroad, Degree Programs, and Specialized Programs,such as the International LL.M at the Faculty of Law. Students in the Undergraduate or Semester Abroad Programs are given the option of housing at the Einstein Dorms, just outside the university.[2]
Undergraduate programs:
- B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering[3] via the International Engineering School
- International B.A. degree in Liberal Arts and Humanities[4]
Graduate programs:
- M.A. in Political Science (Leadership, Communications and Elections)
- M.A. in Security and Diplomacy
- M.A in Middle Eastern History
- Archaeology and History of the Land of the Bible
- TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation
- M.A. in Social Work with specialization in Crisis and Trauma Studies
- M.P.H. in Emergency and Disaster Management
- M.A. in Environmental Studies
- Sofaer International MBA
- Kellogg Recanati MBA
- M.A. in Migration Studies
- International LL.M.
In May 2007, New York University and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University.[5]
Rankings
The Center for World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 56th in the world and fourth in Israel in its 2012 CWUR World University Rankings.[6]
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2012 placed Tel Aviv University among the world's top 90 universities.[7] The ratings reflect an overall measure of esteem that combines data on the institutions' reputation for research and teaching.[8] This achievement positioned TAU on the same level as Brown University in Rhode Island and Leiden University in the Netherlands.[9]
In 2013 QS World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 196th in the world,[10] making it the second-highest ranked university in Israel. Its subject rankings were: 202nd in Arts and Humanities, 295th in Engineering and Technology, 193rd in Life Sciences and Medicine, 208th in Natural Science, and 240th in Social Sciences and Management.
Relations with other universities
Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The programs are in English.
The Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law has exchange agreements with 24 overseas universities, including: University of Virginia, Cornell University, Boston University, UCLA, Bucerius (Germany), EBS (Germany), McGill (Canada), Osgoode Hall (Canada), Ottawa (Canada), Queens University (Queens), Toronto (Canada), Bergen (Norway), STL (China), KoGuan (China), Tsinghua (China), Jindal Global (India), University of Hong Kong, Singapore Management University, Monash (Australia), Sydney (Australia), Sciences Po (France), Seoul (South Korea), Lucern (Switzerland), Bocconi (Italy) [11] and Madrid (Spain).[12]
International cooperation
In Germany the Tel Aviv University cooperates with the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Both cities are linked by a long-lasting partnership agreement.[13]
Faculty
Notable faculty members (past and present) include:
- Yakir Aharonov, physicist
- Noga Alon, mathematician
- Yitzhak Arad, historian
- Karen Avraham, geneticist
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Ziva Ben-Porat, literary theorist, writer, and editor
- Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
- Silvia Blumenfeld, curator of the fungi collection
- Athalya Brenner, feminist Biblical scholar
- Daniel Chamovitz, biologist
- Guy Deutscher, physicist
- Yoram Dinstein, international law Professor Emeritus and former president of Tel Aviv University
- Uzi Even, chemist and political activist for LGBT rights
- Israel Finkelstein, archaeologist
- Yisrael Friedman, historian
- Raphael E. Freundlich, Biblical studies and Latin
- Ehud Gazit, nanotechnlogist, chief scientist - ministry of Science
- Benjamin Isaac, historian
- Joshua Jortner, physical chemist
- Shoshana Kamin, mathematician
- Asa Kasher, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
- David S. Katz, historian
- Shaul Ladany, industrial engineering
- Fred Landman, semanticist
- Zvi Laron, paediatric endocrinologist
- Orna Lin, lawyer
- Vitali Milman, mathematician
- Moshé Mizrahi, Oscar winning film director
- Baruch Modan, oncologist
- Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
- Abraham Nitzan, chemical physicist.
- Kennedy Otieno, criminologist
- Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former president of Tel Aviv University
- Aviad Raz, sociologist
- Jacob Raz, East Asian studies[14]
- Tanya Reinhart (1943–2007), linguist
- Amnon Rubinstein, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
- Ariel Rubinstein, economist
- Pnina Salzman, pianist and piano pedagogue
- Shlomo Sand, historian
- Leon Schidlowsky, composer
- Anita Shapira, historian
- Micha Sharir, mathematician
- Edna Shavit, drama
- Joshua Sobol, playwright, writer, and director
- Carlo Strenger psychologist, philosopher
- Leonard Susskind, physicist
- Boris Tsirelson, mathematician
- Jacob Turkel, Israeli Supreme Court Justice
- Lev Vaidman, physicist
- Avi Weinroth, lawyer
- Paul Wexler (linguist) linguist
- George S. Wise, first President of the University (1963–1971)
- Moshe Wolman, neuropathologist
- Amotz Zahavi, biologist
Notable alumni
- Dan Ariely, author and academic
- Fouad Awad, theatre director
- Alon Bar, award-winning filmmaker
- Daphne Barak Erez, current Supreme Court of Israel justice
- Mohammad Barakeh, Knesset member and leader of Hadash
- Rebecka Belldegrun (born 1950), ophthalmologist and businesswoman
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Labor)
- Yochai Benkler, Co-Director of the Berkman Center, Harvard Law School
- Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz
- Ran Cohen, former Minister of Housing (Meretz)
- Arie Eldad, former Knesset member (National Union (Israel))
- Israel Eliashiv, former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore
- Nancy Ezer, author and Professor of Hebrew at UCLA
- Yael S. Feldman, Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University
- Ari Folman, cinematographer (Director of Waltz with Bashir)
- Tal Friedman, comedian, actor and musician
- Amir Gal-Or, founder of the Infinity Group
- Benjamin Gantz, Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
- Dan Gillerman, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, and Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly
- Tzachi Hanegbi, member of Knesset, former minister of Internal Security (Likud and Kadima)
- Doron Kempel, CEO of SimpliVity
- Michael Harris, academic
- Avi Hasson, current Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy
- Zvi Heifetz, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Ron Huldai, current mayor of Tel Aviv
- Benjamin Isaac, historian
- Moshe Kam, 49th President of IEEE and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering
- Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
- Efraim Karsh, historian
- Rita Katz, terrorism analyst
- Etgar Keret, writer
- Dov Khenin, political scientist and Knesset member Hadash
- Yosef Lapid, former Israeli vice premier, Minister of Justice and founder of the Shinui party
- Keren Leibovitch, champion Paralympic swimmer
- Hanoch Levin (1943–99), dramatist, theater director, author and poet
- Uri Levine and Ehud Shabtai, co-founders of Waze
- Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Israeli Chief of Staff and Minister of Tourism and Transportation
- Moni Moshonov, actor and comedian
- Yitzhak Mordechai, former Israeli Minister of Defense and Transportation
- Abraham Nitzan, chemical physicist
- Daniella Ohad Smith, design historian
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author
- Ophir Pines-Paz, former Interior Minister (Labor)
- Gideon Raff, director and screenwriter, creator of the award-winning Israeli TV series Prisoners of War (TV series), adapted into Homeland (TV series)
- Haim Ramon, former Minister of Health and Justice (Labor and Kadima)
- Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli astronaut
- Daniel Reisner, former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division
- Elie Rekhess, historian of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and faculty of Northwestern University
- Gideon Sa'ar, Knesset member and Minister of Interior Affairs (Likud)
- Simon Shaheen, musician
- Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Likud)
- Adi Shamir, cryptographer, co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem
- Ariel Sharon (1928-2014), former Prime Minister of Israel (Likud and Kadima)
- Daniel Sivan, professor
- Nahum Sonenberg, biochemist at McGill University
- Yuval Tal, founder of Payoneer
- Gadi Taub, historian, author, screenwriter, and political commentator
- Natan Yonatan (1923–2004), poet
- Poju Zabludowicz, billionaire, philanthropist, and owner of Tamares Group[15]
- Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi, former Supreme Court of Israel justice
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
See also
- Beth Hatefutsoth
- List of universities in Israel
- Tel Aviv
- Tel-Aviv student film Festival
- Tel-Aviv University Botanical Garden
References
- ↑ Who's who in Israel and in the work ... January 21, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Undergraduate Programs". international.tau.ac.il. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ↑ "Tel Aviv University International School of Engineering". ise.tau.ac.il. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ↑ "Tel Aviv University B.A. in Liberal Arts". liberal-arts.tau.ac.il. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
- ↑
- ↑ "http://cwur.org/top100.html". Center for World University Rankings. 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/reputation-rankings.html
- ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/reputation-methodology.html
- ↑ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/reputation-rankings.html
- ↑ "QS World University Rankings". Topuniversities. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ↑ "The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University". Law.tau.ac.il. April 17, 2008. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ↑ "IE - List of Partner Institutions" (PDF). IE Business School. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ↑ International cooperation – Germany. Web page of Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. Date accessed: 22. November 2012.
- ↑ Finding Zen at the Heart of Tel Aviv, Haaretz
- ↑ http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/collection/people
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