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Canadian University presidents Visit Technion
president of University of Toronto and
University of British Columbia Visit
Technion
On May 14, 2008, Dr. David Naylor, President of University of
Toronto, Dr. Stephen Toope, President of University of British
Columbia, and Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of Canada
Foundation for Innovation, accompanied by Gary Goldberg, CTS
National President, visited Technion. They were greeted by Prof.
Yitzhak Apeloig who provided the group with a presentation on
Technion’s role as a source of ideas and talent that is contributing
greatly to the development of Israel’s infrastructure, high tech
industry and national economic growth.
The group had an active discussion with Prof. Moshe Eizenberg,
Vice President Research, who is responsible for research activities
and technology transfer and commercialization at Technion. Ben
Soffer, Manager of Technion’s R&D Foundation explained how
incubation programs have succeeded at Technion.
A highlight of the visit was the tour of HP Laboratories Israel, a
global research centre of Hewlett Packard that is located on the
Technion campus.
Following his return to Canada, Dr. Naylor wrote an op-ed article
that was published in the Globe and Mail entitled, “Building an
economy based on innovation”. It summarized his impressions
of his May visit to Israel.
University of Western ontario president
paul Davenport Visits Technion
Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig and Dr. Paul Davenport
Last November, Dr. Paul Davenport, President of University of
Western Ontario and his wife spent five days in Israel, visiting
Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Tel Aviv, and Haifa where he met with
the Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, President of Technion. The following
month, Dr. Carol Herbert, Dean of the Schulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario, a
post she has held since 1999, visited Technion and met with
Prof. Ido Perlman, Dean of Medicine and Prof. Moris Eisen, Dean
of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at Technion.
eight Canadian University presidents Visit
Technion
In June, Canadian University Presidents, David Johnston,
University of Waterloo; Sheldon Levy, Ryerson University; Dr.
Luc Vinet, Université de Montréal; Peter MacKinnon, University
of Saskatchewan; Gilles Patry, University of Ottawa; William
Barker, King’s College in Halifax and Yvon Fontaine, Université de
Moncton, on a mission organized by CIJA, visited Technion.
The mission was co-hosted by two Canadian academics,
University of Toronto law professor Ed Morgan and York
University historian Irving Abella.
Prof. Moishe Eizenberg and
Dr. Heather Munroe-Blum
Dr. Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal of McGill University, led an
academic delegation from McGill that met with Prof. Moishe
Eizenberg, Executive V.P. of Research the previous evening and
then visited the campus the following morning with the Canadian
Presidents’ group.
The purpose of these visits was to increase the familiarity of
Canadian academics with the global competitiveness of the
Israeli universities, with a view to fostering closer academic ties,
joint research projects and collaborative scholarship.
innovation lab Dedication
The Innovation Lab at Technion, a novel program fostering a team
approach to entrepreneurial activity for students at Technion
received its initial operating funding from Canadian Technion
Society’s TTT Fund.
Judith Wolfson, Gary Goldberg, Dr. David
Naylor and Eliot Phillipson