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TAU Unbound - Episode #29: Ido Aharoni and Laura Rosen: the collateral damage of smoking

USA-born Prof. Laura Rosen is the Chairperson of the Department of Health Promotion in School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Rosen moved to Israel in 1986. Inspired by her own family experience, she took on the issue of smoking, second-hand smoking and collateral societal damage - as her main focus as a researcher and public health advocate. In this episode Prof. Rosen discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff effective ways to prevent smoking in general and in particular in public areas.

TAU Unbound - Episode #28: Ido Aharoni & Erez Shmueli: what is big data?

Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Erez Shmueli is the head of the Big Data Lab in the Department of Industrial Engineering. He is the co-head of the undergraduate program in Data Science and a prolific scientist whose work has impacted the lives of many, from digital authentication to digital diagnosis of viral diseases. In this episode Prof. Shmueli discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff the various uses of big data analysis and its potential to improve our lives.

TAU Unbound - Episode #27: Ido Aharoni & Eran Yashiv on Macroeconomics

Our new episode of TAU Unbound highlights the importance of Macroeconomics, which focuses on how an overall economic structure (markets, businesses, consumers, and governments) perform, react and influences our lives. Aharoni & Yashiv discuss economy-wide phenomena such as inflation, price levels, rate of economic growth, national income, gross domestic product (GDP), and changes in unemployment. Prof. Yashiv is a Professor at The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
at Tel Aviv University and earned his other degrees from LSE (London School of Economics and UCL (University College London). His research spans a number of themes, including labor market frictions in business cycles, asset pricing, economic and public health epidemic management policy, and minorities and migration issues.
He has been working on epidemic management issues from an economics and public health perspective: from April 2020 collaborating with system biologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and from September 2022 scientists at Georgia Tech. Another line of research he pursues pertains to the labor market of Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. The latter papers have been published in academic journals and as policy papers.
https://www.yashiv.sites.tau.ac.il/

The Global Connection - Episode #19: The TAU International Students Fighting Terrorism and Making a Difference

In this special episode of The Global Connection, Dr. Yoav Fromer, the head of Tel Aviv University’s Center for US Studies, interviews TAU international students Ari Spielman and Maria Ellul on their lived experience following the October 7, 2023 terror attacks by Hamas, and on the initiatives they have since helped start to assist victims and fight disinformation with fact.
Follow the student-led TAU International Task Force on Instagram or TikTok:
https://www.instagram.com/israelwarstoryhttps://www.tiktok.com/@israelwarstory
Find out more about Operation Manna:
https://www.instagram.com/operationmanna

The Global Connection - Episode #17: Ayelet Tsabari on the Art of Representing Israel and the World

Episode #17: Ayelet Tsabari on the Art of Representing Israel and the World
Israeli-Canadian author Ayelet Tsabari is the award-winning author of short-story collection The Best Place on Earth, memoir The Art of Leaving, as well as a forthcoming novel. Tsabari, who also teaches a prose workshop at Tel Aviv University, joins The Global Connection podcast and host Dr. Anna Sajecki to chat about writing between Israel and the world, the meaning of place in literature, representing Israel’s Mizrahi and Yemeni communities, portraying the self in memoir and more.
Interested in taking Tsabari’s prose workshop next year? Find the schedule for Tsabari’s course and other short-term courses here: www.international.tau.ac.il/node/553/?tab=1

The Global Connection - Episode #18: What is Israel’s Entrepreneurship Secret?

Tel Aviv University (TAU) was recently ranked the #2 university in the world (and the top university outside of the United States) for producing founders of unicorn companies, or companies worth more than $1 billion. In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki talks with Nimrod Cohen, the managing partner and co-founder of TAU Ventures, about the unique ingredients that make up entrepreneurship in the Startup Nation, as well as the TAU entrepreneurship advantage.
Interested in working with TAU Ventures? Find out more at www.tauventures.co.il

The Global Connection - Episode #16: There Can Be No Democracy Without Yiddish

Prof. Justin Cammy is chair of the programs in World Literatures and Jewish Studies at Smith
College in the United States and is also an onsite program director for the
Naomi Prawer Kadar International Summer Yiddish Program at Tel Aviv University
(TAU). In this episode of The Global Connection, Cammy discusses the evolution
and distinctiveness of the language; why Yiddish and the flourishing of Yiddish
continues to be so central to strong multicultural societies today (including
in Israel); and the uniqueness of TAU’s Yiddish program and why it’s so important.
Interested in
studying Yiddish at TAU? Learn more: www.en-humanities.tau.ac.il/naomiyiddish

The Global Connection - Episode #15 The Global Adventure of Going on Exchange

This year Tel
Aviv University (TAU) has the largest cohort ever of students participating in
an academic exchange program. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast,
host Dr. Anna Sajecki speaks with Noa Beit On – a TAU biology student who
recently spent time studying in Australia – and Sagi Yehudaie – a TAU political
science and East Asian studies student heading to Taiwan – about the experience
of going abroad for a semester.
Want to learn
more about exchange programs at TAU? Visit www.international.tau.ac.il/main_exchange

The Global Connection - Episode #14: On Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

TAU Prof. Daphna Hacker is a sociologist,
as well as a full professor in TAU’s gender studies program and in the Buchmann
Faculty of Law. In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki asks
Dr. Hacker about her academic and activist work, as well as her new role as
part of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW). 
Interested in
human rights and law? Learn more about the International Law & Human Rights
specialization as part of TAU’s Parasol Foundation International L.L.M Program:
www.international.tau.ac.il/international_llm

The Global Connection - Episode #13: The International Life of Bats

In Episode #13 of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki talks with
international scientific researcher Dr. Arjan Boonman, who works in the Bat Lab
for Neuro-Ecology at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The two discuss Arjan’s journey
from the Netherlands to TAU by way of Indonesia, the type of research happening
at TAU’s bat lab, what it means to be an international researcher at TAU, and
the similarities and differences between bats all around the world.
Are you an
International researcher? Check out TAU’s open research positions: www.international.tau.ac.il/research_opportunities