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Rehovot Academic Showcase: The Hebrew University’s campus in Rehovot
The Hebrew University’s campus in Rehovot was established in 1942, and is still the home of the only University faculty in Israel that offers academic degrees in agriculture. The campus houses the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, and hosts the studies in Veterinary Medicine.
Faculty members plan their teaching and research activities with a weather eye turned toward the changing demands of Israel’s agricultural sector, while they pursue leading-edge basic and applied studies in plant and animal sciences, genetics and breeding, food and nutrition, cell biology, genomics, proteomics and biotechnology. Always seeking to innovate, The Faculty has opened new programs such as the preservation of nature and the management of open spaces; a four-year study curriculum combining a B. Agr. with an M.B.A; a new initiative in cooperation with the Open University, called “admission channels,” which allows students who initially did not meet University admissions requirements to be accepted as second-year students at the Faculty in consideration of their achievements in their first year at the Open University.
The following units are housed on the Rehovot Campus
The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences
The School of Nutritional Sciences
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
Research at the Faculty has helped improve and increase the yield of fruits, vegetables, grains, flowers and cotton; helped to overcome problems of destruction by pests and contamination of the soil; led to more efficient use of water through new approaches in irrigation technologies; and helped to develop Israel’s annual export of flowers and become one of the largest flower exporters in the world.
The Faculty's scientists continue to participate in the development of innovative research in such fields as drip irrigation, solar disinfectant, development of flowers with attractive colors and smells, the development of vegetables with long shelf lives; the use of genetics to improve the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables; the feeding and breeding of fish and fowl; the biological extermination of pests and control of plant diseases; saline water irrigation; and many others.
Source: About Rehovot Campus of HUJI. The Israeli Friends of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (last viewed 12 April 2006) [FullText]
Faculty members plan their teaching and research activities with a weather eye turned toward the changing demands of Israel’s agricultural sector, while they pursue leading-edge basic and applied studies in plant and animal sciences, genetics and breeding, food and nutrition, cell biology, genomics, proteomics and biotechnology. Always seeking to innovate, The Faculty has opened new programs such as the preservation of nature and the management of open spaces; a four-year study curriculum combining a B. Agr. with an M.B.A; a new initiative in cooperation with the Open University, called “admission channels,” which allows students who initially did not meet University admissions requirements to be accepted as second-year students at the Faculty in consideration of their achievements in their first year at the Open University.
The following units are housed on the Rehovot Campus
The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences
The School of Nutritional Sciences
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
Research at the Faculty has helped improve and increase the yield of fruits, vegetables, grains, flowers and cotton; helped to overcome problems of destruction by pests and contamination of the soil; led to more efficient use of water through new approaches in irrigation technologies; and helped to develop Israel’s annual export of flowers and become one of the largest flower exporters in the world.
The Faculty's scientists continue to participate in the development of innovative research in such fields as drip irrigation, solar disinfectant, development of flowers with attractive colors and smells, the development of vegetables with long shelf lives; the use of genetics to improve the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables; the feeding and breeding of fish and fowl; the biological extermination of pests and control of plant diseases; saline water irrigation; and many others.
Source: About Rehovot Campus of HUJI. The Israeli Friends of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (last viewed 12 April 2006) [FullText]
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