{"id":1855,"date":"2024-05-13T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2024-05-26T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:39:27","slug":"celebrating-a-life-well-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/celebrating-a-life-well-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a Life Well-Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Credit: Alon Korngreen<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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In Memoriam: Prof. Miriam Faust z\u201dl<\/h5> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Celebrating a Life Well-Lived <\/strong><\/h1> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Researcher, pioneer, and most of all, lifelong student: Prof. Miriam Faust z\u201dl believed that religious women could forge new paths in science, academia, and Israeli society, so long as they never lost their passion for learning new things. Bar-Ilan celebrates an extraordinary life. <\/h6>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Being the Change<\/h3>
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In one of her first acts after being appointed Bar-Ilan\u2019s first female rector, renowned brain researcher Prof. Miriam Faust instituted new scholarships for female doctoral students, and a policy of maximum accommodation for young families\u2019 needs. Explaining that in the past, young women had few prominent female scientists toward whom they could look as role models, she saw the academy\u2019s lack of sensitivity to women\u2019s multiple roles as part of the problem\u2014and one she was determined to address. By allowing female scientists to meet the needs of their research and<\/em> their families, she believed, \u201cwe give [all women] a feeling that it can be done.\u201d
Faust passed away this past March at the age of 71.<\/p>\n

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An expert on language comprehension and the author of more than 100 papers published in international journals, Faust was 38 and herself the mother of four young children when she decided to pursue a PhD at Bar-Ilan. Conceding that \u201cif it\u2019s difficult for secular women to advance in the academy, it\u2019s all the more so for religious women,\u201d she nonetheless insisted that with the support of those who believe in you\u2014in her case, a loving husband and her own mother, who took tremendous pride in her achievements\u2014\u201cyou can have the confidence of knowing that your value as a person isn\u2019t dependent on your career. That confidence, more than anything else, is a key part of what enables you to succeed.\u201d<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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And succeed she did: Alongside her research, Faust served as the chair of the Department of Psychology, the rector\u2019s advisor for the advancement of women\u2014a position she herself created\u2014as vice rector, and then, in before her retirement in 2020, as rector herself. She also played key roles in shaping the character of Israeli academia at large, through, for example, her role as a member of the National Council for Research and Development and the Israeli Center of Excellence in the Cognitive Sciences. Finally, she advised more than 70 graduate students over the course of her thirty-year career, fulfilling her promise to serve as a role model for young female scientists.<\/p>\n

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A passionate advocate of open-mindedness, curiosity, and fearless inquiry, Faust regularly expressed her belief that as a researcher for a university, she \u201chad been privileged to work in the best job in the world,\u201d a job that allowed her, she believed, \u201cto give the world something new.\u201d And over the course of her many fruitful decades in academia\u2014in the lab, in the classroom, and at the helm of the administration\u2014that is precisely what she did.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Credit: Alon Korngreen<\/p>\n\"Miriam\n

In Memoriam: Prof. Miriam Faust z\u201dl<\/h5>\n

Celebrating a Life Well-Lived <\/strong><\/h1>\n
Researcher, pioneer, and most of all, lifelong student: Prof. Miriam Faust z\u201dl believed that religious women could forge new paths in science, academia, and Israeli society, so long as they never lost their passion for learning new things. Bar-Ilan celebrates an extraordinary life. <\/h6>\n

Being the Change<\/h3>

In one of her first acts after being appointed Bar-Ilan\u2019s first female rector, renowned brain researcher Prof. Miriam Faust instituted new scholarships for female doctoral students, and a policy of maximum accommodation for young families\u2019 needs. Explaining that in the past, young women had few prominent female scientists toward whom they could look as role models, she saw the academy\u2019s lack of sensitivity to women\u2019s multiple roles as part of the problem\u2014and one she was determined to address. By allowing female scientists to meet the needs of their research and<\/em> their families, she believed, \u201cwe give [all women] a feeling that it can be done.\u201d
Faust passed away this past March at the age of 71.<\/p>

\u00a0<\/p>

An expert on language comprehension and the author of more than 100 papers published in international journals, Faust was 38 and herself the mother of four young children when she decided to pursue a PhD at Bar-Ilan. Conceding that \u201cif it\u2019s difficult for secular women to advance in the academy, it\u2019s all the more so for religious women,\u201d she nonetheless insisted that with the support of those who believe in you\u2014in her case, a loving husband and her own mother, who took tremendous pride in her achievements\u2014\u201cyou can have the confidence of knowing that your value as a person isn\u2019t dependent on your career. That confidence, more than anything else, is a key part of what enables you to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Prof.\n

And succeed she did: Alongside her research, Faust served as the chair of the Department of Psychology, the rector\u2019s advisor for the advancement of women\u2014a position she herself created\u2014as vice rector, and then, in before her retirement in 2020, as rector herself. She also played key roles in shaping the character of Israeli academia at large, through, for example, her role as a member of the National Council for Research and Development and the Israeli Center of Excellence in the Cognitive Sciences. Finally, she advised more than 70 graduate students over the course of her thirty-year career, fulfilling her promise to serve as a role model for young female scientists.<\/p>

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A passionate advocate of open-mindedness, curiosity, and fearless inquiry, Faust regularly expressed her belief that as a researcher for a university, she \u201chad been privileged to work in the best job in the world,\u201d a job that allowed her, she believed, \u201cto give the world something new.\u201d And over the course of her many fruitful decades in academia\u2014in the lab, in the classroom, and at the helm of the administration\u2014that is precisely what she did.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presidentreport.biu.ac.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}