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Well, it happened: Dean Zvi Galil has decided to leave “the best job in the world” and accept the position as President of Tel-Aviv University.  Bwog and SEAS are sad.  Mass emails at Columbia—and indeed, Columbia herself—will never be quite the same. Bwog knows not what to say. Emptiness abounds. Resonates. Echoes. Echoes. Echoes. Galil […]

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No, Zvi, no!

You didn’t want it to be true, but Dean of SEAS Zvi Galil has been unanimously selected as the new president of Tel Aviv University in Israel by its presidential search committee. Now Galil must be approved by the University’s senate on Wednesday and their Board of Directors for approval, the Jerusalem Post reports. Bwog […]

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Why, Zvi, Why?

Dean of SEAS, Zvi Galil—who captured the hearts of every engineer with his idiosyncratic personal e-mails and his Australian-Israeli accent—may be leaving us for his native Israel as the new president of Tel Aviv University.   A senior source at the university says he is the leading candidate for the presidency, according to Israeli daily, Haaretz. On November […]

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Same Semester, New President!

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