Doctoral students, Avi Marciano and Sharon Ringel, presented separately their work at the Information and Knowledge Conference hosted by the Faculty of Management at the University of Haifa on 13.11.2013. Avi discussed his work on "The Israeli program for issuing smart ID's and passports and building a national biometric database". Sharon presented her work on "Digital technology and the shaping of future memory: The digitization of the National Library of Israel".

Photo: Nirit Weiss-Blatt beside her award-winning poster

Doctoral student, Nirit Weiss-Blatt, presented her work on online agenda setting at the 2013 Early Stage Researchers Colloquium organized by The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. Her work won a best poster award for Novelty of Presentation or Ideas.

The paper by Nathan Walter, Anat Gesser-Edelsburg and Mafred Green, "Healthcare workers as part of the system or part of the public:Ambivalent risk perception in healthcare workers", has been accepted for publication in American Journal of Infection Control.

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Dr. Eran Keter, a graduate of the PhD program, successfully defended his doctorate in the Department of Geography at the University of Haifa. Dr. Ketter wrote his doctoral dissertation on the role of marketing in tourism planning. His advisors were Prof. Eli Avraham from the Department of Communication and Prof. Yoel Mansfeld from the Department of Geography. Dr. Keter is a graduate of the BA and MA program at the Department of Communication, and he currently teaches in the MA program in Strategic Communication and Public Relations at the Department of Communication.