For the 13th year running, the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa will hold its annual graduate students conference named after Mark Biano. Graduate students in Communication departments or related fields conducting research in communication are invited to submit an extended abstract (1000-1500 words) of a research project. See the full call in Hebrew or email the conference organizers for further details. During the conference, outstanding projects will be awarded Ifat Media Research prizes. Only submissions that include research findings will be considered for these prizes.

Mark Biano was an outstanding graduate student and local television reporter who was murdered together with his wife, Naomi Biano, in a terrorist attack in Haifa in October 2003.