Ruppin Academic Center (), also known as Ruppin College, is a college in Israel, which has the status of an institutional settlement. It was established in 1949, is named after

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, and is located near the

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

Kfar Monash Kfar Monash () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the northern part of the Sharon plain and covering 2,700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . The vast majority of its ...

, and within the

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area. In 2015, it had 4,500 students, whilst the village had a population of in .

History

It was originally called "Midreshet Ruppin" and the "Ruppert School", and was established to provide management education in the area of agriculture, the

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, and the

. In 2001, it became a public school. In 2013, Ruppin and

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created a joint multi-disciplinary center with the purpose of training students, with a focus on environmental issues in the

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. In October 2014, it was announced that

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would establish a center to train technicians in the energy and

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industry at Ruppin with a grant of NIS 12 million. It has four schools (economics and

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, social and communal sciences, engineering, and

marine science Oceanography (), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of top ...

s) and 15 academic departments, and awards bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2021 Prof. Aviad Kleinberg was announced College president, replacing Professor

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Research

Research laboratories of Ruppin Academic Center: * Knowledge Engineering and Robotics * Cognition Lab * Electro-Optics * Judgement and Decision Making * The study of personality and psychopathology * Laboratory of loss and emotional pain * Marine Science Laboratories * The laboratory of materials and neuro-physiological nature and behavior of

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Marine College of Israel

History of the School

The School of Marine Sciences at the Ruppin Academic Center was founded in 1997 and originally known as the Marine College of Israel. It operated under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and its alumni received an undergraduate degree from Hebrew University until 2001. The college was established by Emek Hefer Regional Council Head Rani Idan, former vice president of the Technion, Professor Danny Wolf, Professor Micha Spira of Hebrew University and Daphna Pergament, who headed its administration until 2007. A nonprofit organization operated alongside the college to raise funds for it and guide it toward its goals. The organization's members were experts in various aspects of oceanography hailing from industry, academia, and the military. In 2003, the college became the third school of the Ruppin Academic Center, joining what were then the School of Social Sciences and Management and the School of Engineering. At that point, its name changed to the School of Marine Sciences and it became an integral part of this public college approved by the Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE). It receives subsidy through the council's Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC). The School of Marine Sciences at the Ruppin Academic Center is the only institution in Israel that grants a BSc in marine sciences.

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The school offers two undergraduate programs with CHE accreditation, a BSc in Marine Sciences and Marine Environment and a BSc in Marine Biotechnology. The school also offers two graduate programs with CHE accreditation, an MSc in Marine Sciences and an MA in Marine Resource Management.

Notable alumni

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, aquatic microbial ecologist *

Or Sasson Or "Ori" Sasson (; born 18 August 1990) is a retired Israeli Olympic judoka. He won a bronze medal in the +100 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics and another one at the mixed team event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was the se ...

(born 1990),

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