Many of the Masters and Doctorial Students are employed as teaching assistants and are rewarded with stipends and scholarships:
List of scholarships and recipients:
The Giora Meysler Scholarship:
Giora Meysler who fell in the Yom Kipur War was the Son of David Mesler who taught at the Department for Statistics. The scholarship is awarded once every two years to students who served in combat roles and were active in voluntary activities.
The 2014 recipients were Chen Zion Yaakov and Naamat Ariel
The Yoch Vacks Scholarship:
Dr Yochanan Vacks was a Statistics Department Academic Staff member and one of the Statistical Consulting Lab founders. The scholarship is awarded once every two years for outstanding applied statistics or biostatistics students.
The 2013 recipient was Yonatan Sidi
The Gad Natan scholarship:
Prof Gad Natan was a Statistics Department Academic Staff member. The scholarship is awarded every year to outstanding projects at the Statistical Consulting Lab class for MA students.
The 2014 recipients were Tal Katzav, Sho Shilo and Yoni Akrish.
The David Assaf scholarship:
Prof David Assaf was a Statistics Department Academic Staff member. The scholarship is awarded once every two years to Doctoral students that achieved outstanding research progress.
The 2013 recipients were Daniel Nevo and Liron Ravner