YU News

Sep 2, 2009 -- Throughout North America, schools in smaller Jewish communities often struggle to find qualified teachers that will develop the next generation. A new grant from Legacy Heritage Fund Limited will address this problem by providing support to attract, train and retain more high-quality…

Sep 2, 2009 -- Throughout North America, schools in smaller Jewish communities often struggle to find qualified teachers that will develop the next generation. A new grant from Legacy Heritage Fund Limited will address this problem by providing support to attract, train and retain more high-quality…

Sep 1, 2009 -- Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock (left) is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and author of "Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports" (Indiana U Press, 2005). Once again, a major American sports enterprise has to be reminded that the religious interests of…

Sep 1, 2009 -- Groups of incoming undergraduate men descended upon the streets of Washington Heights during Orientation Week on Aug. 25 to explore its culture and colorful history. Upperclassman tour guides trained by Dr. Tim White, former assistant professor of history at Yeshiva College, led 320…

Aug 31, 2009 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a five-year, $11.2 million grant to study the impact of damage to DNA on aging and disease. Research funded by this grant, and conducted by a consortium of scientists, could…

Aug 31, 2009 -- As Yeshiva University (YU) embarks on its Fall 2009 semester, it is opening the first new building on its Wilf Campus, its main campus in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, in 20 years. The Glueck Center for Jewish Study, a 60,000 square foot, modern, glass and stone multi…

Aug 31, 2009 -- Dr. Jonathan Feldman, assistant professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is the co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to study ethnic disparities in childhood asthma. The ...

Aug 27, 2009 -- Sy Syms School of Business further expands the scope of its education beyond undergraduate programming this fall when it launches the Center for Executive and Professional Education. The center will offer post-graduate education and professional development to meet the needs of ...

Aug 26, 2009 -- Every summer, undergraduate students fan out across the U.S. and further afield to pursue diverse opportunities as interns, fellows and researchers in their area of professional interest. We profile a sample of this year's summer interns. Hadassa Klerman, a biochemistry major at ...

Aug 26, 2009 --Four Yeshiva University graduate students, all advanced Torah scholars, traveled to Senegal this summer on a social justice mission sponsored by the American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Sion Setton and Noah Greenfield of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and Gilah ...