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May 28, 2009 -- Sichuan native Emily Zeng was always curious about life and education beyond mainland China. When she learned about Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology’s excellent training programs online, her interest was piqued. Now a doctoral graduate of Ferkauf, she did not realize then how…

May 28, 2009 -- Third-generation graduate Shlomo Eisenberg grew up hearing stories about studying at Yeshiva University from his siblings, parents and grandparents. But family history was not the main reason Eisenberg decided to attend Yeshiva College; he came for the intensive Torah study and the…

May 27, 2009 -- This Shavuot, a group of young Jewish women, all advanced scholars in Talmud, will serve as scholars-in-residence at synagogues in Houston, Washington, D.C. and Silver Spring, MD, as part of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. The…

May 27, 2009 -- The usual academic demands of graduate study were compounded for Younghee “Frida” Seo, a South Korean native who recently graduated with a master’s degree from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology’s Mental Health Counseling Program. She struggled with her English and with adjusting…

May 27, 2009 -- Two Yeshiva University graduation ceremonies at Madison Square Garden, a performance at the 92nd Street Y and numerous singing engagements on and off campus: that’s Yeshiva University a cappella group the Maccabeats' brief résumé since forming two years ago. Sensing the need to…

May 27, 2009 -- Fresh from his year-long world tour performing to sell-out audiences, renowned mentalist Dr. Marc Salem beguiled the crowd of over 100 undergraduate students with his ‘mind-reading’ techniques at a student council-sponsored event on May 12. A Yeshiva College graduate, Salem’s…

May 27, 2009 -- When Sam Blass began studying protein crystallization with Dr. Neer Asherie, assistant professor of physics and biology, the Yeshiva College undergraduate became so enamored with nanotechnology that he decided to major in chemistry instead of his previous pre-med track. Now, after…

May 26, 2009 -- Bat-Sheva Maslow’s graduation from Albert Einstein College of Medicine represents not only the end of her formal medical education, but the conclusion of four turbulent years of complex choices and unexpected rewards. The 27-year-old’s extraordinary, against-all-odds story…

May 26, 2009 -- When JD graduate Alison Brill started her studies at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, she already had more real-world experience with the criminal justice system than many attorneys. As an anthropology undergraduate at Cornell University, Brill taught a literature class in an…

May 26, 2009 -- For Aaron Koller ’99Y, ’00BR, a PhD graduate from Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, there is no substitution for reading a work in its original language—even if it is an ancient Semitic language such as Akkadian or Egyptian hieroglyphs. “The truth is that there are ...