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Feb 19, 2009 -- Though they wouldn’t be weighing in until the next morning, scores of eager high school wrestlers began arriving at Yeshiva University early on Thursday, Feb. 12, for the 14th annual Henry Wittenberg Wresting Tournament. Then, following a round of opening matches the next day ...

Feb 19, 2009 -- A leading public health cancer researcher, Bruce Rapkin, Ph.D., has been appointed director of the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Comprehensive Cancer Prevention and Control Research (CPCR) Program at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s NCI-designated Cancer ...

Feb 18, 2009 -- Four students at The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB) were named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program after performing extremely well on their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests (PSAT/NMSQT). They…

Feb 17, 2009 -- Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest who singlehandedly undertook the monumental task of excavating the history of undocumented Jewish victims in the former Soviet Union, will deliver the 2009 Hillel Rogoff Annual Lecture at Yeshiva University (YU) on Monday, March 2. The ...

Feb 17, 2009 -- With the echoes of war not too far off in the distance, 35 students from Yeshiva University and other U.S. colleges arrived in Israel to spend their winter break as participants in the Center for the Jewish Future’s Project Connect Winter Mission. The weeklong program, sponsored by…

Feb 17, 2009 -- Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest who singlehandedly undertook the monumental task of excavating the history of undocumented Jewish victims in the former Soviet Union, will deliver the 2009 Hillel Rogoff Annual Lecture at Yeshiva University on March 2. The program will take…

Feb 17, 2009 -- The emerging artistic talents of young Jewish women from around the world were on display at the Yeshiva University (YU) campus in Jerusalem, where 28 post-high school students presented their paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other works as part of the second annual S. Daniel ...

Feb 16, 2009 -- Anthony Weiner, the fourth-term Congressman representing New York’s 9th District and a hopeful for the 2009 New York City mayoral race, visited campus recently to talk to students about Israel and its strategic position in a most unstable region. “We wanted to invite strong Jewish…

Feb 12, 2009 -- The largest study ever conducted on postmenopausal women shows that multivitamins may offer no benefit in reducing the risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease or overall mortality. The study, published today in "Archives of Internal Medicine," also shows that multivitamins do…

Feb 12, 2009 -- After their tremendously successful bone marrow drives last year, the Yeshiva University Student Medical Ethics Society has dedicated February as Bone-Marrow Awareness Month—or B.A.M!!!—on campus. Throughout the month, the group will hold drives to recruit new donors to the Gift of…