YU News

Jun 11, 2008 -- Yeshiva University High Schools (YUHS), comprised of The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy / Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB) and the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG), will bestow Dr. Edward Berliner with the Faculty Member of the Year ...

Jun 5, 2008 -- Dr. Victor Schwartz, Yeshiva University Dean of Students and a national authority on mental health, depression, and suicide prevention on college campuses, shared his expertise on the syndicated Radio Health Journal program Screening College Students for Mental Health Red Flags,…

Jun 4, 2008 -- Lay leaders of Jewish prayer services anywhere in the world can learn the precise melodies and traditional format of the Shabbat prayers from a new MP3 CD, Be a Ba'al Tefillah, produced by Cantor Sherwood Goffin ‘63Y, ‘66 BZ, a faculty member of Yeshiva University’s Belz School of ...

Jun 2, 2008 -- Hundreds of Yeshiva University students, alumni, faculty, administrators, and friends marched up Fifth Avenue cheering and greeting the crowds as they celebrated Israel’s 60th anniversary of statehood in the annual Salute to Israel Parade. View a photo gallery of YU at the Salute to…

May 30, 2008 -- Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor in the Physics Department at Stern College for Women, has been awarded a two-year, $45,000 grant by the Research Corporation, a Tucson, Arizona-based foundation for the advancement of science. The grant will enable Dr. Prodan to start a Molecular…

May 29, 2008 -- The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center one of its coveted Clinical and Translational Science Awards totaling $22 million over five years. The grant will support the new Einstein-Montefiore…

May 29, 2008 -- Joanne Jacobson, associate dean for academic affairs at Yeshiva College, and Gabriel Goldstein, associate director for exhibitions and programs at the Yeshiva University Museum, have been awarded a $40,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a museum…

May 23, 2008 -- Calling “Never Again” the 11th commandment “etched in the aftermath of Auschwitz,” Abraham Foxman—national director of the Anti-Defamation League and keynote speaker at YU’s 77th Annual Commencement Exercises Garden on May 22—exhorted the graduates gathered at the WaMu Theater in ...

May 22, 2008 -- Yeshiva University has been selected to receive the inaugural Skyline Conference Sportsmanship Trophy after displaying outstanding team sportsmanship during the 2007-08 academic year. The conference instituted the trophy to gauge team sportsmanship among its member schools. “Of the…

May 20, 2008 -- Yeshiva University men’s basketball freshman Zachary Gordon and senior Michael Pollack were named to the 2007-08 Jewish Sports Review All-American team for Division II and III programs. Gordon and Pollack were instrumental in leading Yeshiva to an 11-16 season during which the ...