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May 20, 2008 -- The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation honored Yeshiva University with its 2008 Partners for Life Award at the foundation’s annual gala dinner on May 15. The university has facilitated more bone marrow transplants than any other institution via Gift of Life’s campus recruitment ...

May 17, 2008 -- Yeshiva University (YU), the country’s oldest and most comprehensive institution combining Jewish scholarship with academic excellence, will bring its unique message and mission of Torah U’madda, the synthesis of Jewish learning with secular knowledge, to the Chicago Jewish…

May 16, 2008 -- Contrary to long-held assumptions, high-salt diets may not increase the risk of death, according to investigators from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. They reached their conclusion after examining dietary intake among a nationally representative sample…

May 14, 2008 -- In the 50 years he has taught psychology at Stern College for Women, Dr. Marcel Perlman has seen his department grow from a one-man show to a thriving department that boasts six full-time faculty members. “Over the years Dr. Perlman has been central to enlarging the psychology ...

May 14, 2008 -- The $25 million gift from Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman to Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, one of the largest in its 53-year history, will support several important research projects, most of them to be conducted in the new Michael F. Price Center for ...

May 14, 2008 -- Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received a major gift of $25 million — one of the largest in the college’s 53-year history — from Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman. The Gottesman gift will support several important research projects at the College of ...

May 12, 2008 -- Over 1,000 students in festive blue and white dress crowded Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf Campus for Yeshiva University’s annual Yom Hazikaron (Remembrance Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) ceremony. This year’s event, which took place Wednesday night, May 7, 2008,…

May 12, 2008 -- A group of Yeshiva College students and Dominican high school students from the neighborhood of Washington Heights discovered some unexpected common ground on a recent visit to “Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic,” an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in ...

May 12, 2008 -- Scholars from around the world from institutions as varied as Yeshiva University, the University of Notre Dame, Bar-Ilan University, and Pennsylvania State University examined and debated the small hill in Jerusalem that stands, at once, as the epicenter of Jewish and Christian ...

May 1, 2008 -- A select group of nine Stern College for Women students were inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honors Society in Psychology, in April. Stern College junior Rochelle Sonenberg said she was honored to be admitted to the society, which accepts psychology majors or minors with a…