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Jan 2, 2008 -- From ancient Rome and Persia to modern-day Israel, the research presented at this year’s Schneier Center Research Night in December focused on conflict and cohesion across the world from the time of the Talmud until today. Now in its third year, the event showcases the work of…

Dec 31, 2007 -- New York, NY, December 31, 2007 – Business and the rabbinate may seem to be disparate areas of study, but as Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) is demonstrating, the rabbi has much in common with a business executive. At two three-day long seminars, held from ...

Dec 31, 2007 -- In discovering the genes responsible for storing fat in cells, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have answered one of biology’s most fundamental questions. Their findings, which appear in the December 17 to 21 “Early Edition” online issue of the Proceedings of the ...

Dec 28, 2007 -- Hayley McDaid, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and of molecular pharmacology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has received a $100,000 grant from Joan’s Legacy: The Joan Scarangello Foundation to Conquer Lung Cancer for her research of lung cancer. The grant, which is ...

Dec 25, 2007 -- “You just got out of a movie at AMC-25 on 42nd Street. You’re looking for a place to eat that is as good as Kosher Delight but is a bit off the beaten path. You’re hungry. No, you’re starving. You’re a Jew, strictly kosher. What do you do?” So begins the first issue of DiningVille,…

Dec 18, 2007 -- Wurzweiler's First Fulbright Senior Specialist In February, Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, DSW, associate dean and professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, will travel to Beersheba, Israel, as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Hendricks is the first faculty member from Wurzweiler to be…

Dec 13, 2007 -- At Yeshiva University’s 83rd Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation at the Waldorf-Astoria on December 9, President Richard M. Joel honored a fellow leader in the academic community who led his institution through one of the worst natural disasters in US history. Dr. Scott S. Cowen…

Dec 12, 2007 -- Allen M. Spiegel, MD, The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been elected a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine, a nonpartisan institution whose mission is to enhance the health of the public. The board, which currently consists of…

Dec 11, 2007 -- A recent bone marrow drive held by the Yeshiva University Student Medical Ethics Society was so successful that on its first day, the station on the Wilf Campus had to close early, surpassing its total two-day target of 75 students. Having run out of the necessary materials to ...

Dec 10, 2007 -- On Friday, November 30, a story in the New York Law Journal provided the bar exam passage rates for all schools in New York State. As reporter Tom Adcock put it in the lead: "A long tradition was smashed by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, whose 289 graduates sitting for the…