YU News

Aug 27, 2007 -- President Richard M. Joel has announced that he has promoted Morton Lowengrub, PhD, to the position of provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. “Dr. Lowengrub is invaluable to me and the university as our chief academic officer and as a passionate partner in ...

Aug 24, 2007 -- The government of the greater Paris region has appointed Michel Rosenfeld, the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, to an International Blaise Pascal Research Chair. These chairs are awarded annually to preeminent scholars in the…

Aug 23, 2007 -- Rabbi Yona Reiss, a noted Torah scholar, attorney, and jurist who has served since 1998 as director of the Beth Din of America, the largest rabbinical court in the United States, has been appointed dean of Yeshiva University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary ...

Aug 21, 2007 -- After a summer of hammering and drilling, building, painting, and carpeting, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate and graduate campuses now boast many new high-quality facilities. The Office of Planning, Design and Construction oversaw the renovation and construction of about 40 ...

Aug 7, 2007 -- For Rebecca Halpern, working with teenagers in Yerucham in the Negev during July made the summer of 2007 one she will always remember. “It felt so good for me to help the teens,” the Stern College for Women student said. “And it meant so much to them. Every morning they would come in…

Aug 7, 2007 -- Anne Scheiber, who left $22 million to fund a scholarship for deserving Stern College for Women students accepted into YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, would be proud of the women who are benefiting from her generosity this year. Hailing from across the United States and…

Jul 27, 2007 -- Twelve Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduate science students are taking advantage of an exciting opportunity. They are spending the summer doing research with top scientific scholars at the university’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx. It is one of two ...

Jul 26, 2007 -- With new DNA tests proving that Byron Halsey did not commit the brutal sexual assault and murders of two young children in New Jersey for which he was convicted in 1988, the Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law won exoneration in July for its 205th client. Halsey…

Jul 24, 2007 -- It is with deep sorrow that the Yeshiva University community mourns Dr. Lana Schwebel, dear friend, colleague and spirited teacher, who died on July 7, two days after an automobile accident while traveling with a group of tourists along the shores of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia…

Jul 20, 2007 -- President George W. Bush has nominated New Jersey attorney Shalom David Stone ’84Y, for a seat on the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals. If the appointment is confirmed, Mr. Stone—who graduated magna cum laude from Yeshiva College, and three years later earned a law degree from the…