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Jul 16, 2007 -- Dr. Michael Ginzberg, a nationally prominent expert and prolific author on management information systems and the international aspects of business, who helped build both the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Case Western Reserve University…

Jul 16, 2007 -- A nationally prominent expert and prolific author on management information systems and the international aspects of business, who helped build both the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School…

Jul 13, 2007 -- A recent study shows that professors at Wurzweiler School of Social Work are in the top ten of American colleges and universities in the number of scholarly works published between 1999 and 2003. Six major peer-reviewed social work journals were examined for the study. Each author…

Jul 6, 2007 -- Liise-anne Pirofski, MD, professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and Mitrani Professor of Biomedical Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The honor recognizes Dr. Pirofski’s contributions to…

Jul 6, 2007 -- Female athletes at Yeshiva University are about to score big: over the next two years, the athletics department will add women’s soccer, cross country, and volleyball to its sports offerings, reaching NCAA status for women’s athletics for the first time and achieving full membership…

Jul 3, 2007 -- Students who attend Congregation Birkat Shmuel, which is located on the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), are the beneficiaries of a new gift to the congregation: a Sefer Torah (holy Torah Scroll). The Sefer Torah was…

Jul 2, 2007 -- Doctors and scientists in training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine are discovering that creative expression can be the best form of medicine for their crowded schedules. More than 50 faculty members, students, and staff have published the fruits of their creative talents in…

Jul 1, 2007 -- In a dog-eared black-and-white photo, three glamorous young Jewish women stride confidently down Gleboka Street in the Polish town of Cieszyn, sometime during the 1930s. They are wearing the fashions of the day: two-piece suits, fur stoles, and dainty gloves. We know only the name of…

Jun 27, 2007 -- Do modern-day interrogation techniques violate human rights? And are these techniques effective? A conference celebrating Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology’s 50th anniversary, “War, Torture, and Terror: The Role of Psychology,” explored these timely questions with three ...

Jun 26, 2007 -- Eight professors will join a growing roster of distinguished scholars at Yeshiva University (YU) this fall – four as senior members of the undergraduate faculty, and four as members of the graduate faculty. The new appointments are part of an ongoing plan to increase the number of…