YU News

Sep 6, 2006 -- Paula L. Simmonds joins Yeshiva University as director of institutional advancement for undergraduate alumni affairs. Ms. Simmonds will be responsible for creating a comprehensive program that will broaden alumni’s involvement in the university and enable them to assume a greater…

Aug 31, 2006 -- While many Orthodox people see the intelligent design movement as a way to reclaim the origins of the universe from atheist scientists, Rabbi Natan Slifkin, known as the “Zoo Rabbi,” feels that theory actually minimizes God’s role. “Really, it's trivializing God –– this movement…

Aug 28, 2006 -- Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future has started its third season of its Kollel Yom Rishon program for men and Midreshet Yom Rishon program for women held at YU’s Wilf Campus in Washington Heights. Schedules for the Kollel programs are available at www.kollelyomrishon…

Aug 22, 2006 -- For those attending Orientation 2006, August 20-22, summer may be over, but the excitement of a new adventure has just begun as hundreds of new undergraduate students arrived at the Wilf and Beren campuses. Click here to view photo gallery. http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/photogallery…

Aug 18, 2006 -- Yeshiva University will break ground on Monday, September 18 at 6:30 pm for The Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study and The Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Beit Midrash—the university’s first new building at the Wilf Campus since the Max Stern Athletic Center in 1983 ...

Aug 17, 2006 -- The fall semester will begin with new quarters for many of the deans and administrative offices at Stern College for Women. Students looking for Karen Bacon, The Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean at Stern College for Women, or Associate Dean Ethel Orlian will find them on the 14th floor at…

Aug 9, 2006 -- Fifteen 2006 graduates of Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools will remain at the university as Presidential Fellows for the 2006-2007 school year. Established by President Richard M. Joel and now in its third year, the Presidential Fellowship in University and Community ...

Aug 4, 2006 -- Students in the Honors Program at Stern College for Women and in the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College set their sights on something very, very small this summer when they participated in the “Nanoscience for Poets” and “Discover Nanoscience” courses co…

Aug 2, 2006 -- Ten undergraduate students—five women from Stern College and five men from Yeshiva College—spent their summer working in a community service project in the Negev in Israel. During the four-week program, called Counterpoint Israel, the students had many opportunities to reach out to…

Aug 1, 2006 -- Students in the Honors Program at Stern College for Women and in the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College are exploring the land and the sea this summer with several interesting programs. The first program of the summer for Stern College students was a…