YU News

May 12, 2005 -- Yeshiva University students organized a meaningful program for Yom Hazikaron (Israel Memorial Day) and Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) the evening of May 11 for a packed audience at Lamport Auditorium in Zysman Hall on the Wilf Campus. The program began with the Israeli…

May 11, 2005 -- Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Dean Lawrence Siegel called the student talent evident at YU’s second annual behavioral research conference “a well-kept secret” and said more people should be aware of it. The breadth of research is, indeed, impressive. Some student research ...

May 9, 2005 -- Yeshiva University students were bolstered by hundreds of supporters from other regional universities on Sunday when they gathered in Manhattan’s Central Park to raise awareness of the killing of thousands of innocent people in the African country of Sudan. Yeshiva University…

May 9, 2005 -- Dr. Susan Band Horwitz, professor and co-chair of molecular pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and one of the nation’s foremost cancer researchers, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s most ...

May 9, 2005 -- Shalom Sokolow of Manhattan, a senior at Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHS) in Washington Heights, received a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship for his performance on the 2003 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Mr. Sokolow, 17, received a score of…

May 9, 2005 -- Yeshiva University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will celebrate Torah excellence by paying tribute to four of its distinguished roshei yeshiva (faculty) –– Rabbi Melech Schachter, Rabbi Moses D. Tendler, Rabbi Joseph Weiss, and Rabbi Gershon ...

May 6, 2005 -- The memory of the murders of more than six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II is seared in the hearts and minds of people everywhere. Speakers at Yeshiva University’s annual Yom Hashoah memorial event May 4 in Weissberg Commons want to ensure that memory never fades. “We…

Mar 29, 2005 -- Dr. J. Ladin, PhD, assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate school of liberal arts and sciences for women, received a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Ladin's research will focus on American ...

Mar 29, 2005 -- William Stenhouse, PhD, assistant professor of history at both Stern College for Women and Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools of liberal arts and sciences for women and men, respectively, received a fellowship from The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in…

Mar 21, 2005 -- More than 450 people, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Israel Consul General Arye Mekel, and Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman turned out at The Plaza Hotel March 20 to congratulate Rabbi Arthur Schneier on his 75th ...