YU News

Dec 21, 2004 -- Entering college brings with it a host of changes in students’ lives: greater responsibilities, a rigorous course load, a new community, social pressures, and for some, a foreign language. In fact, entering college ranks as one of the top 25 stressful life-changing events on most ...

Dec 17, 2004 -- Under the direction of Thea Volpe, PhD, the academic Advising Center on the Wilf Campus will offer Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business students a number of supportive services to help them realize academic goals. In keeping with President Richard M. Joel’s vision of ...

Dec 17, 2003 -- Yeshiva University (YU) President Richard M. Joel traveled to Toronto, Canada, on Dec. 2 for a two-day trip, his first official visit to Canada as president of YU. Accompanied by Dr. Herbert C. Dobrinsky, vice president of university affairs and liaison to the Canadian Jewish ...

Dec 16, 2004 -- On the third day of Hanukkah, a team of YU students brightened the day of children ages 2-10 in New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s children’s ward. Students from the Wilf and Beren campuses joined YU band Midnite Remedy in a Hanukkah celebration, one of many such programs run at the…

Dec 15, 2004 -- Through a partnership announced recently between Stern College for Women and New York University’s Sackler Institute, Stern students will receive opportunities to conduct research at NYU Medical Center. The program will be available to third- and fourth-year students who submit ...

Dec 15, 2004 -- A group of Stern College for Women students has collaborated with their professors to publish their cutting-edge scientific research. The students, each of whom contributed significantly to research conducted during either the school year or the summer, are listed as coauthors with…

Dec 15, 2004 -- Kollel Yom Rishon, YU’s weekly Sunday learning series for men wishing to continue their commitment to Torah study, held a “Hanukkah Extravaganza” Dec. 12. The program consisted of shiurim (lectures) on Hanukkah themes by roshei yeshiva (professors of Talmud) of YU’s affiliated Rabbi…

Dec 14, 2004 -- Abraham J. Twerski, MD, an international authority on chemical dependency who is associate professor of psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and former clinical director of the Department of Psychiatry at the city’s St. Francis Hospital, was the featured speaker…

Dec 13, 2004 -- Yeshiva University honored four of its extraordinary communal leaders and philanthropists and Dominick P. Purpura, MD, the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at the university’s 80th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, Dec. 12, at…

Dec 10, 2004 -- The distinguished group of rabbis invited to the White House to celebrate the lighting of the White House Hanukkah candles by President George Bush included Chancellor Norman Lamm and YU’s soon-to-be Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future, Rabbi Kenneth Brander. President Bush ...