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At the Spring 2025 Graduate Computer Science and Engineering Research forum, the future of technology wasn’t merely on display—it was actively being built.

A team of researchers from the Katz School's Department of Graduate Computer Science and Engineering created a new dataset and AI tool that could dramatically change how medical images are made and used in the future.

At the heart of the Katz School’s B.S. in Nursing—Accelerated is a transformative resource reshaping how future healthcare professionals are educated: the Nursing Simulation and Skills Center.

The Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology has secured a specialized training grant from the Parkinson Voice Project’s acclaimed SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program.

Katz School researchers have developed PolypSEAG-Net—a novel deep learning model that enhances polyp segmentation in colonoscopy images. They recently presented their work at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Connected Health.

Katz School researchers created a new framework that significantly improves how AI understands “low-resource languages”—languages that lack the massive training datasets available for English, Spanish or Mandarin.

In the United States, in 1960, there were few family-friendly alternatives to the ubiquitous Maxwell House Hagadah . From Twilight To Dawn: The Traditional Pessach Hagadah , created in Washington Heights, filled that gap. The Hagadah was the brainchild of two distinguished residents of Washington…

This spring, Dr. Tevi Troy, Senior Scholar and Director of the Impact Office at the Straus Center, is offering an innovative undergraduate course on health policy in the political science department.

On March 26, 2025, Yeshiva University hosted Dr. Edward Breuer for a lecture titled “Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem: Conceiving Modernity in Jewish Terms.”

The Straus Center's 2025 Rabbi Allan Mirvis Lecture featured bestselling author Douglas Murray in conversation with Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, Director of the Straus Center.