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Dr. Sumanta Goswami, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva College, recently published an article in three high-impact scientific journals. The article, “Impairment of BRCA1-Related DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Leads to Ovarian Aging in Mice and Humans,” describes a study that found ...

Dr. Hayyim Angel, adjunct instructor of bible at Yeshiva University’s Yeshiva College, recently published a book surveying the Prophets and Holy Writings. Titled Vision from the Prophet and Counsel from the Elders (OU Press 2013), the book analyzes a representative aspect of each book and draws on…

On February 14-15, Dr. Moses Pava, dean and Alvin H. Einbender Chair of Ethics at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business, was part of a cooperative group comprising business school deans and other leaders in law and the non-profit world that convened at New York University Stern to engage…

Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, the Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values and professor of education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, will be presented with a Leadership in Education Award for his contributions to the field of education by the…

Dr. Marina Holz, assistant professor of biology at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, has been granted a one-year Pilot Award from the LAM Foundation to study a rare disease that most commonly strikes women of childbearing age and results in the destruction of the lungs. The $25,000…

Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, director of the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Honors Program and associate professor of physics at Yeshiva College, moderated a panel discussion posted as part of Scientific American's "Science Talk" podcasts. The discussion, titled “Inside Isaac: A Discussion of Newton,” ...

A German novel based on a book by Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, associate professor of history at Yeshiva University , was recently published by Cosmos Verlag. Freedman’s book, A Poisoned Chalice (Princeton University Press 2002), uses original archival material to reconstruct a long-forgotten criminal…

An article co-written by Dr. Daniel Pollack, professor at YU’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, will appear in an upcoming issue of Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review. The article, which Pollack co-authored with Khaya Eisenberg and Amanda Sundarsingh, seeks to determine whether a history…

The Azrieli Papers: Dimensions of Orthodox Day School Education (KTAV Publishing House, 2011), edited by Dr. David J. Schnall, Herbert Schiff Professor of Management and Administration and dean of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration, and Dr. Moshe ...

Dr. Scott J. Goldberg, director of Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership, and Rabbi Maccabee Avishur, associate director for teaching and learning at the University-School Partnership, will keynote two Shabbatons at the Kemp Mill Synagogue and Beth Sholom, respectively,…