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Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History and professor of history, has had his most recent work, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945, translated into Polish by PWN Publishing House. The Polish Underground and…

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, published three articles recently. “Cross-gender supervision of children in residential group homes” appeared in the New York Law Journal. He and his co-author Julia Sands discussed the balance between steering clear of discrimination…

Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics, has accepted an invitation to give a plenary talk at the “Quantum Innovators in Science and Engineering” workshop in the first week of October organized by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. This is a…

Dr. Ran Drori, assistant professor of chemistry, will publish an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, titled “Dynamics and Unsteady Morphologies at Ice Interfaces Driven by D2O-H2O Exchange.” This article is one in a series of Drori’s research into the behavior of ice ...

Dr. Sari Skolnik, assistant professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has had an article accepted for publication in Social Work with Groups, a quarterly journal of community and clinical practice. The article, “Coming Together: Factors that Connect Social Workers to Group Practice,” is a ...

Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, recently published an article, titled, “ Havdalah— Emulating God in Mind and Deed: Israel’s Divine Mission and the Quest for Salvation,” in Havdalah, a publication by Mesorah Matrix, New Paradigm Matrix Publishing (eds ...

Dr. Matthew J. Cuellar, assistant professor of social work at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been awarded a three-year $1 million grant from the National Institute of Justice’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative to conduct research on effective school safety systems…

Faculty at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work recently received a four-year $1.9 million training grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services --- Human Resources Service Administration (HRSA). The grant, which continues a previous three-year $1.4 million…

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, professor of finance at Sy Syms School of Business, was interviewed on Marketplace, a program produced by Minnesota Public Radio and aired on National Public Radio. He spoke about a new subscription movie ticket service, called MoviePass, that allows a person to see an ...

Gina Grimaldi, an adjunct instructor in Renaissance drama and composition since 2011 in the department of English at Stern College for Women, was recently named coordinator of the Beren Writing Center, where she will mentor the student tutors and supervise the Center’s daily operations. She was…