YU News

Dec 8, 2003 -- Yeshiva University sophomore Alex Kushnir participated in a major conference of leading scientists and doctors in October in Eilat, Israel, of the International Academic Friends of Israel (IAFI). Co-sponsoring the conference, “Frontiers of Cardiovascular Science,” were Columbia ...

New York, NY, Nov 26, 2003 -- Karen Bacon, PhD, dean of Stern College for Women, will receive the inaugural Presidential Medallion at the university’s 79th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, December 14, at The Waldorf=Astoria. Dr. Bacon, the Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of YU’s ...

Bronx, NY, Nov 12, 2003 -- A team of investigators from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center (MMC), led by Dr. Harris Goldstein, director of Einstein’s Center for AIDS Research, will receive $1.5 million in the next year (and nearly $8 million over 5 years) from the…

Bronx, NY, Nov 7, 2003 -- Dr. David Fidock, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is one of just eight scientists nationally to receive a 2003 Investigator in Pathogenesis Disease Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The grant, which ...

Bronx, NY, Nov 5, 2003 -- Dr. Pablo Castillo, assistant professor of neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been named a 2003 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences. He is one of just 20 promising biomedical researchers in the nation selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts to…

Bronx, NY, Oct 28, 2003 -- In a finding that could lead to better methods for preventing tuberculosis, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have helped to solve a nearly century-old medical mystery: What caused the bacteria in the TB vaccine to become weakened and therefore safe…

New York, NY, Oct 27, 2003 -- Dr. Ronald Breslow, Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry and University Professor at Columbia University, will present the 2003 Ira Kukin Chemistry Lecture, "The Chemistry-Biology Interface," at Yeshiva University on Wednesday, November 12. The 8 pm ...

Bronx, NY, Oct 16, 2003 -- On October 16, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine introduced a new free service for the community – The Einstein Health Lecture Series. That first session, focusing on aging and memory, attracted more than 150 community residents. The second lecture in the series…

Bronx, NY, Oct 15, 2003 -- Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and colleagues have discovered that a gene mutation helps people live exceptionally long lives and apparently can be passed from one generation to the next. The scientists, led by Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the ...

New York, NY, Oct 13, 2003 -- How can faith heal a depleted retirement fund and a depressed soul? After losing his money following the stock market boom of the 1990s, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University (YU), questions the adage that money makes the world go ‘round in…