YU News

Oct 1, 2003 -- The Albert Einstein College of Medicine has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, totaling more than $22 million, to establish an Autoimmunity Center of Excellence (ACE) program. The Einstein Center is one of just nine nationally that will conduct ...

Sep 21, 2003 -- Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Ambassador, members of the boards, roshei yeshiva, members of the faculty, students, alumni, presidents and delegates of universities, family and friends. I want to thank Michael Jesselson, Dean Efrem Nulman, the Investiture Committee,…

New York, NY, Sep 19, 2003 -- Two noted Talmudic scholars, Rabbi Moshe D. Tendler and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, will deliver the 19th Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures. The High Holiday lectures will take place in New York City and Jerusalem. This year’s lectures are part of a week of ...

New York, NY, Sep 15, 2003 -- Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, recently appointed by President George W. Bush to the board of the US Institute for Peace, will discuss “Activism for a New Middle East” at Yeshiva University on Tuesday, September 23. The 8 pm program, open to the public, will take ...

Aug 26, 2003 -- A record 675 Yeshiva University students from across North America are departing for a year’s study in Israel, undeterred by recent tensions. From August 26 to September 9 students are leaving from metro area airports to participate in YU’s S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, the ...

New York, NY, Aug 18, 2003 -- Elisheva Douglas hopes her research on lupus will help scientists better understand the chronic inflammatory disease that affects thousands of Americans each year. She and nine other Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduates spent nine weeks this summer investigating ...