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Rikki Zagelbaum (SCW ‘26) spent her summer at two think tanks—the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) in Israel and the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) in Washington, D.C.

The Katz School is offering a new graduate STEM scholarship for U.S. students. For $19,000 total tuition—less than $10,000 per year for a two-year program—students can earn a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence; Applied and Financial Statistics; Biotech; Computer Science; Cybersecurity; Data…

As an MBA candidate in the Sy Syms School of Business, Laura Camargo is using her marketing expertise to uplift others through her volunteer work with Women of ALPFA New York, part of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA).

At the heart of Ruslan Gokham’s research is a simple but important question: when do we actually need complex AI models and when can simpler tools do the job just as well or even better?

Recent Straus Scholars graduate Josh Shapiro (YC ’25) spent his summer moving between Washington policy seminars, comparative religious arbitration research and advanced legal theory—an intensive capstone to his undergraduate humanities education before heading to Israel to write for startups.

A student team’s idea to use artificial intelligence and blockchain to speed up disaster relief was named one of 15 finalists among more than 2,400 participants worldwide at the recent ARC x USDC Hackathon in New York City

Dr. Patryk Perkowski's study focuses on two common ways organizations match workers to jobs: leaders assign people to roles from the top down or they rely on internal talent markets, where workers and managers express preferences for roles or teammates, and an algorithm matches them.

In Summer 2025, the Impact Office at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought provided grants to several students with internships in politics, publishing, journalism, and Jewish life, fostering a new generation of leaders dedicated to both public service and Jewish ...

AI student Tirth Joshi's research, “Hierarchical Graph Representation for Multi-Chain Blockchain Routing,” introduces a clear, layered model that better reflects how modern digital finance actually works.

A recent event at the YU Museum featured a wide-ranging discussion between two experts who have spent decades studying, building and questioning artificial intelligence.