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Dr. Daniel Samet, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), spoke to Yeshiva University students about the history of U.S. and Israel defense coordination and policy in the context of the American presidency.

Program Features Wall Street Proximity, Access to Top Financial Institutions and Internships YU’s Sy Syms School of Business is launching a new Master’s in Finance program that is anticipated to be an entrepreneurial juggernaut, equipping students with the investment skills and business know-how ...

She received ASHA's 2025 Distinguished Early Career Professional Certificate, which recognizes audiologists and speech-language pathologists who are making an impact in leadership, advocacy and community engagement.

Straus Scholar Jason Friedman (YC ’26) spent his summer interning for Judge Steven Menashi at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and assisting Dr. Tevi Troy, presidential historian and director of the Straus Center’s Impact Office. He gained firsthand insight into the workings of the…

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi and Zachary Perlstein participated in the four-day event, “Nursing’s Brightest Beacons: Ignite, Innovate, Lead,” which drew more than 2,000 nursing students and faculty from across the country.

Dr. David Li, director of the Katz School’s M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization, helped design an algorithm, called IDOS (Interpolated Density for Outlier Score), which is fast, efficient and doesn’t require much computing power.

A study in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis by Professors S. Abraham Ravid and Gabriela Coiculescu in the Sy Syms School of Business explores how risk can sometimes encourage innovation and ambiguity, by contrast, consistently discourages it.

In a recent study, Marian Gidea and colleagues investigate how geometry, topology and dynamics all connect in a special class of systems called conformally symplectic systems.

The Boston Globe interviewed Dr. Pablo Hernández-Lagos, chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department and director of the MBA program at YU’s Sy Syms School of Business, on the increasing use of AI by job seekers. Prof. Lagos authored a study that showed AI is highly effective at convincing…

Former Straus Scholar Aharon Soloveichik (YC’25) spent summer 2025 at the Beth Din of America in New York and Shaarei Shamayim in Toronto, where he deepened his skills in halakhic research, communal leadership, and Torah and Western thought in action.