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Last December, students in Dr. Rachel Mesch’s course Parisian Views learned about new approaches to art and literature that came about in 19th-century Paris, when artists began to see the everyday life of their rapidly changing city as fodder for artistic creation. They created an exhibition of ...

Marvin Hershkowitz Marvin Hershkowitz ’52YC, who passed away on May 4, 2020, will forever be remembered as a star both on the court and off, a hard-working and popular presence on campus, both a legend and true mensch. He was the first basketball player in YU history to score 1,000 points. From…

Jacob Stern ’20YC, Shani Kahan ’21S, Mordechai Walder ’20YC and Bar Alluf ’20YC are this year’s Kressel Scholars, winners of a Bertha Kressel Research Scholarship, a program established in 2008 by Dr. Henry Kressel ’55YC, chairman emeritus of the YU Board of Trustees and a special limited partner…

Dr. Gabriela Coiculescu Dr. Gabriela Coiculescu, assistant professor of finance at Sy Syms School of Business, was recently awarded funding from the Office of the Provost’s Faculty Research Fund to co-author a study with Dr. Henry Huang, associate professor of accounting at Sy Syms, and Dr. Bin Li…

How can we help nonprofits that need help amidst the current crisis, and how can our students get substantive summer experiences despite the wave of cancellations of summer internships? Right now, Yeshiva University is launching the YU Consulting Force, a new opportunity for our most talented and…

The Virtual Speech Clinic of the Katz School of Science and Health is offering free speech and language therapy to Yeshiva University students, alumni, faculty, staff and their families and partners residing in New York State. The services include: articulation and motor speech disorders expressive…

Congratulations to David Levene for winning the YU Libraries 2020 Student Research Award. David is a psychology major with a minor in English from Yeshiva College, class of 2020. His excellent award-winning paper is titled “ Family Therapy for the Treatment of Eating Disorders.” His paper was ...

The Yeshiva University Athletics Department held its annual awards ceremony, on Sunday afternoon. This unique event was done virtually via Zoom. More than 300 student-athletes as well as coaches team managers and members of the athletics administration took part in the festivities. This was an ...

The Archives Team at the Yeshiva University Libraries has embarked on a project perfectly suited to both their training and the challenges facing the University: They are collecting digital materials related to the coronavirus pandemic and the Jewish community, focusing on Jewish communities in ...

Judah Diament Yeshiva University is thrilled to announce that the two four-year tracks in Yeshiva College’s Computer Science major, one focused on Data Science and the other on Distributed Systems (also known as cloud computing), have been both upgraded to the status of a Bachelor of Science (BS…