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Social Work Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) is a legislative event hosted by the National Association of Social Workers - New York City (NASW-NYC) Chapter, the New York State Social Work Education Association (NYSSWEA), and the New York State Association of the Deans of Schools of ...

On Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, over 250 people attended the 13th Annual Medical Ethics Society (MES) Conference presented by the YU Student Medical Ethics Society and the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). “Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?” examined Jewish perspectives on patient autonomy and decision…

Dr. Sumanta Goswami The Katz Colloquium is a periodic exchange of ideas organized by Dr. Kun Ho Kim, assistant professor of economics at the Katz School of Science and Health. The purpose of the colloquium, said Dr. Kim, is to provide a place where people can learn about some of the exciting and ...

By Shulamith Z. Berger Curator of Special Collections and Hebraica-Judaica YU Libraries The Yeshiva News GRAGER Even before Yeshiva College’s first graduating class in 1932, before the birth of the Commentator, students were provoking the administration and publishing Purim papers. The Yeshiva News…

Michael Strauss is the associate dean of the Sy Syms School of Business as well as a clinical professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and director of The Rennert Entrepreneurial Institute. He also bears the intriguing title of Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and in a wide-ranging conversation with YU…

On Monday, March 2, 2020, Dr. James Rayfield spoke with Yeshiva College computer science students in a talk organized by Judah Diament, chair of the department. Dr. Rayfield is a Research Staff Member in the IoT, AI & Blockchain for Industry Solutions Department at IBM, which joined in 1989.…

Joseph Levin Social workers and others fighting in the trenches of today’s polarized society for decency and compassion had the uplifting pleasure of hearing Joseph Levin, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), speak about his life story in a lecture on Feb. 21, 2020, titled ...

Campus News Cardozo Law Welcomes Rebecca Ingber to the Faculty Professor Michael Herz Talks to CNBC About CFPB Case Professor Deborah Pearlstein Testifies Before the House Rules Committee Professor Gabor Rona’s Amicus Brief Cited in ICC Decision Talks and Writing Professor Ngozi Okidegbe will ...

Wai-Ting Lam is a PhD student studying with Dr. Marian Gidea, director of the graduate program in mathematics at Yeshiva University. YU News had a chance to speak with her about a lecture she gave at the SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems and SIAM Workshop on Network Science, which ran from May…

On Feb. 26, 2020, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in partnership with the Wurzweiler School of Social Work and the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, hosted Dr. Eli Gottlieb for a presentation on “Identity in the Digital Age.” Dr. Gottlieb, currently a…