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Student Presentations Demonstrate Entrepreneurial Planning YU’s Innovation Lab is focused on creating a hands-on entrepreneurial environment in which Israeli-based startups can grow their U.S. market potential while leveraging YU’s community of students and faculty experts. Recent student ...

Panelists Discuss Living with a Disability This past May, Project IncludED, an on-campus club that creates programming to promote acceptance and inclusion of individuals with disabilities, hosted an “Open Panel with Yachad Members: Living with a Disability.” The club periodically runs sensitivity…

Noted Musicologist Helped Preserve Hasidic Music The Yeshiva University family was saddened by the passing of Velvel Pasternak, a leading publisher of Jewish music who recorded and transcribed, and thus preserved, traditional music from Hasidic sects. The obituary in the New York Times equated what…

Yeshiva University’s 88th Commencement Undergraduates On Thursday, May 30, 2019, over 600 undergraduate students received their diplomas from Yeshiva University in front of a crowd of over 5,000 people at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Get a taste of the excitement of this special ...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, M.D., chief medical correspondent for CNN, Gave Keynote Address Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a Yeshiva University affiliate, celebrated its 61st commencement on Thursday, May 23, 2019, at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center. The College conferred 156 MD and 31 PhD degrees…

The Second Hall of Fame Features Nine Inductees The Yeshiva University Department of Athletics held its second Hall of Fame Dinner and Ceremony on Monday, June 3, 2019, in the Max Stern Athletic Center on the Wilf campus. The 2019 class of Hall of Famers were inducted in front of over 250 people ...

On Sunday, June 2, 2019, a large contingent from Yeshiva University joined thousands in the Celebrate Israel Parade to proudly march up Fifth Avenue in New York City. In front of myriad cheering spectators, Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, led a lively and enthusiastic group of ...

Hundreds Gather at the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Auditorium On Wednesday, May 15, 2019, the Katz School of Science and Health held its graduation ceremony at the Yeshiva University Museum. Graduates received degrees in management, quantitative economics, mathematics, physics, data analytics and ...

Lamport Auditorium Filled with Graduates Along with Their Friends and Family On Thursday, May 16, 2019, the walls of the storied Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf campus of Yeshiva University rung with cheers, words of wisdom and applause as the Wurzweiler School of Social Work conferred degrees upon…

Almost Three Dozen Degrees Conferred at Ceremony The commencement exercises of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, held on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Belfer Hall's Gloria and Jesse Weissberg Commons, celebrated the conferral of 31 Master of Science in Jewish Education…