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YU High School for Girls Computer Science Club Gives Students Competitive Edge in Male-Dominated Field For today’s high school and college students, technological skills are more important than ever. Demand for computer science degrees has skyrocketed, with employers across industries seeking ...
Wurzweiler's Temimah Zucker Raises Awareness of Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community Blogging, public speaking, running a website, counseling patients and volunteering: It’s all in a day’s work for Temimah Zucker, 24, a student at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Temimah…
Please read the latest Edutopia article by our own, Joe Hirsch: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/now-hiring-flipped-learning-architects-joe…
YU and MTA Alumnus Joshua Jacoby Appointed Executive Director of Yeshiva University High Schools Yeshiva University has announced the appointment of Joshua Jacoby as executive director of Yeshiva University High Schools—the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy / Yeshiva University High School for Boys…
Research from Sy Syms and Seton Hall Finds Alphabetical Bias When Picking Stocks There are probably many reasons why Apple and Amazon are among the most highly-traded stocks on the market, but one of them is surprisingly simple: they both start with the letter ‘A.’ Dr. Jesse Itzkowitz, assistant ...
Yeshiva College Hebrew Instructor Places First in 2014 U.S. National Bible Contest Yair Shahak, Hebrew instructor at Yeshiva College, was crowned the winner of the 2014 United States National Bible Contest for Adults on Sunday, November 30 in New York City. Yair Shahak will represent the U.S. at…
Scholars Gather for Symposium on Flood Story’s Depiction in Bible and Film The recently released movie “Noah” brought together top academic minds on Sunday, November 30, at the Yeshiva University Museum for a symposium titled “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie,” presented by the Bernard…
At YU Event, MK Ofir Akunis Discusses Israel's Political Environment, Media Bias and the Mideast Conflict On December 1, Deputy Minister of the Office of the Prime Minister and Knesset Member Ofir Akunis joined Yeshiva University students on the Wilf Campus for a discussion about the political ...
As Americans recover from their Thanksgiving holiday of family and feasting, I am thinking about the power of giving thanks – from a psychological and educational perspective. Is being thankful a healthy choice, and if so, how can we infuse our schools and our lives with gratitude? I am reminded of…
Yeshiva College Research Team Publishes Findings on Protein Structure in Leading Crystallography Journal A research team led by physics professors Dr. Neer Asherie and Dr. Sergey Buldyrev discovered a new way to control the crystallization of proteins so that researchers can more easily determine a…