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Dec 13, 2007 -- At Yeshiva University’s 83rd Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation at the Waldorf-Astoria on December 9, President Richard M. Joel honored a fellow leader in the academic community who led his institution through one of the worst natural disasters in US history. Dr. Scott S. Cowen…

Dec 12, 2007 -- Allen M. Spiegel, MD, The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been elected a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine, a nonpartisan institution whose mission is to enhance the health of the public. The board, which currently consists of…

Dec 11, 2007 -- A recent bone marrow drive held by the Yeshiva University Student Medical Ethics Society was so successful that on its first day, the station on the Wilf Campus had to close early, surpassing its total two-day target of 75 students. Having run out of the necessary materials to ...

Dec 10, 2007 -- On Friday, November 30, a story in the New York Law Journal provided the bar exam passage rates for all schools in New York State. As reporter Tom Adcock put it in the lead: "A long tradition was smashed by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, whose 289 graduates sitting for the…

Dec 10, 2007 -- For this year’s Hanukkah celebrations, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office wanted a Jewish high school student who embodied the values of community service to help with the lighting of the menorah near City Hall in downtown Manhattan. The mayor’s staff found her in ...

Dec 5, 2006 -- Sumanta Goswami, PhD, a newly appointed biology professor at Yeshiva College (YC), has been awarded a $125,000 grant to do important research in the field of breast cancer. Dr. Goswami’s project, “Identification and Characterization of Invasive and Drug Resistant Breast Cancer Cells…

Dec 3, 2007 -- The Yeshiva University Museum and the American Sephardi Federation bring the music of the Middle East to New York City with its Sephardic Nightlife Music series beginning in December. The three-concert series will explore the rich musical traditions of the Sephardic Jewish community…

Nov 28, 2007 -- Dr. Kaplan Voted Professor of the Year by Students New York, NY, Nov 28, 2007 -- Debra Kaplan, PhD, assistant professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, has been named the Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Professor of Jewish History. The prestigious appointment marks the…

Nov 28, 2007 -- “Composers have always relied on the kindness of patrons,” says David Glaser, assistant professor of music at Stern College for Women, who was recently selected by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University to receive a 2007 Fromm Commission Award, with a prize of $10,000. He…

Nov 28, 2007 -- Debra Kaplan, PhD, assistant professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, has recently been named the Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Professor of Jewish History. The prestigious appointment marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Dr. Churgin, a renowned scholar of Jewish…