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Dec 26, 2006 -- Contact: Karen Gardner EMBARGOED UNTIL (718) 430-3101 Monday, December 25, 2006 kgardner@aecom.yu.edu @ 4 p.m. Gene Tied to Longevity Also Preserves Ability to Think Clearly and Could Help Delay Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease December 25, 2006 (Bronx, NY) — A gene variant linked to ...

Dec 21, 2006 -- Yeshiva University undergraduates are using their semester break to help others and have an impact on the world. The Center for the Jewish Future is organizing a humanitarian mission to Central America in conjunction with the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) as part of the 2007…

Dec 19, 2006 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel and Karen Bacon, the Monique C. Katz Dean of Stern College for Women, were among 14 leaders in Jewish higher education and college students who met with President Bush on Monday for his annual Hanukkah meeting. President Bush chooses a ...

Dec 14, 2006 -- The presidents of the three New York City universities ranked in the top tier of national research universities by US News & World Report recently sat down for “An Armchair Conversation” at The Jewish Center on the Upper West Side. YU President Richard Joel served as moderator…

Dec 11, 2006 -- Sen. John McCain called Israel a “great democracy” and proclaimed that the United States “will defeat terrorism against America, and we will stand with Israel as she fights the same enemy,” in his address at Yeshiva University’s 82nd Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Dec. 10…

Dec 6, 2006 -- “Is Early Childhood Too Early for Hebrew?” This was the question posed by Tani Foger, EdD, a 2006 graduate of Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and a school psychologist, at the inaugural colloquium of the new Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Division of Doctoral…

Dec 4, 2006 -- “Organizing an international conference is a big, big thing,” said Gabriel Cwilich, PhD, associate professor of physics at Yeshiva College, before leaving in early December for the Pan-American Scientific Institute in Mar del Plata, Argentina, which he and YC physics professors Fredy…

Dec 4, 2006 -- Dr. Cynthia M. Friend, T.W. Richards Professor of Chemistry, professor of materials science, and chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, presented the 16th Ira Kukin Chemistry Lecture, "The Wonderful World of Surfaces," at Yeshiva University…

Dec 2, 2005 -- Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University and Senior Scholar at YU’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF), addressed YU alumni, students and educators during his recent visit to Israel. Audiences in Ramat Bet Shemesh,…

Nov 20, 2006 -- Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have received a $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study tumor “microenvironments” — where tumors interact with surrounding tissues, cells and chemicals in ways that all too often ...