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The advent of COVID-19 shut down many things, one of which was the summer positions Yeshiva University students had set up to improve their knowledge and enhance their résumés. However, Dr. Noam Wasserman, dean of the Sy Syms School of Business; Dr. Selma Botman, provost and vice president of ...

The Wurzweiler School of Social Work Community Justice Fellowship Program (CJFP) was developed in response to the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and a resultant increased awareness of and a growing societal demand for a response to the many problems plaguing local and national justice ...

Dr. Roee Holtzer Dr. Roee Holtzer is a professor and director of the Clinical Psychology Health Emphasis Ph.D. program at Ferkauf Graduate School Of Psychology as well as a professor in the Department Of Neurology at Albert Einstein College Of Medicine. He has co-authored a study with Daliah Ross,…

Dr. Samuel Goldman On Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, Dr. Samuel Goldman, associate professor of political science at George Washington University and executive director of the Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom, gave a virtual guest lecture to the students in Dr. Neil Rogachevsky’s Straus Center course…

Dr. Ran Drori When you grab a carton of ice cream, take a look at the ingredients. You might see an ingredient named “ice structuring proteins” added to the ice cream to keep the tiny ice crystals small and prevent the formation of large ice layers that change the texture of the ice cream. But…

Stefano Pessina On Oct. 26, 2020, Stefano Pessina spoke at the Kukin Entrepreneurial Leadership Honors Course at the Sy Syms School of Business about leadership, entrepreneurship and the skills and attitudes necessary for success in today’s corporate marketplace. Pessina is the Executive Vice ...

Dr. Steven Fine The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College welcomed Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and director of the YU Center for Israel Studies, to its pre-Chanukah Honors Luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Dr ...

Dr. Tadashi Hashimoto Providers of financial information have an economic incentive to delay its disclosure for strategic business reasons, according to a Yeshiva University analysis published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The paper, “ Information Arrival, Delay, and Clustering in…

As part of its Professional Series, the Office of Alumni Affairs presented “The Business Potential of Digital Transformation: Rethink How Business Gets Done and Prepare for Tomorrow” on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. It featured Dr. Charles Popper, founder and CEO of the TechPar Group, a technology ...

The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College hosted the annual Nobel Prize Nanosecond Party for its students on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. The much-anticipated event featured six members of Yeshiva University’s faculty presenting six-minute talks on each of this year’s six…