Archive for June, 2009

Gabriel Cwilich Named Head of Men's Honors Program

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Dr. Gabriel A. Cwilich, associate professor of physics at Yeshiva College, has been appointed director of the college’s Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. Cwilich, an expert on wave propagation in disordered materials and the physics of disordered systems, has taught physics at the college since 1991 and served in faculty leadership roles in the [...]

UPenn Holds Third Annual Lecture Named for Norman Adler

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

The Third Annual Norman Adler Lecture in the Biological Basis of Behavior was held at the University of Pennsylvania on April 23. Dr. Pat Levitt, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the University of South Carolina’s Keck School of Medicine, spoke on “Biological Underpinnings of Autism: Convergent Evidence from Studies of Humans and Model [...]