New York City native Dr. Tamar Avnet, associate professor of marketing at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business, was recently invited to serve a one-year term on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Consumer Research.   The invitation was based on her stature in the field, the high level of citation her [...]

  Dr. Margaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor of art history at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, was awarded a fellowship by the Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress.   Samu, who is also a lecturer in the Education Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [...]

  A book by Dr. Brett M. Frischmann, professor of law and intellectual property expert at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, was reviewed in the July 13 issue of Science. The book, “Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources” (Oxford University Press, 2012), argues that open access is key for ensuring the [...]

Oxford University Press has recently published Economic Morality and Jewish Law, written by the late Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine z”l, former Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University. A leading authority on Jewish commercial law, Levine published widely on the interface between economics and Jewish law, especially as it relates to public policy [...]

Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, will present Stern College’s first physics conference, “Blackboard Lectures in Condensed Matter Physics,” from July 16-19.   Funded by the National Science Foundation, the lectures will demonstrate a range of particular theoretical machinery via explicitly-worked out applications inspired from current trends [...]