Dr. Karen Shawn, associate professor of Jewish education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and editor of its publication PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, conducted two workshops recently at the Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) for 40 master teachers chosen from around the country to participate […]
Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, recently published a study in Development, a publication of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, with three YU alumni: Benjamin Statman ’15YC, Dani Edelman ’17YC and Jacob Borck ’18YC.
Dr. Steinhauer explains “Combover interacts with the axonemal component […]
Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, will speak on September 2, 2019, at a special program for the second generation of children of Holocaust survivors as part of the current exhibition, “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living […]
Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the writing center at the Israel Henry Beren Campus, has had a busy year of publishing and presenting.
New Course
“The Truth About Lies: Unreliable Narratives in Literature and Law,” at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Publications
The Soul […]
Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, examines the issues underlying the case of Michelle Carter texting Conrad Roy to kill himself, which he eventually did, in “Text Taunting to Suicide: The Role of Child Protective Services.”
While he feels the First Amendment issues […]
Dr. Michelle J. Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, was invited this summer to participate in a special international conference on research in the Bible and biblical exegesis, Bakesh Torah, which was held at Bar-Ilan University in Israel in honor of the 90th birthday of renowned […]
Dr. Elizabeth Seng, associate professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and research associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, gave the inaugural Early Career Award Lecture at the American Headache Society conference, held from July 11-14, 2019, at the […]
Dr. Catherine DeLazzero, clinical associate professor of writing at the Katz School of Science and Health, recently received a Fulbright Specialist Award to deliver lectures on writing at Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) in Thailand. The award is given by The Fulbright Program, which offers grants for students, scholars, teachers, […]
Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, has been awarded a three-year grant of $387,000 from the Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Program of the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his project in materials science titled “Aperiodic Topological Materials and Meta-Materials.”
“The research is very fundamental,” said Dr. […]
The Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2018 was held from November 17-20, 2018, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
Out of that meeting came a set of reviews for Robin Jensen’s The Cross: History, Art and Controversy (2018) and Dr. Steven Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (2016), including one […]
