The increased pressures of college life have brought increased attention to higher education mental health concerns. A new book co-edited by Dr. Victor Schwartz, university dean of students and associate professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral science at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Dr. Jerald Kay of Wright State University, serves as a comprehensive […]

Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle undetected with treatable TB strains. This study will be published in “PLoS ONE,” a peer-reviewed online journal from the Public Library of Science. The […]

While heated debates continued over the proposed bailout plan, Moses Pava, the Alvin Einbender Professor of Business Ethics at Sy Syms School of Business, said at a recent lecture that a change in consciousness at how our culture approaches wealth is more necessary than a change in policy. The Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University […]

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism agent. The report by Matthew B. Sturm and Vern L. Schramm, titled “Detecting Ricin: Sensitive Luminescent Assay for Ricin A-Chain Ribosome […]

Anatoly Frenkel, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, co-published recent research together with scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Delaware, “Ternary Pt/Rh/SnO2 electrocatalysts for oxidizing ethanol to CO2” in Nature Materials Vol. 8, April 2009. He also co-published “Evidence for a terminal Pt(IV)-oxo complex exhibiting […]