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Pollack Publishes Two Articles

By On February 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has written two articles for Policy & Practice, the flagship publication of the American Public Human Services Association: “Attorney Perspectives of ‘Legal Kidnapping’” and “The 2020 U.S. Census: Concerns about Undercounting and the Effects on Human […]

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Schwabe Gives a Shout-Out to Catholic Nuns

By On February 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Liesl Schwabe, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, published a piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine of Feb. 6, 2019, titled “Everything I Know About Feminism I Learned From Nuns.”

In the piece, she spoke about how important it was to her personal development to be […]

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Katz Publishes Paper on Financing Climate Change

By On February 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Yuri Katz, a professor in the mathematics program at Stern College for Women and a director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, co-authored a paper for Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications with Victor E. Gluzberg of PTC of Haifa, Israel. Titled “Planetary boundaries of consumption growth: Declining social discount rates,” […]

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Roldan Discusses Current Research

By On February 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Pablo Roldan-Gonzalez, assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences, spoke at the Colloquium at the Applied Math Department at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City.

Dr. Roldan’s talk explained research he is doing at Yeshiva University on the cryptocurrencies market in collaboration with Dr. Marian Gidea, professor of […]

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Santos Organizes Physics Program

By On February 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Lea Santos, professor of physics and department chair at Stern College for Women, is one of the organizers of the program “Universality and Ergodicity in Quantum Many-Body Systems” taking place at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, from August 26 […]

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Tsadik Publishes New Book

By On February 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Daniel Tsadik, associate professor of Sephardic and Iranian studies at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, recently had published The Jews of Iran and Rabbinic Literature: New Perspectives by Mosad Ha-Rav Kook (Jerusalem).

The book addresses the question of Iranian Jewry’s affinity with rabbinic literature from the 16th to the beginning […]

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Aisenbrey Named Deputy Editor

By On February 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Silke Aisenbrey, professor of sociology and chair of the department, was named Deputy Editor of Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society. Gender & Society, according to its website, publishes articles that “analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces.”

Her role […]

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Stewart Attends Conference

By On February 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English, attended the Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization Conference that took place at the University College of Cork, Ireland, from Nov. 2-3, 2018.

The conference sought “to build bridges between Public Health and Social Thought by addressing ‘salutogenesis’ [a focus on factors that support human […]

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Pollack Referees Between Attorneys and Expert Witnesses

By On February 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has written a primer on “How Attorneys and Expert Witnesses Can Effectively Manage Each Other in Domestic Violence Cases” for the New York Law Journal.

Pollack notes that “if a lawsuit necessitates that an expert be retained, the attorney […]

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Quigley Receives Grant To Study Depression

By On February 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Leanne Quigley, an assistant professor in the clinical psychology PsyD program in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, received a grant of $409,276 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study cognitive control and vulnerability to major depression as part of a four-person team.

“The study,” said Dr. Quigley, […]

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