Dr. Margarita Vigodner, assistant professor, Dept. of Biology, Stern College for Women, has received a two-year renewal of a Young Investigator Award grant from the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute which supports research studying tobacco-related diseases. FAMRI was born out of a class action law suit brought on behalf of non-smoking flight attendants […]

Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has received a National Science Foundation grant for his article titled “Dynamical Processes in Many-Body Systems: Analysis and Simulations”. The three-year grant is worth over $300,000 and was awarded by the Division of Mathematical Sciences through the Computational Mathematics Program.

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The US Department of Energy recently renewed the contract of Anatoly Frenkel, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, as coordinator of the Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium (SCC) for three years. Frenkel is a founding principal investigator (PI) of the Consortium, together with his partner in that position, Prof. Jingguang Chen from University […]

Linda Shires, professor of English and chair of the Stern College English department, received the Dean Karen Bacon Award for senior faculty members at the May 11 awards ceremony held at the Schottenstein Cultural Center. The donor-funded award is made annually in the dean’s name. Shires received the award in recognition of her work […]

An article by Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has been selected for publication in a new service called Physics . Commissioned by the editors of Physical Review Journals, the site is a compilation of the well-known collection of physics journals run by the American Physical Society […]

Political freedom lies at the core of any democracy. Yet some people claim that even countries like America and England aren’t free enough. What does a free society look like and how much liberty is necessary for the moral life? What is the role of government, how big should it be, and what happens when […]

Prof. Julie Suk
Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
How French and U.S. laws affect Strauss-Kahn news coverage
Reuters, May 31, 2011

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Clinical Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Dominique Strauss-Kahn unlikely to do deal – lawyers
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