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Nissel Presents Lecture and Workshop on Suicide Prevention

By On November 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Chaim Nissel, Yeshiva University’s dean of students and an adjunct assistant instructor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, presented a community lecture on October 24, 2017, on suicide prevention, titled “13 Reasons Why? NOT!”

The talk was hosted by the Mental Health Resources division of the Sephardic Bikur Holim (SBH) in Brooklyn, […]

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Ladin Publishes Poetry

By On October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center, published her eighth poetry collection, Fireworks in the Graveyard, this September. Her ninth, called The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something, will be out in December. In addition, Ladin completed The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God […]

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O’Malley Speaks at Four Conferences

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Dr. Seamus O’Malley, assistant professor of English, is presenting at three conferences and serving on a panel at a fourth this fall.

His talks include “Populist Propaganda in Emily Lawless’s Hurrish” for The American Conference for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; “Yeats and the Languages of Populism” for […]

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Nachumi Publishes and Presents at Conferences Focused on 18th Century Studies

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Dr. Nora Nachumi, associate professor of English, presented a paper in March entitled “Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and the Impact of Form” on a panel entitled “The Eighteenth Century on Film” at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. That paper grew out of a chapter she is writing on Whit Stillman’s film, “Love and […]

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Stewart Publishes Two Essays

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Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English, recently published two essays. The first, “Michelangelo’s Last Pietà,” appears in the Autumn 2015 edition of The Lacanian Review: Hurly Burly, published under the aegis of The New Lacanian School and The World Association of Psychoanalysis. The second, “Hannah Arendt and Biopolitics” appears in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Core Texts in […]

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Miller Improves Literary Culture in NYC Through Walt Whitman Initiative

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Dr. Matt Miller, associate professor of English at Stern College for Women, is involved in efforts to improve the literary culture in New York City as part of a new nonprofit group, the Walt Whitman Initiative. These include renovations of the Walt Whitman Park in downtown Brooklyn, placing a commemorative plaque at the site […]

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Poczter Writes Column on Gender Gap in Financing

By On October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Sharon L Poczter, chair of the entrepreneurship and strategy department at Sy Syms School of Business, writes a regular column for Inc. Her first piece is titled “Two Simple Ways Female Entrepreneurs Can Get More Funding,” relating how two new studies find that gender differences in financing […]

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Cohen Publishes Book on Prospective Memory

By On October 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Anna-Lisa Cohen, associate professor of psychology, has written a new book which will be released in November, co-written with Dr. Jason Hicks titled Prospective Memory: Remembering to Remember, Remembering to Forget  (published by Springer Nature).

Although we typically think of memory as oriented to the past, prospective memory pertains to remembering to carry […]

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Holz Delivers Keynote Address

By On October 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology at Yeshiva University, recently delivered a keynote address at the Resveratrol 2017 Regional Meeting in Mendoza, Argentina, which met from October 12-October 13, 2017.

In her presentation, titled “Modulation of cellular signaling pathways by resveratrol,” she spoke about the recently funded clinical trial […]

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Steinhauer Publishes Article on Genetics

By On October 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, has published an article, along with a number of co-authors, in the prestigious journal Genes and Development, titled “New genes often acquire male-specific functions but rarely become essential in Drosophila.”

In a collaboration among Steinhauer’s lab at YU and scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell […]

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