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Stewart Has a Prolific Year

By On September 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, has had a productive 2018.

She has been invited to contribute an essay to differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, published by Duke University Press, titled “Unheimlichkeit in Kinderheim and Stammheim: Memories of Baader-Meinhof.” In the essay, […]

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Edelman Co-Edits Book and Organizes Conference

By On September 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Mark Edelman, clinical associate professor at Stern College for Women, has had a successful year, co-editing a book and helping organize an international conference.

Chaotic, Fractional, and Complex Dynamics: New Insights and Perspectives is part of a series, “Understanding Complex Systems,” published by Springer. It was co-edited […]

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Blekher Has Panel Proposal Accepted for Major International Conference

By On September 20, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Maria Blekher, clinical associate professor of digital strategies and director of the MS in Marketing at the Katz School, has had a panel symposium proposal accepted for the Academy of Management Specialized Conference, “From Start-up to Scale-up,” taking place December 17-19, 2018, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The […]

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Steinhauer Receives Major NIH Award

By On September 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva College, has been awarded a three-year $375,000 R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, one of the National Institutes of Health in the United States Department of Health and Human […]

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Glassman Wins Award

By On September 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Paul Glassman, director of University libraries and adjunct instructor of architectural history and design, has won the Worldwide Books Award for Publications from the Art Libraries Society of North America for The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship, co-authored with Judy Dyki, director of library and academic resources at Cranbrook Academy […]

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Shatz Publishes About the Rav, the Commandments and the Challenge of Evil

By On September 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. David Shatz, Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, And Religious Thought and chair of the department of philosophy at Stern College for Women, has had a productive 2018.

He published a 62-page article, “Contemporary Scholarship on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Where We Are, Where We Can Go,” in Scholarly Man […]

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Three YU Professors Receive NSF Grant

By On September 14, 2018 · Leave a Comment

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year mathematics research grant of $425,022 for a project to be conducted by Dr. Marian Gidea, professor of mathematics; Dr. Pablo Roldan, assistant professor; and Dr. Edward Belbruno, professor of mathematics.

The project’s title is “Dynamical and Statistical Methods Applied to Hamiltonian Systems.” As Dr. Roldan explains, […]

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Pollack Has New Articles and a Citation

By On September 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored an article with Lori S. Kornblum, a faculty member at Marquette University Law School, titled “Child Abuse: The ‘Unsubstantiated’ Finding.” The article investigates how to help families in cases where a child-abuse allegation is made but there […]

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Gebru Write About Patents, Disclosure and Biopiracy

By On September 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Aman Gebru, a visiting assistant professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, recently accepted an offer to publish a paper in the Denver Law Review for April 2019. Titled “Patents, Disclosure, and Biopiracy,” the paper examines the economics of information disclosure in the patent system […]

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Hajioff Publishes New Book

By On September 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, instructor in Jewish studies at Stern College for Women, has published The Future: A Guide to the Jewish Messiah, Israel, and the End of Days, based on a course that he has been teaching at Stern College for the past eight years.

As […]

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