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Dr. Hoffman Publishes on How Life-Metaphors Reflect Values

By On September 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Edward Hoffman, adjunct associate clinical professor in the department of psychology at Yeshiva College, published a paper in September in the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, a peer-reviewed psychology journal, titled “The life-metaphors of experienced teachers: A replication from China.”

“There is growing interest in […]

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Dr. Levine Publishes Two Articles

By On September 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Michelle J. Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, has published two articles for the Mesorah Matrix Series, edited by David Birnbaum and Martin S. Cohen. In volume 9 of the series, Ehyeh asher Ehyeh [“I Will Be That Which I Will Be”], Dr. Levine examines […]

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Dr. Jonathan Feldman Publishes on Asthma and Panic

By On September 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jonathan Feldman, professor of psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has co-authored two articles on asthma and panic.

In “Psychological treatment of comorbid asthma and panic disorder in Latino adults: Results from a […]

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Dr. Michelle Levine Begins Her 20th Year of Lecturing

By On September 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Michelle J. Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, has begun her yearly adult lecture series in her community of Kew Gardens Hills, New York, on topics in the Bible. This is her 20th consecutive year teaching this series to women of all ages and diverse […]

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Dr. Joshua Waxman Does Not Wane in his Work

By On September 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joshua Waxman, assistant professor at Stern College for Women, presented a peer-reviewed short paper titled “A Graph Database of Scholastic Relationships in the Babylonian Talmud” at the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference held July 9-12, 2019, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

In his presentation, Dr. Waxman noted […]

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Daniel Pollack on Rural Family Law and Angry Family Law Clients

By On September 19, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, recently published two pieces.

In “Out of luck: Need a rural family law attorney?”, he and co-author Lori S. Kornblum examine data from Wisconsin about the problems people living in rural populations have in finding adequate legal representation. A scarcity […]

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Dr. Josefa Steinhauer Publishes on Sperm Cells in Fruit Flies

By On September 4, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, recently published a study in Development, a publication of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, with three YU alumni: Benjamin Statman ’15YC, Dani Edelman ’17YC and Jacob Borck ’18YC.

Dr. Steinhauer explains “Combover interacts with the axonemal component […]

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