The Honors Program always enjoys the opportunity to feature what YU’s own faculty is working on.  For our final luncheon of the fall semester on December 12th, we were honored to host a Faculty Reading in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry.  The reading featured Professors David Puretz, Liesl Schwabe, and Brian Trimboli of the YC English Department […]

In another installment of our Humanities in Dialogue series on November 7th, Professor Ronnie Perelis sat down with Professor Daniel Rynhold to discuss Prof. Rynhold’s new book, Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-authored with Michael J. Harris.  Their conversation gave students the opportunity to learn more about Prof. Rynhold’s research and […]

We are pleased to announce that the Honors Program has both a new home and a new director!  Over the summer, the program moved from Furst Hall to Belfer Hall, and Dr. Daniel Rynhold took over as the director of the program.  Following this transition, the Honors Program had an eventful October, packed with luncheons, […]

Last week, the Honors Program held two memoir events, featuring three different authors.

On Monday, November 6th, we had a special “Evening with Faculty Memoirists,” with Prof. Joy Ladin (David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College for Women) and Prof. Joanne Jacobson (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of English, […]

Our last few Honors luncheons were devoted to hearing from our YU faculty on various topics.

On September 27, Rabbi Ozer Glickman spoke on “The Future of Torah, Poetry, and the Humanities in the Age of Big Data.”  Rabbi Glickman has spent years applying data science to rich data sets in the […]