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On Tuesday, May 15th, the Honors Program celebrated this year’s Honors graduates at our annual Year-End Dinner. After brief remarks by Dr. Shalom E. Holtz and Dr. Joanne Jacobson, students presented their thesis research as a culmination of their undergraduate careers.
Congratulations to all of our 2018 graduates!
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The Honors Program took a trip downtown to see Tiny Beautiful Things at the Public Theater on Sunday, December 10th. Based on the best-selling book by author Cheryl Strayed (Wild), this play was praised by The New York Times as “an ideal catharsis” and “handkerchief-soaking meditation on pain, loss, hope & forgiveness.” Thousands of people […]
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 […]
Welcome to a new school year at YC Honors!
After a range of Honors orientation activities and our Welcome Back luncheon, the Honors Program started our regular luncheon series again today with a reading by our very own Professor of English, Richard Nochimson.
Prof. Nochimson, who has been teaching Yeshiva University students about fiction […]
The Honors Program concluded the academic year on May 24th with our annual Year-End Dinner, celebrating our graduating seniors and their accomplishments. Seniors, families, alumni, and faculty gathered in Weissberg Commons for a festive dinner, with congratulatory remarks from our director, Shalom Holtz.
In addition to recognizing those graduating this year, the Honor Program presented […]
By popular request, the Honors Program went to the New York Philharmonic for our first cultural outing of the semester on Thursday evening, September 22nd for a performance by violinist Lisa Batiashvili, who was Musical America’s 2015 Instrumentalist of the Year and is this season’s artist-in-residence with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Batiashvili performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin […]
On Friday, September 16th, we had a very special visitor. As part of our series of lectures on current political events, including the upcoming elections, the Honors Program welcomed Luis A. Miranda Jr. for a Constitution Day talk.
Miranda has almost four decades of experience as a leader in the public and private sectors. A […]
The Honors Program’s fall luncheon series is off to a great start!
On September 7th, we held our first luncheon of the semester, a Welcome Luncheon, where students gathered to hear about our plans for the semester and got to share their ideas as well. New students and old enjoyed pizza and heard from the […]
On Thursday, May 24th, we celebrated the accomplishments of our seniors who graduated this month at the Honors Year-End Dinner. Seniors, their families, representatives of the Honors classes of 2017 to 2020, faculty members, and trustees from the university enjoyed dinner while hearing brief remarks from Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, the Honors Program Committee Chair; Dr. […]
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