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 […]
New World Encounters
Guest Post by Prof. Ronnie Perelis
I have a wonderful group of students in my Friday morning YC class, New World Encounters. We have been meeting every Friday morning since the semester began to discuss the early accounts of European exploration and conquest of the Americas and […]
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, […]
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 […]
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