Currently viewing the category:
"Pictures"
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. […]
On Sunday, April 3rd, the Honors Program went to see A Long Day’s Journey into Night on Broadway on its very first day at the American Airlines Theater. This emotionally intense production of the highly autobiographical play by Eugene O’Neill ran for a full three hours and 45 minutes long, making this one of the […]
April 2018 M T W T F S S « Feb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Archives
- February 2018
- January 2018
- November 2017
- September 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- November 2016
- October 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- March 2011
- February 2011
- November 2010
- October 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- December 2009
