From the monthly archives: June 2020
Julian Ruggiero, a Fulbright scholar in the Data Analytics and Visualization program, recently conducted an analysis of the occurrence of COVID-19 in the boroughs of New York City and found that people residing in zip codes predominantly populated by low socioeconomic groups, including African Americans and Hispanics, had a higher incidence of the virus, […]
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May Mahmoud is in her last semester of the Katz School’s Speech-Language Pathology program. Originally from Alexandria, Egypt, she currently lives in Brooklyn. May is bilingual in Arabic and English, and holds an undergraduate degree in speech-language pathology from Brooklyn College. Helena Goodman, a marketing manager at Yeshiva University, recently spoke with May about her […]
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As fashion comes to grips with its own responsibility in the climate crisis, the concept of sustainable clothing, whether remaking old clothes or re-engineering used fabric, is starting to take root in the consciousness of American consumers.
That idea has also inspired several students in the Digital Marketing and Media program at the […]
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Katz Digital Marketing and Media students Shira Feen and Lavanya Karanth have won the Triple Bottom Line Challenge, an open #innovation competition on June 18 to turn COVID-19’s quarantine isolation into a startup improving the world post-coronavirus. Their winning “Remote Education for All” proposal is a virtual tutoring app that will […]
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Dr. Marissa Barrera, director of the Speech-Language Pathology program at the Katz School of Science and Health at Yeshiva University, said prolonged ventilator use can strain the vocal cords of patients suffering from coronavirus, during an interview on “Coronavirus Patient’s Fight Doesn’t End After Getting Off A Ventilator, Speech Pathologists Say” with WCBS on […]
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For her capstone project for Lucerna, Inc., a biotechnology startup, Ziona Isaacs, a recent graduate of the Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship master’s program, developed a commercialization pathway for the company’s machine learning-guided RNA assay technology platform for early drug discovery.
“I conducted extensive market research and landscape analysis to gain an understanding of […]
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Lorraine Marchand, a member of the faculty of the Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship program at the Katz School and a leader of life sciences consulting at IQVIA, an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and clinical research, met up with Helena Goodman, a marketing manager at Yeshiva […]
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Mark Schleisner, a long-time IT project manager and analyst and master’s candidate in the Katz School’s cybersecurity program, has obtained a coveted Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential, which is granted by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, also known as (ISC)².
“Mark’s advanced skills in cybersecurity will help him open […]
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If you want to make a global impact, the Katz School is offering the Bright Futures Scholarship Initiative. For a fixed $25,000 tuition, you can complete a master’s degree in science and technology industries and be like Ankush Sharma, a master’s student in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship. He has landed […]
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While Dr. Michaela Medved’s approach to treating patients has been severely affected by the coronavirus, her job at its heart hasn’t changed. She still works in her clinical practice with children and adults to continue focusing on their therapy goals. In recent weeks, however, that has meant communicating with them over video as opposed to […]
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