From the monthly archives: September 2023
By Dave DeFusco
At a recent presentation at the prestigious International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Tokyo, Dr. Marian Gidea, association dean for STEM research and director of graduate mathematics at the Katz School, revealed the results of a simplified mathematical model demonstrating that oscillating steel beams made of piezoelectric materials produce more […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Last year, Marsha Pinto, a speech pathologist and graduate of the M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, received a referral for a 7-year-old student with selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that inhibits him from speaking in certain social situations. Not only would he not speak, he wouldn’t venture inside the classroom, instead lingering […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Manish Kumar Thota, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, is the recipient of Yeshiva University’s $25,000 Sacks Impact Graduate Fellowship in Ethics and Entrepreneurship for his proposed work on developing a machine-learning chatbot that can assist with students’ academic work.
The chatbot, utilizing a newly developed Generative […]
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