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By Dave DeFusco

Three years ago, the Fried sisters—Miriam and Naomi—moved to the United States from Israel to pursue an education that would affirm their Jewish heritage and allow them to take advantage of opportunities afforded by a liberal arts and sciences education. Miriam aspired to a career in clinical medicine, leading her to

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By Dave DeFusco

Martin, a young man with autism, is known for being garrulous. He’ll regale you on various topics, such as the military or geography, for as long as you let him. At the AFYA Foundation, he’s popular with the staff and other clients in the day program where Amanda Brenner is doing fieldwork […]

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By David DeFusco

Jane, a 20-year-old flag football player, jammed her left pinkie finger during a game with her college club team. The injury bent her finger at the middle joint, where it got stuck in that position because of swelling due to ligament damage. In order to facilitate Jane’s healing, Brynna Kaplan, a student […]

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Two recent Katz School graduates drew enthusiastic praise for a marketing plan they developed to help launch Piggy, a mobile content creation app, as part of their student capstone project.

Abagail Berkowitz and Joseph Hafez, both of whom graduated this year with an M.S. in Digital Marketing and Media, were tasked with helping […]

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At a recent celebration of the Indian festival Diwali, Katz School students, dressed in traditional garb, danced joyously to classical Indian, or Garba, songs with their classmates. The scene, captured on Instagram, was a sign of the school’s growing community of Indian students.

Lakshmikar Reddy Polamreddy, president of the newly formed Katz School Indian […]

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By Dave DeFusco

Anne, a 50-something churchgoer, lost her speech after a stroke. She had trouble coming up with the right words and stringing them into sentences—a condition called aphasia—until Dani Weingarten, a graduate of the Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP), took on her case.

Anne was a client at New York […]

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By Dave DeFusco

Anthony Pagan watched the patient’s chest rise and fall as he prepared to assist the surgeon at the operating table, the noxious scent of burning flesh filling the air as a cauterizing instrument sliced through tissue.

The surgeon made four incisions, and then it was Pagan’s turn. A second-year student in the […]

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By Dave DeFusco

An interdisciplinary team of Katz School graduate students has built a machine learning model that utilizes satellite images to refine the spatial resolution of climate change forecasts.

As part of the course Geospatial Time Series Analysis, Surbhi Nayak, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization program, […]

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By Dave DeFusco

Joe, a New York City cab driver, had a serious injury. He crushed his index finger in a door, severing the tip of it. After surgery to reattach it, he was in immense pain. As part of his recovery, he sought out an outpatient hand clinic at East […]

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By Dave DeFusco

An interdisciplinary team of Katz School researchers is investigating the potential for wearable devices connected to the internet to facilitate the rehabilitation of stroke patients who have lost mobility in their arms.

Dr. Sai Praveen, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Katz School’s M.S. in […]

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