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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Fatigue plays a significant role in how people with Multiple Sclerosis and their clinicians perceive and identify cognitive difficulties, according to a recently published paper co-authored by Dr. Marissa Barrera, assistant dean of health sciences and director of the Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology.
Fatigue dictates a patient’s perception of […]
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Several faculty members of the Katz School Occupational Therapy Doctorate program played a key role at the recent annual conference of the New York State Occupational Therapy Association (NYSOTA).
Dr. Mindy Garfinkel, a clinical associate professor and assistant director of the OT Doctorate program, received an award during NYSOTA’s president’s reception […]
Continue Reading →Katz School graduates have established an Alumni Association to inspire professional fulfillment, fellowship, acts of service and lifelong learning.
“As the Katz School continues to grow, you can feel the pride that our students and graduates have for their programs,” said Dean Paul Russo. “It speaks to the work of our faculty and staff that […]
Continue Reading →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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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 […]
Continue Reading →Katz School researchers are developing an advanced method for examining how ice crystallizes and how antifreeze proteins inhibit the crystallization process.
Dr. Ran Drori, assistant professor of chemistry in YU’s Stern College for Women and the Katz School’s M.A. in Physics, is studying the unique ability of ice-binding proteins, or antifreeze proteins, to both […]
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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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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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The Katz School of Science and Health has named the grant recipients of its inaugural Faculty Research Initiative, which was established to encourage innovation and expand existing research in STEM and the health sciences.
The grants, which range from $1,000 to $5,000, will support projects including the use of machine learning models […]
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