Ferkauf Professor Awarded Grant for Psychoanalytic Research

Katie Aafjes-van Doorn’s Research Explores the Role of Affect Attunement in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy  Dr. Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, assistant professor at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has been awarded the Beginning Scholar Pilot Grant by the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Fund for Psychoanalytic Research. The $5,000, one-year grant is given to researchers in the initial […]

Stern Chemistry Club Awarded American Chemical Society Grant

Community Interaction Grant Will Fund Outreach Work With Local Public School Students For the eighth time since 2009, the Stern College Chemistry Club has been awarded a Community Interaction Grant Student Chapter Award by the American Chemical Society. The club’s proposed outreach activity, leading chemistry workshops for elementary students at the Henrietta Szold School (PS […]

Unlocking the Secrets of Quantum Physics to Create New Materials

Major Grant From National Science Foundation Funds Dos Santos’ Study of Interacting Quantum Systems How can transitions between different states of matter—for instance, liquids, gasses and solids—be harnessed to create new kinds of matter for novel technologies? This is the focus of new research by Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics at Stern […]