Stern Student Volunteers to Fight HIV and AIDS in Africa
Tag: HIV
Now in Video: “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie”
In Fall 2014, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies partnered with Yeshiva College and the YU Museum in hosting “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie,” an interdisciplinary symposium examining the biblical flood account and how the story has been read, interpreted, reconstructed – and modeled – through Midrash, medieval and modern texts, art, and film, with a particular focus on the 2014 Hollywood film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky.
The Holocaust Averted: Conversation and Book Launch with Prof. Gurock
The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and Yeshiva University Museum, in partnership with Rutgers University Press and the American Jewish Historical Society invite you to a nationally-televised conversation with Rabbi Mark Golub and Professor Jeffrey S. Gurock:
Researchers Genetically Engineer Immune cells Into Potent Weapons for Battling HIV Infection
By outfitting immune-system killer cells with a new pair of genes, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University transformed them into potent weapons that destroy cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
NIH Awards Einstein $3 Million Grant to Create Center for HIV-Related Brain Disease
The National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year, $3-million grant to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University to establish a research center to study the neurological complications that afflict people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.