Miriam Lottner ’02S Promotes the Growth of Opportunities for both Israel and the Women who Live There Educators today speak often about the need to have more women in STEM fields, and the career of Miriam Lottner ’02S provides a great case study of what can happen when women enter professions that have been historically…
Lionotics’ Robots Dominate Competition
Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys Lead FIRST Tech Challenge
Getting a START in Science Education
Undergraduate Science Education Initiative Celebrates 150 Local Elementary Student Participants
Contributing to the Health of the Coming Generations
Mother, Scientist and Public Health Advocate Focuses on Neonatal Health Issues Miriam Merzel Schachter ’09S received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in 2014 from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She got her inspiration to study biology from her high school chemistry teacher at Ora Academy in Rochester, New York. “Mr. Zemel was…
YUHSB Awarded Major STEM Grant
Yeshiva University High School for Boys Receives $191,000 STEM Grant from Caroline and Joseph Gruss The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB) has received a $191,000 grant from a fund set up by Caroline and Joseph Gruss to upgrade and extend its STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum. “Given the…
Gruss Foundation Awards Central Major STEM Grant
Yeshiva University High School for Girls Receives $191,000 for STEM Education The Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) recently received $191,000 grant from the Gruss Foundation to put in place an innovative STEM program (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) that increases girls’ participation in disciplines that have been traditionally dominated by…
Stern College Students Receive Google Grant
igniteCS Funds Effort to Mentor High School Girls in Computer Science Elisheva Rabinovich, Elizabeth Bitterman and Kayla Boldt, all members of the Computer Science Club at Stern College for Women, are managing a grant from Google to mentor high school girls in computer science. The grant is a part of Google’s igniteCS initiative to help student groups…
The Code to Success
YU High School for Girls Computer Science Club Gives Students Competitive Edge in Male-Dominated Field