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Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the Beren Writing Center, has been pursuing, as usual, a busy schedule of writing, teaching and speaking. Most notable, on Nov. 12, 2019, Dr. Ladin received the Hachamat Lev Award at the Keshet Outstanding! NYC 2019 ...
Dr. Edward Belbruno, clinical professor of mathematics, gave an incisive interview to Antiques and The Arts Weekly, featured in their November 8, 2019, issue. Q: You were working at NASA’s JPL in Pasadena by day and making space-inspired paintings by night. What question were you trying to answer…
Barbara Blatner Barbara Blatner, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, directed two of her plays this past summer: Light at the Philipstown Depot Theatre’s Glass Ceiling Breaker festival and Advances in Communication at the Secret Theatre One-Act Play Festival in Long Island City. “I had directed…
In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. Parkchester was celebrated as a “city within a city,” offering many of the attractions and comforts of suburbia, but without the transportation issues that plagued commuters into New York City…
Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored, with Toby Kleinman, “Challenges Attorneys Face When Family Courts Do Not Follow Rules of Evidence” in the New York Law Journal. Pollack notes that “courts are known for their many rules and regulations. While there are…
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, penned a contribution to the North American Review’s project, “ Every Atom: Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200,” in which the editor of the project…
On Oct. 22, 2019, Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, gave a livestreamed presentation at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, titled “ The Backwash…
Dr. Shalom Holtz, professor of Bible at Yeshiva College and associate dean of academic affairs, has a new book coming out from Brown Judaic Studies. Titled Praying Legally, Dr. Holtz explained how “in the Hebrew Bible and related ancient sources prayer there is an opportunity to make one’s case ...
Dr. Paula Geyh, an associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, attended the annual Association for Philosophy and Literature, sponsored this year by the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in Austria. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines to explore a range…
Dr. Brian Trimboli, currently a lecturer-in-writing at Yeshiva College, spent the summer working on a manuscript of “sonnet crowns.” This is a poetic form where a sequence of sonnets are linked together structurally by having the final line of the first sonnet be the first line of the second sonnet…
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