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Liesl Schwabe, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, published a piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine of Feb. 6, 2019, titled “ Everything I Know About Feminism I Learned From Nuns.” In the piece, she spoke about how important it was to her personal development to be “surrounded by…

Dr. Yuri Katz, a professor in the mathematics program at Stern College for Women and a director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, co-authored a paper for Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications with Victor E. Gluzberg of PTC of Haifa, Israel. Titled “Planetary boundaries of ...

Dr. Pablo Roldan-Gonzalez, assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences, spoke at the Colloquium at the Applied Math Department at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City. Dr. Roldan’s talk explained research he is doing at Yeshiva University on the ...

Dr. Lea Santos, professor of physics and department chair at Stern College for Women, is one of the organizers of the program “ Universality and Ergodicity in Quantum Many-Body Systems” taking place at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York ...

Dr. Daniel Tsadik, associate professor of Sephardic and Iranian studies at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, recently had published The Jews of Iran and Rabbinic Literature: New Perspectives by Mosad Ha-Rav Kook (Jerusalem). The book addresses the question of Iranian Jewry’s affinity…

Dr. Silke Aisenbrey, professor of sociology and chair of the department, was named Deputy Editor of Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society. Gender & Society, according to its website, publishes articles that “analyze gender and gendered processes in…

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English, attended the Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization Conference that took place at the University College of Cork, Ireland, from Nov. 2-3, 2018. The conference sought “to build bridges between Public Health and Social Thought by ...

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has written a primer on “How Attorneys and Expert Witnesses Can Effectively Manage Each Other in Domestic Violence Cases” for the New York Law Journal. Pollack notes that “if a lawsuit necessitates that an expert be retained, the ...

Dr. Leanne Quigley, an assistant professor in the clinical psychology PsyD program in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, received a grant of $409,276 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study cognitive control and vulnerability to major depression as part of a four-person…

Six years ago, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, assistant professor of Bible, was informed that he was suffering from cardiac amyloidosis, a fatal and incurable disease. The book he has written about this experience, Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death, received a laudatory review in the New York…