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Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva College, has been awarded a three-year $375,000 R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, one of the National Institutes of Health in the…

Paul Glassman, director of University libraries and adjunct instructor of architectural history and design, has won the Worldwide Books Award for Publications from the Art Libraries Society of North America for The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship, co-authored with Judy Dyki, director of ...

Dr. David Shatz, Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, And Religious Thought and chair of the department of philosophy at Stern College for Women, has had a productive 2018. He published a 62-page article, “Contemporary Scholarship on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Where We…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year mathematics research grant of $425,022 for a project to be conducted by Dr. Marian Gidea, professor of mathematics; Dr. Pablo Roldan, assistant professor; and Dr. Edward Belbruno, professor of mathematics. Dr. Pablo Roldan The project’s…

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored an article with Lori S. Kornblum, a faculty member at Marquette University Law School, titled “ Child Abuse: The ‘Unsubstantiated’ Finding.” The article investigates how to help families in cases where a child-abuse ...

Dr. Aman Gebru, a visiting assistant professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, recently accepted an offer to publish a paper in the Denver Law Review for April 2019. Titled “Patents, Disclosure, and Biopiracy,” the paper examines the economics of information disclosure in the patent…

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, instructor in Jewish studies at Stern College for Women, has published The Future: A Guide to the Jewish Messiah, Israel, and the End of Days, based on a course that he has been teaching at Stern College for the past eight years. As Rabbi Hajioff notes, “The world is on edge…

Joy Ladin, director of the Beren Writing Center at Stern College for Women and David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, has been publishing new and upcoming work. Her second book of creative non-fiction, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, part of…

Dr. William Arsenio, professor of psychology in the clinical program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, authored an article, “The Wealth of Nations: International Judgments Regarding Actual and Ideal Resource Distributions,” for the October issue of Current Directions in Psychological…

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, continues to focus her work to provide trainings to healthcare providers and mental health care professionals about the role of prior trauma in the lives of elderly survivors. Dr. Felsen noted that “the proportion of older…