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Dr. Sharon Poczter, chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department at Sy Syms School of Business, recently published a piece in Inc. titled “How Can You Protect Your Company From the Next Financial Crisis?” on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 meltdown. She proposed a…

Dr. Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs. This past August, he presented at two academic forums in Mexico while he was in the country to ...

Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, professor of physics and interim division coordinator of natural and mathematical sciences, had a productive sabbatical leave in 2017-2018. For most of that year, he was based at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), in San Sebastian, Spain, as a visiting scholar ...

Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, adjunct professor in Jewish history, is working with Nathan Stoltzfus, Dr. Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University, and Dr. Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, to organize a conference…

Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, professor of history and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, was recently interviewed on Polish television about the Polish translation of The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 by PWN Publishing House ...

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has published a paper in the July 16, 2018, issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology, a publication of the American Psychological Association. Titled “ Parental trauma and adult sibling relationships in holocaust-survivor ...

Aaron Wright, associate clinical professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, testified before the US House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology earlier this year urging legislators to create a National Blockchain Commission to protect the technology from bad actors and to…

Dr. Tamar Avnet, professor of marketing and department chair of marketing at the Sy Syms School of Business, has co-authored an article with Dr. Anne-Laure Sellier, associate professor of marketing at HEC Paris titled “Scheduling Style.” It will be published in the April 2019 issue of Current ...

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, professor of finance and chair of the finance department at Sy Syms School of Business, and Dr. Shu Han, associate professor of management information systems, have had an article accepted for publication in Management Science titled “ Star Turnover and the Value of Human ...