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Dean Wozniak (left) with Ruchama Klapman, member of Nefesh Executive Board and founder of MASK ( Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Kids) Dr. Danielle Wozniak, The Dorothy and David Schachne Dean of Wurzweiler School of Social Work, attended the 21st Annual Nefesh Conference accompanied by Rabbi…
A team of educators and students from YU’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work (WSSW) presented at this year’s Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) conference. The SSWR annual meeting is the leading research conference for social work. This year’s event included more than 500 symposia,…
Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, was one of a panel of researchers and educators quoted in an article in the January issue of Trends in Genetics. One question posed to the group was, “Why is genetics education so important?” Steinhauer’s reply, in part, pointed to the ubiquity…
Reuven Russell, instructor of speech and drama at Stern College for Women has become a familiar face to those who have never taken his classes, through his recurring role in a former student’s web series. Soon By You, created by Leah Gottfried ’14S, is about a group of friends navigating the Jewish…
Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Stern College for Women, delivered two talks at the January 4-7 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. She spoke on “Travelling into the Unexpected with J.M.W. Turner and ...
Leonard Fuld, director of the masters in taxation program at Sy Syms School of Business, will deliver a lecture on “Tax Principles” at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Fuld will provide an overview of basic U.S. tax laws and the current political and business climate in the U.S., including the…
Dr. Stuart S. Miller, professor of Hebrew, history and Judaic studies and a member of the classics and Mediterranean studies section of the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, will be the first Leon Charney Visiting Scholar at YU’s Center…
Rabbi Menachem Penner, The Max and Marion Grill Dean at Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary, will deliver The Sheldon Rudoff Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Beth Din of America and the Orthodox Union. The lecture, titled “The Meaning of Miracles: A Divine Game of Hide and Seek,” is ...
Shulamith Z. Berger, curator of special collections and Hebraica-Judaica at the Yeshiva University Libraries, published an article about children’s book author, Moyshe Levin (pen name Ber Sarin), in Judaica Librarianship, the peer-reviewed journal of the Association of Jewish Libraries. In her ...
Dr. Charles Auerbach, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, co-authored an article with four colleagues examining the incidence of hearing failure among newborns in births where the mother delivers two or more offspring. Titled “Characterization of newborn hearing screening failures in ...
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