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Dr. Marina Holz, The Doris and Ira Kukin Professor of Biology at Stern College for Women, co-authored a research paper with scientists from the Linköping University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden as well as with Dr. Anya Alayev ’03S, ’10E, clinical assistant professor of biology, and Adi ...

Artwork by Dr. Edward Belbruno, clinical professor of mathematics, will be featured in an exhibition at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, titled Metamorphosis, until December 2, 2017. According to the exhibition catalog, "The abstract expressionist paintings of Ed Belbruno reflect both inner and…

Dr. Matthew Cuellar Dr. Matthew Cuellar, assistant professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Dr. Charles Auerbach, also a professor at Wurzweiler, will co-teach two seminars on statistical analysis using the R statistical programming language. The hour-long seminars will be held on…

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, delivered two lectures recently. On October 24, at the Merillat Centre for the Arts at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, Fine presented “‘He Went to the ...

Dr. Chaim Nissel, Yeshiva University’s dean of students and an adjunct assistant instructor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, presented a community lecture on October 24, 2017, on suicide prevention, titled “13 Reasons Why? NOT!” The talk was hosted by the Mental Health Resources division of the…

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center, published her eighth poetry collection, Fireworks in the Graveyard, this September. Her ninth, called The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something, will be out in December. In addition, Ladin ...

Dr. Seamus O'Malley, assistant professor of English, is presenting at three conferences and serving on a panel at a fourth this fall. His talks include “Populist Propaganda in Emily Lawless’s Hurrish” for The American Conference for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Georgetown ...

Dr. Nora Nachumi, associate professor of English, presented a paper in March entitled “Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and the Impact of Form ” on a panel entitled "The Eighteenth Century on Film" at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. That paper grew out of a chapter…

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English, recently published two essays. The first, “Michelangelo’s Last Pietà,” appears in the Autumn 2015 edition of The Lacanian Review: Hurly Burly, published under the aegis of The New Lacanian School and The World Association of Psychoanalysis. The…