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Dr. Matt Miller, associate professor of English at Stern College for Women, is involved in efforts to improve the literary culture in New York City as part of a new nonprofit group, the Walt Whitman Initiative. These include renovations of the Walt Whitman Park in downtown Brooklyn, placing a ...

Sharon L Poczter, chair of the entrepreneurship and strategy department at Sy Syms School of Business, writes a regular column for Inc. Her first piece is titled “ Two Simple Ways Female Entrepreneurs Can Get More Funding," relating how two new studies find that gender differences in financing have…

Dr. Anna-Lisa Cohen, associate professor of psychology, has written a new book which will be released in November, co-written with Dr. Jason Hicks titled Prospective Memory: Remembering to Remember, Remembering to Forget (published by Springer Nature). Although we typically think of memory as ...

Dr. Marina Holz, Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology at Yeshiva University, recently delivered a keynote address at the Resveratrol 2017 Regional Meeting in Mendoza, Argentina, which met from October 12-October 13, 2017. In her presentation, titled “Modulation of cellular signaling pathways by…

Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, has published an article, along with a number of co-authors, in the prestigious journal Genes and Development, titled “New genes often acquire male-specific functions but rarely become essential in Drosophila.” In a collaboration among ...

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History and professor of history, has had his most recent work, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945, translated into Polish by PWN Publishing House. The Polish Underground and…

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, published three articles recently. “Cross-gender supervision of children in residential group homes” appeared in the New York Law Journal. He and his co-author Julia Sands discussed the balance between steering clear of discrimination…

Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics, has accepted an invitation to give a plenary talk at the “Quantum Innovators in Science and Engineering” workshop in the first week of October organized by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. This is a…

Dr. Ran Drori, assistant professor of chemistry, will publish an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, titled “Dynamics and Unsteady Morphologies at Ice Interfaces Driven by D2O-H2O Exchange.” This article is one in a series of Drori’s research into the behavior of ice ...

Dr. Sari Skolnik, assistant professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has had an article accepted for publication in Social Work with Groups, a quarterly journal of community and clinical practice. The article, “Coming Together: Factors that Connect Social Workers to Group Practice,” is a ...