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Dr. Paula Geyh, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, published in April by Cambridge University Press. This volume offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the American fiction of the past 50 years. It…
Gary Stein, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work and vice chair of the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network, recently published two articles in the field. “Social Work Involvement in Advance Care Planning: Findings from a Large Survey of Social Workers in Hospice and…
Daniel Pollack, professor of social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, recently published a brief article titled “How to banish child sexual groomers” on Youth Today, a website created to provide resources to professionals working with young people. As the name suggests, a sexual groomer…
Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, appeared on the “Rabbi Wechsler Teaches” show on Sirius XM Stars. The show is hosted by Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler, the founding Rabbi of Congregation Or Zarua in Manhattan. Gurock's interview occurs about 21 minutes into the ...
Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, was recently interviewed by “The Tel Aviv Review,” a program on TLV1, an English-language podcast network based in Tel Aviv. In the interview, titled, "The Menorah…
Dr. Zafrira Lidovsky-Cohen, professor of Hebrew and director of Hebrew language and literature, coordinated the 2017 International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture sponsored by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic…
In January 2017, Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics, began work on a project called “Physics of Interacting Quantum Systems with Phase Transitions,” funded by a three-year $190,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Materials Research. “We are all very…
Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, gave a keynote talk at an international conference in Germany sponsored by University of Cologne titled “XPrag 2017,” otherwise known as the Seventh Biannual Experimental Pragmatics Conference. The title of his talk was ...
Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center, has published numerous works and delivered several recent lectures. Her essay “ 'You are making me now’: Writing God as a Contemporary American Poet” is the cover story of the current (May/Summer…
Dr. Matt Miller, associate professor of English at Stern College for Women, has had a poem published in Brooklyn Poets Anthology, a book which offers a snapshot of the Brooklyn poetry community’s voices, aesthetics, and traditions. He will also have a poem appearing in the next issue of The ...
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