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Dr. Marian Gidea, chair of the mathematics department at Stern College for Women, has been awarded two grants as an organizer of the international conference, “A Broad Perspective on Finite and Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems,” to be held at University of Barcelona, Spain, from June 12 to ...

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has two recent accomplishments. On December 15, 2016, Fine gave a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on his book The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel. The 40-minute…

Daniel Pollack, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Toby G. Kleinman, a lawyer and instructor at Nova Southeastern University, have co-authored Domestic Abuse, Child Custody, and Visitation: Winning in Family Court, published this year by Oxford University Press. Pollack…

Dr. Silke Aisenbrey, associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, recently published three peer-reviewed articles. In 2017, she and Dr. Anette Fasang of the Berlin Social Science Center co-authored “The Interaction of Employment- and Family-Trajectories: Germany and the United ...

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University, presented a copy of his book, The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press 2016) to Dalia Rabin-Pelossof at an event at the Rabin Center…

Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, published an article titled, “Dynamical Majorana Edge Modes in a Broad Class of Topological Mechanical Systems,” in the February 23rd edition of Nature Communications. The study detailed in the article was conducted on phonons, which are quantities, like small…

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, has just published Constant Challenge: Sports and American Judaism (Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press and The Toby Press). The book collects nine essays that examine the challenges of sports to American…

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, assistant professor of Bible, is a best-selling author of several books on Judaism (including, among others, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Judaism). Now he shares his wisdom on the Passover seder in R edemption, Then and Now: Pesah Haggada with Essays and ...