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Dr. Tamar Avnet, associate professor of marketing and chair of the marketing department at YU's Sy Syms School of Business, recently delivered a lecture at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Avnet discussed the influence of affect on consumer behavior and also participated in a…

Dr. Manfred Weidhorn, the Abraham and Irene Guterman Chair in English Literature and professor emeritus of English, recently published a number of literary essays. "The Real Shakespeare Mystery" appeared in The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter; " Freedom, Happiness, Location—On Earth and Beyond" was…

Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, recently published a book on mathematical physics with Springer International Physics. Titled Bulk and Boundary Invariants for Complex Topological Insulators: From K-Theory to Physics and co-authored with Dr. Hermann Schulz-Baldes, professor at the University…

Dr. Shalom Holtz, associate professor of Bible and chair of the Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva College, recently delivered two lectures. The first, "Seeing God as Refuge in the Psalms," was an illustrated talk at the Jewish Community Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, in ...

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, will deliver three upcoming lectures focusing on his recent book, The Polish Underground and the Jews: 1939-1945, which uses a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs to offer…

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Chair in Jewish History, recently co-authored an article in the January/February 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. Titled "A Temple's Golden Anniversary" and co-authored with Peter J. Schertz, the article honors the creator of the model of Herod's…

New research by Dr. Anna-Lisa Cohen, associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, was recently featured in an article in The Atlantic. Titled " How the Brain Reacts to Scrambled Stories," the article explored research showing that people tend to prefer linear narratives, but can also be ...

Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law, has been named as one of the two editors-in-chief of the prestigious academic journal Jewish History. Members of the editorial board of Jewish History are drawn from leading universities ...

Dr. Linda Carroll, director of YU's graduate program in speech-language pathology, co-authored an article in the December supplement to The Laryngoscope. Dr. Linda Carroll Titled "Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Reinnervation in Children: Acoustic and Endoscopic Characteristics Pre-intervention and Post…