YU News

Yeshiva University and Yeshiva University's Samuel H. Wang High School for Girls (Central) are partnering with 32 other Jewish institutions for the Second Annual Five Towns Community Collaborative Conference on Sunday morning, June 28, at the Young Israel of Woodmere, 859 Peninsula Boulevard ...

Peninnah Schram, professor emeritus of speech and drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, contributed her essay “My Journey into My Name” as one of 36 accounts in a recently published book, At My Pace: Ordinary Women Tell Their Extraordinary Stories, collected and edited by Jill ...

Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, was honored to deliver the Jane Stedman Plenary Lecture on May 1 at the Midwest Victorian Studies Conference, held in Iowa City. The conference topic was "Victorian Sense and the ...

The latest issue of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, a journal published by Yeshiva University's Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, was recently featured on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) site. The site included an in…

Professor Jianfeng Jiang, associate professor of chemistry, recent published an article in Chemical Communication, an international chemical science journal. The article was co-authored by Jiang's students, Tyler Berenson '13YC, Nathaniel Tracer '15YC, Daniel Shlian '17YC, Michael Khaloo '16YC, and…

Dr. Jeffrey Gonzalez, associate professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was recently awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institute of Health to conduct an ...

Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, division coordinator of natural and mathematical sciences at YU and director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College, served as an organizing member of " Discussions on Nano and Mesoscopic Optics" (DINAMO), one of the most important conferences in…

Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History and associate professor of history at Yeshiva University, has a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press. Titled The Polish Underground and the Jews: 1939-1945 (May 2015…

Dr. Neer Asherie, professor of physics and biology, has been awarded a $30,500 grant from the National Science Foundation for his role in organizing an international physics workshop that will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, from June 22-24, 2015. Titled "The Physics of Protein Self-Assembly…

Dr. Henry Huang, associate professor of accounting at the Sy Syms School of Business, received the Best Paper Award at the Mid-Year Conference of the Public Interest Section of American Accounting Association for his work, titled, "Are socially responsible firms less likely to expatriate? An ...