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Dr. Matthew Miller, associate professor of English at Yeshiva University, is giving a talk on Thursday, April 9th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Park Slope Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 431 6th Ave. at 9th St in Brooklyn, New York. The talk, entitled " Walt Whitman's Writing Process: The Poet…

Dr. Sumanta Goswami, associate professor and co-chair of the biology department at Yeshiva University, was recently profiled in Breast Cancer Alliance's web feature, " BCA Supported Research in Action." BCA funded Goswami's research on the identification and characterization of invasive and drug ...

Dr. Joanne Jacobson, professor and co-chair of the English department at Yeshiva University, will deliver a lecture at Oklahoma State University on Thursday, April 2, from 4-5 p.m. in Morrill Hall, Room 303. Titled "Double Vision: The Imaginary of the American Suburb," the talk will explore the…

Rabbi Yona Reiss, rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, was a participant on a panel at the 2015 Corcoran Chair Conference, held at Boston College from March 22-23. Titled "Protestant, Catholic, Jew...Divorcing," the conference focused on changing religious…

Charles Auerbach Dr. Charles Auerbach and Dr. Wendy Zeitlin, full professor and assistant professor respectively at Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler Graduate School of Social Work, recently co-authored an article on The Oxford University Press Blog: Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Titled…

The seventh annual Norman Adler Lecture Series in the Biological Basis of Behavior will take place on April 1, 2015 at the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences 31 st Annual Retreat in conjunction with the Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative. Dr. Ron Duman, professor of psychiatry and neurobiology at…

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, professor of finance at the Sy Syms School of Business, will publish an article in Quarterly Journal of Finance. Titled “Location Specific Styles and U.S. Venture Capital Contracting” and co-authored by Ola Begntsson of Lund University, the article documents a study that found…

Dr. Anatoly Frenkel, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has been named Weston Visiting Professor in the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He will be hosted by Dr. Igor Lubomirsky, professor at Weizmann, who has been Frenkel…

Dr. Margarita Vigodner, associate professor of biology at Stern College for Women, recently published two articles together with recent students and alumni. The first, titled “ Can your protein be sumoylated? A quick summary and important tips to study SUMO-modified proteins,” was published in ...