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Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at YU’s Stern College for Women, recently published a story in New Mitzvah Stories for the Who le Family (Reclaiming Judaism Press, 2014), an anthology of 43 stories in honor of poet Danny Siegel. Her story is titled, “Bringing Joy to Others.” The…

Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law at Yeshiva University, has been named to the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, where he joins colleagues from Columbia University, Princeton University, the ...

Dr. Gabriel Cwilich and Dr. Neer Asherie have both been promoted to full professor of physics and full professor of physics and biology, respectively, at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College. Gabriel Cwilich Cwilich is the director of Yeshiva College's Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program…

Dr. Gillian Steinberg, associate professor of English and director of writing at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College, has recently published an analytic book on the works of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy: The Poems (Analysing Texts) (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2013) offers an approachable ...

Bruno Galantucci and Gareth Roberts, associate professor of psychology and research fellow in psychology at Yeshiva University respectively, have published an article in PLOS ONE, an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes primary research in a number of scientific disciplines. Titled…

Dr. Tamar Avnet, associate professor of marketing and department chair of marketing and management at Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business, has a new article that is forthcoming in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The article will highlight her recent research on the ...

Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel and Rabbi Jeremy Wieder, Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Professor of Talmud and Rosh Yeshiva, will speak at the Hampton Synagogue on Shabbat, July 19, 2014. President Joel will deliver a Shabbat morning drasha titled, “Where Have All the Heroes Gone?” and…

Dr. Margaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor at Stern College for Women, has published a volume she co-edited with Rosalind P. Blakesley of the University of Cambridge. Titled From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture, the book honors a pioneer in the field of…

Dr. Elizabeth Seng, assistant professor of psychology at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, participated in a TweetChat organized by the American Headache Society (AHS) at their Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles on June 26, 2014. Using the hashtag #AHS14LA, Seng, a…

Marc Goldman, executive director of Yeshiva University's Career Center, will receive a Volunteer Meritorius Service Award at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which will take place in San Antonio, Texas, from June 8-11, 2014. At the conference ...