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Dr. Shmuel Schneider, associate professor of Hebrew at Yeshiva University, will participate in a panel discussion at the Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills on June 5 titled "Understanding the Complexities of Charedi Vs. Non-Charedi issues in Israel and the USA." Schneider will speak about the role of…

Dr. Lea Santos, associate professor of physics at Yeshiva University, has been awarded a fellowship at Harvard University's Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optic Physics (ITAMP). Santos will receive support to spend three months at the Institute conducting research for her project…

Gabriel Cwilich Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, associate professor of physics and division coordinator of natural and mathematical sciences at Yeshiva College, and Dr. Sergey Buldyrev, professor of physics at Yeshiva College, recently published “ Cascading Failures in Networks with Proximate Dependant Nodes…

Dr. Neer Asherie, associate professor of physics and biology at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College, delivered an invited talk at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver, Colorado. Titled, "An Overview of Protein Phase Behavior," it reviewed the efforts that have been made over…

Dr. Karen Shawn, visiting associate professor of Jewish education at Yeshiva University's Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and editor of its publication PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, led three presentations about the journal during an…

Margaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor of art history at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, has been awarded a Summer Fellowship in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Administered by Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks is…

Dr. Shmuel Schneider, associate professor of Hebrew at Yeshiva University, delivered a lecture at the Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills on Shabbat, May 10, 2014. The lecture was organized by the Education Committee and the Women's League and titled, "Religion and Politics in Israel."

Dr. Chaim Nissel, dean of students at Yeshiva University and adjunct instructor at its Wurzweiler School of Social Work, presented a two-day course on behalf of the American Association of Suicidology to mental health clinicians in Independence, Kansas from April 2-3, 2014. The course, titled, ...

Dr. Steven Fine, professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has been selected to participate in the Getty Research Institute's Scholars Program, which brings cultural scholars and artists from around the world to live and work in Los Angeles…

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, has published an article in The Huffington Post. Titled " No Place for Poetry on My Son's Common Core ELA Test," the piece ...