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The Stern College for Women American Chemical Society student chapter has been awarded an Innovative Activities Grant (IAG) for the 2013-2014 academic year. The grant, which funds innovative, scientifically relevant and inclusive proposals, will go towards the creation of a new safety video for ...

Dr. Lawrence Schiffman, Yeshiva University’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Dr. David Berger, Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History and Dean of YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, participated in a three-day conference to help improve relations…

Dr. Rachel Mesch, associate professor of French and chair of the Languages, Literature and Cultures department at Yeshiva College, recently published an article on Slate.com. Titled “ The Lovely Lady Athletes of Belle Epoque France,” the article traces the connection between fashion and women’s ...

An article written by faculty and students at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology has been awarded a 2012 silver medal by Thorax, a high-impact medical journal. The article, whose research was coordinated by Ferkauf faculty member Dr. Jonathan M. Feldman, associate professor…

Dr. Margaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor of art history at Stern College, has been invited to participate in a three-week National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute, “America’s Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: Twentieth Century Migration and Memory,” at Columbia University…

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at Stern College for Women, will be a featured performer at the 2013 Days of Jewish Culture Festival in Berlin, Germany. With collaborator Gerard Edery, a singer and guitarist she has performed with for more than 20 years, Schram will present an ...

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, has won the 2013 Goren-Goldstein book award from the Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University for his recent publication The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz (Wayne State…

Dr. Abraham Ravid, Sy Syms Professor of Finance at YU's Sy Syms School of Business, participated in a HuffPost Live panel discussion about the profitability of summer movies. Other guests included Michael Hogan, executive editor of arts and entertainment at HuffPost; Bryan Unkeless, co-producer of…

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct associate professor at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently led a t wo-part Remembrance and Renewal workshop for children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors at the Boro Park Y. Called "Surviving and Thriving," the event was hosted by ...

Dr. Sonia Suchday, associate professor at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has been selected to participate in the Academic/Academic Medicine track of the 2013 American Psychological Association (APA) Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP). The program is ...