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Dr. Margaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor of art history at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, was awarded a fellowship by the Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, administered by the Library of Congress. Samu, who is also a lecturer in the Education ...

A book by Dr. Brett M. Frischmann, professor of law and intellectual property expert at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, was reviewed in the July 13 issue of Science. The book, “Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources” (Oxford University Press, 2012), argues that…

Dr. Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, was awarded one of two Fulbright-Tocqueville chairs for 2012-13 and is the only jurist ...

Susan Crawford, professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has been named to the inaugural Newsweek Daily Beast Digital Power Index, a collection of the 100 most significant players in 10 fields across the rapidly-expanding digital universe. The honorees have been nominated and voted for by ...

Oxford University Press has recently published Economic Morality and Jewish Law, written by the late Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine z”l , former Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University. A leading authority on Jewish commercial law, Levine published widely on the interface ...

Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, will present Stern College’s first physics conference, “ Blackboard Lectures in Condensed Matter Physics,” from July 16-19. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the lectures will demonstrate a ...

A natol y F re nkel, professor of physics at Yeshiva University, is part of a team of physicists who have secured a three-year grant for nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study how sub-microscopic manmade nanoclusters can be used to create more efficient energy sources…

Dr. Harvey Babich, professor of biology at Stern College for Women, Dr. Harriet Zuckerbraun, clinical associate professor of biology, Dr. Jeffrey Weisburg, clinical assistant professor of biology, Dr. Alyssa Schuck, clinical assistant professor of biology, and Stern College senior Ilana Ickow ...

An article by Yeshiva University’s Dr. Sergey Buldyrev, professor of physics, was recently cited in a work published in Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics. The Physics Today article, “ Networks in Motion,” cited a 2010 article published by Buldyrev in…

Dr. Eliezer Jones, educational technology specialist at Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership, delivered the keynote address at the Board of Jewish Education - Los Angeles retreat for heads of school and Yeshiva principals on March 28, 2012. Jones’ presentation was titled…