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Daniel Pollack (MSSA, MSW, JD), professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Francesca LeRúe (MSW, MPA), strategic consultant, trainer and expert witness on child welfare, co-authored “ If Odysseus Were a Child Welfare Department Director” for the APSAC Advisor (Vol. 33, No. 1). Their ...

Dr. James Kahn (photo courtesy of Wallethub) In Wallethub’s recent review of “2021’s Best & Worst Cities at Money Management,” Dr. James Kahn, Henry and Bertha Kressel University Professor of Economics and chair, Department of Economics at Yeshiva University, was one of six experts asked for…

Dr. Kathryn Krase, associate professor of social work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored “ Coping With and Adapting to COVID-19 in Rural United States and Canada” in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services (2021, Vol. 102(1) 78–90). Her co-authors are Dr…

Dr. Kathryn Krase, associate professor of social work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored “ Evaluating student outcomes in field education through a standardized instrument: The Updated Field Practicum Placement Assessment Instrument (SWEAP 2015 FPPAI)” for Field Educator (Fall…

Dr. Robert Gordon Dr. Robert Gordon ’86F is Director of Intern Training and Associate Director of Postdoctoral Fellow Training at Rusk Rehabilitation and Clinical Associate Professor at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, and in that capacity, he has trained many psychology interns at…

Dr. Kathryn Krase, associate professor of social work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored another COVID-19-themed paper, “ Exploring Factors Associated with Alcohol and/or Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (Jan. 26…

Dr. Kathryn Krase, associate professor of social work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored two papers concerning coping with compliance and other issues related to COVID-19. In “ Micro, mezzo, and macro factors associated with coping in the early phase of COVID-19” in Journal of ...

Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor and chair of the department of physics at Yeshiva University, has published “ The quick drive to pseudo-equilibrium” in Nature Physics (January 4, 2021). The abstract states that “a clever application of nuclear magnetic resonance techniques offers a glimpse…

Dr. Archishman Chakraborty, Mel Harris Chair in Insurance and Risk and chair of the finance department at Sy Syms School of Business, has co-authored “ Expert Captured Democracies” for American Economic Review 110 (2020) with Dr. Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,…

Dr. Rachel Mesch, professor of English and French and chair of the English Department at Yeshiva College, has not let the pandemic slow down her academic projects. Her most recent book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories From Nineteenth-Century France (published this year by Stanford University ...