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Dr. Nancy Beckerman and Dr. Charles Auerbach, senior Wurzweiler faculty, have partnered with the SLE Lupus Foundation of New York and have developed the largest research study on psychological impact of living with Lupus in the United States. Dr. Beckerman and Dr. Auerbach have completed the first…

Dr. David Glaser, assistant professor of music at Stern College for Women, will premiere his new work, Catullus Dreams, at the second concert of the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2011. The piece, a psychological portrait of the Roman poet, was written for soprano Linda Larson, and ...

Oxford University Press has accepted for publication a manuscript by Dr. Naomi Grunhaus, assistant professor at Stern College for Women. The monograph entitled The Challenge of Received Tradition in Medieval Exegesis: Dilemmas of Interpretation in David Kimhi’s Biblical Commentaries explores the ...

An article by Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor, department of physics at Yeshiva University, is featured on the cover of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & Theoretical, Vol 44, No.11, 18 March 2011. The article, which he was invited to write, is titled “Disordered topological insulators:…

Dr. David Berger, dean of Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History, will deliver the keynote address titled “The Shifting Dynamic of the Jewish-Christian Encounter from the Middle Ages to the Present” at the 2011 Corcoran Chair ...

Dean Sheldon R. Gelman, the Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, was recognized by the New York City Latino Social Work Task Force at its 7th Annual Scholarship Awards Dinner on March 10th, 2011, with a “Special Recognition Award for His Dedication and Leadership…

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg, associate professor at Yeshiva University and spiritual leader of Congregation Beth-El in Edison, New Jersey, has published the Rosenberg Holocaust Siddur. “Experience has shown that without a framework for commemoration, remembrance will not long endure,” said ...

Pearl Berger, the Benjamin Gottesman Librarian and Dean of Libraries at Yeshiva University, is the 2011 recipient of the Life Membership Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL). The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library ...

Dr. Eliezer Schnall, clinical assistant professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, and Dr. David Pelcovitz, professor of education and psychology at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, lectured at the conference of Nefesh: The International Network of Orthodox Mental ...

Dr. James R. Otteson, joint professor of philosophy and economics at Yeshiva College, is one of three principal professors to have constructed a curriculum for and will teach in a Tikvah-sponsored summer institute for undergraduates. Titled "Economics and the Human Good," the program will take…