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Dr. Richard Caputo, director of the doctoral program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has published a new book titled U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present, (Springer, 1st Edition, 2011). The book examines the evolution of major federal cash assistance programs…

Daniel Laufer, associate professor of marketing at Sy Syms School of Business, has been published in The Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, the first international, multi-volume encyclopedia of marketing. His article, "Marketing Warfare Strategies", refers to competitor-centered ...

Steven McCadney, a PhD candidate in social welfare at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, will deliver a speech at the 3rd Annual World Vaccine Congress (WCV-2011), which will be held in Beijing, China, March 23-25. The conference’s theme is “The Future of Global Vaccines,” and McCadney’s ...

Catherine Pearlman, adjunct professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been featured on a CNN ongoing series called “ Stop Bullying, Speak Up”. A practicing social worker and doctoral candidate at Wurzweiler, Pearlman is also founder of The Family Coach, a business that specializes in…

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter , University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future, will be a presenter at the Orthodox Union's One-Day Conference on Jewish Life on Sunday, January 16, 2011, in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. He will be discussing how…

Drs. Jeffrey H. Weisburg, Alyssa G. Schuck, Harvey Babich and Harriet L. Zuckerbraun, at Stern College for Women’s department of biology, have jointly published an abstract titled “Pomegranate Extract, a Prooxidant with Antiproliferative and Proapoptotic Activities Preferentially Towards Carcinoma…

Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has had an article accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Physical Review E. The article, titled "Topological phonon modes in filamentary structures," was completed by undergraduate students Nina Berg, Kira Joel…

Dr. Evan Resnick, assistant professor of political science at Yeshiva College, published the essay "Strange Bedfellows: U.S. Bargaining Behavior With Allies of Convenience," in the Winter 2010/2011 issue of the journal, International Security (MIT Press). In the paper, Resnick addresses the United…

Dr. Alan Fleischman Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Too Many Babies Are Delivered Too Early: Hospitals Should Just Say No Time.com, Jan. 31, 2011 Dr. Gregory Asnis Professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Albert Einstein College…

Rabbi J. David Bleich, the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics, has authored a fourth volume of the Hebrew-language work Be-Netivot Ha-Halakhah (Yeshiva University Press). This series is devoted to an analysis of theoretical subjects, as well as to the application of ...