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Dr. Adam Zachary Newton was officially invested as the Ronald P. Stanton Professor of Literature and the Humanities on Dec. 16. Newton was honored at the dedication ceremony of 245 Lexington Avenue, Stern College for Women’s signature building on the Beren Campus, as Ronald P. Stanton Hall. The ...

Rev. Frederick J. Streets, the Carl and Dorothy Bennet Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, was appointed to the board of trustees of the Fund for Theological Education. Rev. Streets was one of four members, all church and education leaders, to be elected by the ...

Dr. Steven Fine, professor of Jewish history and director of the Center for Israel Studies, is the recipient of the Association of Jewish Studies' (AJS) 2009 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the area of Jews and the arts for his book Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish ...

Prof. Suzanne StoneProfessor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Cotler heads drive to stop Iran threat THE JERUSALEM POST, Dec. 31, 2009 Dr. David Pelcovitz Gwendolyn and…

Dr. Michael Machczynski and Dr. Jianfeng Jiang (left), assistant professors of chemistry at Yeshiva University, have each been awarded grants of $50,000 over two years from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to investigate means of efficiently storing energy from the sun. The ...

Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, assistant professor of physics at Stern College for Women, was elected to the Executive Committee of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society. Dr. Emil Prodan, also assistant professor of physics at Stern, recently had a paper selected for ...

Dr. Chaim Nissel, director of YU's Counseling Center and associate dean of students for health affairs, gave a presentation on "Working with suicidal college students: Key clinical and administrative considerations” at the 60th Annual Association of University and College Counseling Center…

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, appears on Shalom TV, a national Jewish cable network, every day from Sunday, Nov. 1 through Saturday, Nov. 7. Dr. Gurock is featured in the first part of a series looking at the history of Orthodox ...

Dr. David Strug, professor of social work and social welfare at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, was a featured presenter at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research's public conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience on November 2, 2009. The conference celebrated the history of Jewish ...

Dr. Dennis LinAssistant professor of psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Early to Rise, Quick to Succeed? Not for Everyone, Studies Find New York Daily News, Nov. 30, 2009 Dr. Siobhan DolanAssociate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and women's health, Albert Einstein College of ...