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Shira Feen. left, and Lavanya Karanth Katz Digital Marketing and Media students Shira Feen and Lavanya Karanth have won the Triple Bottom Line Challenge, an open #innovation competition on June 18 to turn COVID-19's quarantine isolation into a startup improving the world post-coronavirus. Their ...

SLP Program Director Dr. Marissa Barrera Dr. Marissa Barrera, director of the Speech-Language Pathology program at the Katz School of Science and Health at Yeshiva University, said prolonged ventilator use can strain the vocal cords of patients suffering from coronavirus, during an interview on ...

Biotech graduate Ziona Isaacs For her capstone project for Lucerna, Inc., a biotechnology startup, Ziona Isaacs, a recent graduate of the Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship master’s program, developed a commercialization pathway for the company’s machine learning-guided RNA assay ...

Lorraine Marchand Lorraine Marchand, a member of the faculty of the Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship program at the Katz School and a leader of life sciences consulting at IQVIA, an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and ...

Mark Schleisner Mark Schleisner, a long-time IT project manager and analyst and master’s candidate in the Katz School’s cybersecurity program, has obtained a coveted Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential, which is granted by the International Information System ...

Ankush Sharma If you want to make a global impact, the Katz School is offering the Bright Futures Scholarship Initiative. For a fixed $25,000 tuition, you can complete a master's degree in science and technology industries and be like Ankush Sharma, a master's student in Biotechnology Management…

SLP Professor Michaela Medved says teletherapy can be a "wonderful" alternative, but it has its limitations. While Dr. Michaela Medved’s approach to treating patients has been severely affected by the coronavirus, her job at its heart hasn’t changed. She still works in her clinical practice with ...

Shira Feen Lavanya Karanth Lavanya Karanth and Shira Feen, both master’s students in the Digital Marketing and Media program, have been named finalists in a global competition for their idea to create a remote education service for students in developing nations. The “ Triple Bottom Line Challenge…

Three experts will address the topic of cybersecurity in a webinar hosted by the YU Alumni Technology Group on Wednesday, June 3, at noon. The featured speakers are Kurt John, chief cybersecurity officer at Siemens USA; Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, CISO at Fortinet; and Shira Rubinoff, a cybersecurity ...