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On May 5, the Parnes Clinic at Yeshiva University welcomed 60 migrant and asylum-seeking teenagers to its first Bronx Community Resources Event. Local organizations, such as Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Center for Family Life, were on hand to help attendees access key services ranging from…

Dr. Rinu Abraham, a recent graduate of the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate, was the corresponding author of a study that found a negative correlation between manual dexterity and cognitive function in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.

Yeshiva University celebrates Dr. Herbert Dobrinsky’s six decades of impact In the corridors of academia, where the impact of philanthropy enables the pursuit of knowledge, there exists a figure whose name is synonymous with translating values into action. For 60 years, Dr. Herbert C. Dobrinsky ...

From June 2nd to June 6th, 2024, the Straus Scholars of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought participated in a summer seminar in England. The program featured leading diplomats, writers, academics, and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. The first session was a lecture by the…

A five-person team from the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) visited the Makor College Experience program at Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus on June 6. The team learned about the dynamic curriculum and immersive campus experience offered by Makor, an ...

The projects, drawn across the school’s graduate programs in STEM and Health Sciences, covered a range of subjects, and was an outcome of their own scholarship, as well as mentorship from faculty advisors, research collaborators and industry representatives.

Introduces $1 million matching grant in honor of Rabbi Zevulun Charlop to support elite Torah scholars Celebrating a passionate commitment to Torah and the Jewish people, YU RIETS will ordain 135 new rabbis on Sunday, June 16, in the Nathan Lamport Auditorium at Zysman Hall. The triannual event ...

Celebrating the longstanding partnership between Yeshiva University and the Washington Heights community, YU’s START Science club held its year-end event on May 24 on the Wilf Campus. Hundreds of local schoolchildren, YU’s START Science student-volunteers, and University faculty and administrators…

A first-generation American in a family of health care providers, Sharona Abramova was drawn to the PA faculty’s reputation for clinical excellence and the curriculum that emphasizes compassionate care. She recently joined Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital as a PA.