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YU News interviews former Straus Scholar Natan Ehrenreich (YC '23), who did a prestigious summer internship at National Review, where he published multiple articles.

On October 12th, 2023, Straus Center Director Rabbi Meir Soloveichik delivered a lecture on “The Yom Kippur War and the Simchat Torah War: Reflections on Fifty Years Ago and Today” at the Roosevelt House.

Rabbi Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, is pleased to announce that over 100 college and university presidents across the United States have joined him in a statement of support of Israel and the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' cruel rule in Gaza. Text from an article on Cision PR…

YU News interviews Straus Scholar Yaakov Willner (YC '25), spent his summer in multiple DC-based think tanks.

Honggang Wang, chair of the Katz School's computer science and engineering program, and several colleagues are developing an AI-powered wearable device that can monitor illicit drug use in individuals with substance use disorder.

On September 11th, 2023, the Straus Center hosted Adam Kirsch, Features Editor at The Wall Street Journal, for a talk about his latest book.

With great success, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, reached out to university presidents across the United States to join in issuing a statement in support of Israel, the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' cruel rule in Gaza, and all people of moral conscience. Text from an…

On September 10th, 2023, the Straus Center hosted Armin Rosen, senior writer at Tablet Magazine, for a wide-ranging conversation about his career in journalism.

Two weeks into a clinical rotation in the emergency department at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens, Carin Gannon, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, was put to the test.

In a published research article, Professor Fredy Zypman considers the explicit connection between refraction and its atomic origin, and proposes a mathematical model to gain physical insight on permittivity, a property related to refraction.