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With the help of an NSF grant, mathematics Ph.D. candidate Samuel Akingbade is researching the mathematical possibility of continuously capturing energy derived from small amounts of vibration in human and natural activity.

Wurzweiler School of Social Work students are prominent emerging scholars and clinicians who are trained to contribute knowledge and discoveries to the community by incorporating both clinical intervention and research. We are so pleased to share with you a sampling of their recent scholarship and…

Left to right: Eric Grossman, director of fieldwork for Wurzweiler; Nechama Munk, director of Wurzweiler’s Israel Program; Dr. David Pelcovitz; and Stephanie Strauss, executive director, Yeshiva University in Israel To fill a critical need for affordable, English-language mental health services in…

On Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, 18 teams, brought together by the Office of Alumni Affairs to raise funds for the YU Athletics Department, dealt out astonishing pick-and-rolls, jazzy no-look passes and clutch outside shots as they battled during the inaugural YU Athletics Day for the coveted prize of ...

For Immediate Release: August 29, 2022 Media Contact: Ryan Colby | media@becketlaw.org | 202-349-7219 WASHINGTON – The nation’s oldest Jewish university just asked the Supreme Court to protect its First Amendment rights. Yeshiva University has been fighting in New York State courts for over a year…

Cardozo News Cardozo Welcomes Class of 2025 and New LL.M. Class at Orientation Professor Michel Rosenfeld Appears on Radio-Canada to Discuss American Politics Professor Matthew Wansley Comments, in The New York Times, on Whether Tesla Data Can Help Experts Understand Car Crashes Professor Jessica…

As part of the Straus Scholars Program of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Straus Scholars participate in weekly reading groups outside the classroom that cover the great texts of the West and Judaism. On the Beren campus, Straus Center Clinical Assistant…

For Fall 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in collaboration with Yeshiva College (YC) and Stern College for Women, is offering numerous courses for Straus Scholars and Yeshiva University undergraduate students to study the great texts and traditions of the ...

Walter Russell Mead | Knopf | 2022 Reviewed by Stu Halpern In The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People, The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead offers a revisionist history of the relationship between America and the Jewish State. As Mead writes, “The…

Dr. Youshan Zhang, an expert in artificial intelligence including deep neural networks and computer vision, has joined the Katz School faculty in the artificial intelligence master’s program.