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The Katz School of Science and Health is launching two new master’s programs in computer science for the next generation of tech innovators. The Agile M.S. in Computer Science is for students who want to break into the tech field, but do not have an undergraduate degree in computer science; the M.S…

Dr. Amiya Waldman-Levi, director of scholarship and research in the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate, found that fathers play like their child’s play partner, sometimes acting silly or mischievous to make play more fun.

From December 2023 to January 2024, faculty, staff, and students at the Straus Center have contributed numerous articles in a variety of venues.

On view in Pollack Library (2nd floor, Gottesman Library building) are twelve pencil and charcoal drawings, all from the third week of Carla Aurich's Principles of Drawing class, emphasizing the use of marks, as opposed to continuous line drawing. Marks are first used to measure height and width ...

On December 13, 2023, the Straus Center hosted Jack Miles for a virtual talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book God: A Biography, which was the focus of a Straus Scholars fall reading group led by Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner and Dr. Shaina Trapedo.

Judy Chalouh-Benjamin's educational fall-prevention education series, which covered everything from hazard identification to falling safely, was one of seven student presentations during a Capstone Dissemination Day in August.

The Straus Center convened a series of seminars by Israeli scholars, journalists, ethicists and public figures at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, and the students conducted volunteering missions on behalf of soldiers, children, and families.

An extraordinary leader, scholar, educator, and one of the architects of Yeshiva University as we know it today, Rabbi Zevulun Charlop z”l, YU ’51, RIETS ’54, passed away on Tuesday, beseiva tovah, at the age of 94. As the Max and Marian Grill Dean of the Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary…