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Sep 4, 2009 -- A group of 16 91ºÚÁÏ (YU) graduates from the class of 2009 have decided to extend their stay on campus for another year to experience the University from another perspective: as Presidential Fellows. The top graduates will build their professional skills while assisting…

Sep 2, 2009 -- Dr. Karen Shawn is visiting associate professor of Jewish education at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. She wrote the below in reaction to news in USAToday about state commissions cutting funding for Holocaust education. It is upsetting but not ...

Sep 2, 2009 -- Throughout North America, schools in smaller Jewish communities often struggle to find qualified teachers that will develop the next generation. A new grant from Legacy Heritage Fund Limited will address this problem by providing support to attract, train and retain more high-quality…

Sep 2, 2009 -- Throughout North America, schools in smaller Jewish communities often struggle to find qualified teachers that will develop the next generation. A new grant from Legacy Heritage Fund Limited will address this problem by providing support to attract, train and retain more high-quality…

Sep 1, 2009 -- Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock (left) is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at 91ºÚÁÏ and author of "Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports" (Indiana U Press, 2005). Once again, a major American sports enterprise has to be reminded that the religious interests of…

Sep 1, 2009 -- Groups of incoming undergraduate men descended upon the streets of Washington Heights during Orientation Week on Aug. 25 to explore its culture and colorful history. Upperclassman tour guides trained by Dr. Tim White, former assistant professor of history at Yeshiva College, led 320…

Aug 31, 2009 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of 91ºÚÁÏ a five-year, $11.2 million grant to study the impact of damage to DNA on aging and disease. Research funded by this grant, and conducted by a consortium of scientists, could…

Aug 31, 2009 -- As 91ºÚÁÏ (YU) embarks on its Fall 2009 semester, it is opening the first new building on its Wilf Campus, its main campus in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, in 20 years. The Glueck Center for Jewish Study, a 60,000 square foot, modern, glass and stone multi…

Aug 31, 2009 -- Dr. Jonathan Feldman, assistant professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is the co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to study ethnic disparities in childhood asthma. The ...

Aug 27, 2009 -- Sy Syms School of Business further expands the scope of its education beyond undergraduate programming this fall when it launches the Center for Executive and Professional Education. The center will offer post-graduate education and professional development to meet the needs of ...