October 30 th was a memorable night at the Annual Undergraduate Phonathon, hosted by the Office of Alumni Affairs and Annual Giving. Young alumni volunteers returned to the Wilf Campus after their workdays to phone their peers and ask them to support their alma mater, as well as…
Dr. Emil Prodan, a professor of Physics at Yeshiva, received his PhD from Rice University in theoretical physics and has an MS in theoretical physics and an MS in mathematical physics. He was previously a fellow of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. He received postdoctoral training from…
She has served as head coach of the women’s tennis team since 2009 and was recently named the women’s tennis Skyline Conference Coach of the Year for the 2014 season, but Naomi Kaszovitz ’87S was already playing sports at —as a student athlete. A native of Oceanside, N.Y. ...
Dr. Josefa Steinhauer received her PhD from Columbia University and is an assistant professor of Biology at Stern College for Women, where she teaches Genetics and Molecular Biology to upper-level science majors. Her laboratory uses the Drosophila testis to elucidate molecular mechanisms of ...
Nechama Price '01S, '06A, '19BR, the new director of the Stern College Graduate Program for Advanced Talmud Studies (GPATS), has been a professor of Judaic Studies and Bible at Stern College for Women since 2004. Prior to that, she completed the GPATS program at Stern in 2003, received her Master’s…
As summer turns to fall and the air turns cool and crisp, students return to the classroom and parents everywhere are reminded of a familiar worry: This may be the year that their children encounter a feared and legendary phenomenon, otherwise known as the class bully. Not if Ilana Weiss ’03S has…
Dr. Daniel Tsadik is an Assistant Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2002 and wrote a book in 2007 called Between Foreigners and Shi‘is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority ...
When Ross Gordon ’05SB took over operations for the Morg Mart, the popular student-run convenience stand in the basement of ’s Morgenstern dormitory on the Wilf Campus, he was just looking for a way to make a few extra dollars. Instead, he says, his entrepreneurial spirit began to…
The partnership between alumni and current students provides an essential professional network that benefits everyone. Hundreds of alumni participate in programs of the Career Center, including student mentorship, participation on career panels, and opportunities to hire students as interns at ...
This summer marked the ninth year that ’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) operated Counterpoint Israel, which is tailored for Israeli teens from low socio-economic development towns in Southern Israel. This program is operated in collaboration with local municipalities and the…