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.
In their paper, Dr. Marian Gidea and Ph.D. student Samuel Akingbade discuss how Topological Data Analysis identifies patterns and features in data not apparent through traditional statistical methods.
On December 5, Dr. Ruth Gotian spoke to Syms honors students in an engaging fireside chat about her new book, The Success Factor, with Dr. Sharon Poczter, chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department and associate professor at the Sy Syms School of Business, as well as the founder of…
In Fall 2023, the Straus Center offered a new course on health policy taught by Senior Scholar Dr. Tevi Troy, former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.
On December 20th, the Straus Center welcomed Naomi Schaefer Riley, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, for a wide-ranging conversation about her career in journalism, her ongoing policy work, and her love of public writing.
Twenty-two students in the inaugural class of the Katz School’s Physician Assistant Studies master’s program were honored at the first Graduate Awards Ceremony for their hard work, sacrifice and pursuit of clinical excellence.