As an MBA candidate in the Sy Syms School of Business, Laura Camargo is using her marketing expertise to uplift others through her volunteer work with Women of ALPFA New York, part of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA).
At the heart of Ruslan Gokham鈥檚 research is a simple but important question: when do we actually need complex AI models and when can simpler tools do the job just as well or even better?
Recent Straus Scholars graduate Josh Shapiro (YC 鈥25) spent his summer moving between Washington policy seminars, comparative religious arbitration research and advanced legal theory鈥攁n intensive capstone to his undergraduate humanities education before heading to Israel to write for startups.
A student team鈥檚 idea to use artificial intelligence and blockchain to speed up disaster relief was named one of 15 finalists among more than 2,400 participants worldwide at the recent ARC x USDC Hackathon in New York City
Dr. Patryk Perkowski's study focuses on two common ways organizations match workers to jobs: leaders assign people to roles from the top down or they rely on internal talent markets, where workers and managers express preferences for roles or teammates, and an algorithm matches them.
In Summer 2025, the Impact Office at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought provided grants to several students with internships in politics, publishing, journalism, and Jewish life, fostering a new generation of leaders dedicated to both public service and Jewish ...
AI student Tirth Joshi's research, 鈥淗ierarchical Graph Representation for Multi-Chain Blockchain Routing,鈥 introduces a clear, layered model that better reflects how modern digital finance actually works.
A recent event at the YU Museum featured a wide-ranging discussion between two experts who have spent decades studying, building and questioning artificial intelligence.
Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought faculty, staff and students were published in several leading publications over the month of December 2025, writing articles that contributed to the discourse and debates that continue to shape American society and the Jewish people鈥