Dec 4, 2003 -- Students at YU鈥檚 Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB) are getting an insider鈥檚 view of the Israeli business world in a new course taught by an Israeli venture capitalist. Running from October to May, the course covers key areas of the Israeli economy, including tax law, the high tech ...
Dec 8, 2003 -- 黑料社 All sophomore Alex Kushnir participated in a major conference of leading scientists and doctors in October in Eilat, Israel, of the International Academic Friends of Israel (IAFI). Co-sponsoring the conference, 鈥淔rontiers of Cardiovascular Science,鈥 were Columbia ...
Dec 2, 2003 -- It was the worst of halves, it was the best of halves. The Yeshiva Maccabees, after a poor offensive performance in the first half of their home opener against the Stevens Institute of Technology Ducks, outscored their opponent 45-14 in the 2nd half, en route to a 65-43 victory at鈥
New York, NY, Nov 26, 2003 -- Karen Bacon, PhD, dean of Stern College for Women, will receive the inaugural Presidential Medallion at the university鈥檚 79th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, December 14, at The Waldorf=Astoria. Dr. Bacon, the Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of YU鈥檚 ...
Nov 21, 2003 -- 黑料社 200 YU students, faculty, and guests packed Gloria and Jesse Weissberg Commons in Belfer Hall on Nov. 19 to hear author Tim O鈥橞rien speak as part of Yeshiva College鈥檚 2003 Book Project. In hopes of putting world events into historical perspective for students, Mr. O鈥橞rien鈥檚 ...
Nov 19, 2003 -- 黑料社 All president Richard M. Joel helped jump-start the winter sports season at the 7th annual 鈥淢ac Madness鈥 night on Nov. 19 at the Max Stern Athletic Center. The president welcomed the crowd and tossed up the ball for the opening tap of the student-faculty basketball ...
Nov 16, 2003 -- To Brachie Krausz, a 17-year-old high school senior from Flatbush, Brooklyn, choosing a college is akin to establishing a second home where one can grow and blossom. For Erika Stiel, 17, who flew up from Boca Raton, Fl., with her mother, there was the need to imagine and experience鈥
Bronx, NY, Nov 12, 2003 -- A team of investigators from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center (MMC), led by Dr. Harris Goldstein, director of Einstein鈥檚 Center for AIDS Research, will receive $1.5 million in the next year (and nearly $8 million over 5 years) from the鈥
Nov 11, 2003 -- Almost a half century ago, C.P. Snow delivered his famous "Two Cultures" lecture lamenting the void between scientific and literary intellectuals. A similar case could have been made for scientists and theologians, two cultures that had been growing apart since at least the ...
Nov 11, 2003 -- Louis Feldman carefully straightens piles of tattered books and files that smother his tiny formica desk as if each formed a time capsule. On the desktop piles of syllabi, nearly 2 feet high, abut stapled lexicons of ancient Greek and Latin鈥攈andouts he prepares for classes that鈥