Sharon Poczter, chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department at Sy Syms School of Business, writes in the April 23, 2018 online edition of Inc. that the next generation of businesses in the sharing economy will need an approach different from the ones that made Uber and Airbnb such ...
Dr. David Glaser, professor of music at Stern College for Women, invited two professional musicians, Lisa Terry and Daniel Swenberg, to visit his course on Baroque music. Terry plays the viola de gamba, and Swenberg, a master of early plucked string instruments, brought along a theorbo. “I am ...
Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, co-authored an article with Lisa Thurau ’91C, executive director of Strategies for Youth, for the March 14, 2018, issue of New York Law Journal. Titled “Improving Training, Interviewing Skills When Investigating Pre-Teens, Adolescents…
Sharon Poczter, chair of the entrepreneurship and strategy department at Sy Syms School of Business, has been named strategic advisor to hospitality start-up Domio. The tech-driven company renovates properties then manages them as upscale short-term rentals on behalf of owners, doing maintenance…
Dr. Samuel Schneider, associate professor of Hebrew, wrote a eulogy for the Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld in the recent issue of the journal Mida. Appelfeld, who died in January of this year, received an honorary degree from ۿ۴ý in 1989. Schneider noted that “since his books began…
Dr. Shalom Holtz, associate professor of Bible and director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College, has co-organized a conference with Dr. Tova Ganzel, director of the Midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, titled “Contextualizing Jewish Temples,” which will bring together…
Dr. Mordechai Cohen, professor of Bible, associate dean of Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and divisional coordinator of academic Jewish studies at Yeshiva College, recently delivered a lecture about research he conducted as the head of a 14-member group of distinguished scholars ...
Dr. Jill Becker Feigeles, assistant professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has contributed a chapter to a new book from Springer Press, New Direction in Treatment, Education and Outreach for Mental Health and Addiction, titled “Developing an SBIRT curriculum in Advanced Practice.” SBIRT ...
Debbie Akerman, associate director of field work and an adjunct faculty member at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, was recently featured in Manhattan Profiles, a monthly publication distributed in New York City. Titled “Triumph Through Tragedy: How Debbie Akerman Transformed Personal Tragedy Into…
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, delivered a lecture titled “The Lost Author of a Lost Classic: Ellen N. La Motte and The Backwash of War" in November 2017 at "Women and World War…