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Dr. Richard Caputo (left), professor of social policy and research and director of the doctoral program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, is working on a longitudinal study on the usage or take-up rate of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). “The EITC lifts a substantial number of people out of…

Dr. Jonathan Feldman, assistant professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is the co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to study ethnic disparities in childhood asthma. The grant is shared…

Dr. Jonathan Fast Professor, Wurzweiler School of Social Work “Answers to Life’s Worries, in Three-Minute Bursts” The New York Times, Aug. 31, 2009 Dr. Victor SchwartzUniversity dean of students, �ۿ۴�ý, and associate professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral science, Albert ...

Richard Weisberg (left), Cardozo’s Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law, was named to the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration given by the French Republic for outstanding service to France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed a decree awarding Weisberg the Chevalier of the ...

Dr. Gabriel A. Cwilich, associate professor of physics at Yeshiva College, has been appointed director of the college’s Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. Cwilich, an expert on wave propagation in disordered materials and the physics of disordered systems, has taught physics at the…

The Third Annual Norman Adler Lecture in the Biological Basis of Behavior was held at the University of Pennsylvania on April 23. Dr. Pat Levitt, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the University of South Carolina's Keck School of Medicine, spoke on "Biological Underpinnings of Autism…

Dr. Gabriel A. Cwilich, associate professor of physics at Yeshiva College, recently served as the science advisor for two theater shows at the Ensemble Studio Theater: End Days written by Deb Laufer and directed by Lisa Peterson and Emily Levine at the Edge of Chaos, a one-woman show starring Los…

Dr. Lawrence J. Siegel, dean and professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, was elected president of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology on May 6. The council, which is represented at meetings of the APA (American Psychological Association), is consulted…

Dr. Joshua Karlip, assistant professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva College, received the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Karlip will spend the entire academic year of 2009-2010 engaged in the research fellowship, whose theme this year is ...

Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle undetected with treatable TB strains. This study will be published in "PLoS ONE,"…