Sep 10, 2004 -- Matthew J. Maryles, a member of the tax advisory firm of Wolf Maryles & Associates, has been elected to the board of trustees of ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ (ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ). Mr. Maryles, a Brooklyn resident, first became involved in the university’s leadership in 1990, when he became a founding…
Aug 30, 2004 -- ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ is bringing its program of advanced Torah studies to Long Island’s Five Towns and Rockaway communities under an off-campus initiative of postgraduate training for modern Orthodox educators. The program, HAFTR Community Kollel, is the latest in a series of outreach…
Aug 25, 2004 -- Yedidya Saiman hopes his research in intercellular communication will help scientists better understand how we function. He and 10 other ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ (ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ) undergraduates spent nine weeks this summer investigating causes and treatments of ailments including Alzheimer’s disease…
Aug 9, 2004 -- David Pelcovitz, author and nationally recognized authority on parenting, adolescent development, and other child-related issues, has joined the faculty of ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education. In announcing the appointment, ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ President ...
Jul 29, 2004 -- Enrollment of French Jewish students at ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ (ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ) for the fall semester will more than double, said John Fisher, PhD, director of enrollment management, to nearly 40 French men and women when classes resume in August. “ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ offers something that colleges in France cannot…
Jul 26, 2004 -- Eleven students who graduated from ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ (ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ) in May 2004 are returning to their alma mater this month to work as graduate fellows in a program created under a presidential initiative. The inaugural awardees of the Graduate Fellowship in University and Community ...
Jul 21, 2004 -- The leadership of the ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ Women’s Organization (ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æWO) is sponsoring singles buffet suppers to assist alumni and their friends to get to know each other and perhaps for some to meet the man or woman of their dreams. “We were looking for a special project to celebrate…
Jul 8, 2004 -- Volume 26 of the Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy has been published and is available for purchase, announced Cantor Bernard Beer, director of the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music. Both religious and secular scholars and musicologists worldwide consider the publication…
Jul 7, 2004 -- Henry Kressel, a managing director of the venture capital management firm Warburg Pincus LLC, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Sy Syms School of Business. He joins a prestigious group of business, civic, and philanthropic leaders on the board of the undergraduate college…
New York, NY, May 20, 2004 -- More than 2,000 students in the fields of law, medicine, social work, education, Jewish studies, undergraduate studies, and psychology will receive degrees at ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æâ€™s 73rd Annual Commencement Exercises on May 20 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden at 5…