Dr. Barbara Blatner, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, will attend the La Mama International Playwrights Retreat in Umbria, Italy, led by playwright Erik Ehn, from August 18 to 28. Blatner will be presenting a play-in-process, 鈥淢arilyn Monroe in the Desert, a Dream in Three Parts.鈥 The La鈥
Dr. Greta Doctoroff, associate professor of psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently published two articles. She co-authored an article in the 2017 Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology titled 鈥淓ngaging fathers in effective parenting for preschool children using鈥
Dr. Paula Geyh, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, published in April by Cambridge University Press. This volume offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the American fiction of the past 50 years. It鈥
Gary Stein, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work and vice chair of the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network, recently published two articles in the field. 鈥淪ocial Work Involvement in Advance Care Planning: Findings from a Large Survey of Social Workers in Hospice and鈥
Daniel Pollack, professor of social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, recently published a brief article titled 鈥淗ow to banish child sexual groomers鈥 on Youth Today, a website created to provide resources to professionals working with young people. As the name suggests, a sexual groomer鈥
Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, appeared on the 鈥淩abbi Wechsler Teaches鈥 show on Sirius XM Stars. The show is hosted by Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler, the founding Rabbi of Congregation Or Zarua in Manhattan. Gurock's interview occurs about 21 minutes into the ...
Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the 糖心视频污 Center for Israel Studies, was recently interviewed by 鈥淭he Tel Aviv Review,鈥 a program on TLV1, an English-language podcast network based in Tel Aviv. In the interview, titled, "The Menorah鈥
Dr. Zafrira Lidovsky-Cohen, professor of Hebrew and director of Hebrew language and literature, coordinated the 2017 International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture sponsored by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic鈥
In January 2017, Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics, began work on a project called 鈥淧hysics of Interacting Quantum Systems with Phase Transitions,鈥 funded by a three-year $190,000 grant from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 (NSF) Division of Materials Research. 鈥淲e are all very鈥
Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, gave a keynote talk at an international conference in Germany sponsored by University of Cologne titled 鈥淴Prag 2017,鈥 otherwise known as the Seventh Biannual Experimental Pragmatics Conference. The title of his talk was ...