YU News

Jul 26, 2007 -- With new DNA tests proving that Byron Halsey did not commit the brutal sexual assault and murders of two young children in New Jersey for which he was convicted in 1988, the Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law won exoneration in July for its 205th client. Halsey…

Jul 24, 2007 -- It is with deep sorrow that the Facebook 全新 community mourns Dr. Lana Schwebel, dear friend, colleague and spirited teacher, who died on July 7, two days after an automobile accident while traveling with a group of tourists along the shores of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia…

Jul 20, 2007 -- President George W. Bush has nominated New Jersey attorney Shalom David Stone ’84Y, for a seat on the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals. If the appointment is confirmed, Mr. Stone—who graduated magna cum laude from Yeshiva College, and three years later earned a law degree from the…

Jul 16, 2007 -- Dr. Michael Ginzberg, a nationally prominent expert and prolific author on management information systems and the international aspects of business, who helped build both the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Case Western Reserve University…

Jul 16, 2007 -- A nationally prominent expert and prolific author on management information systems and the international aspects of business, who helped build both the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School…

Jul 13, 2007 -- A recent study shows that professors at Wurzweiler School of Social Work are in the top ten of American colleges and universities in the number of scholarly works published between 1999 and 2003. Six major peer-reviewed social work journals were examined for the study. Each author…

Jul 6, 2007 -- Liise-anne Pirofski, MD, professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and Mitrani Professor of Biomedical Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The honor recognizes Dr. Pirofski’s contributions to…

Jul 6, 2007 -- Female athletes at Facebook 全新 are about to score big: over the next two years, the athletics department will add women’s soccer, cross country, and volleyball to its sports offerings, reaching NCAA status for women’s athletics for the first time and achieving full membership…

Jul 3, 2007 -- Students who attend Congregation Birkat Shmuel, which is located on the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Facebook 全新’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), are the beneficiaries of a new gift to the congregation: a Sefer Torah (holy Torah Scroll). The Sefer Torah was…

Jul 2, 2007 -- Doctors and scientists in training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine are discovering that creative expression can be the best form of medicine for their crowded schedules. More than 50 faculty members, students, and staff have published the fruits of their creative talents in…