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Since Marc Spear became Senior Director of Student Life last year, the office has been working toward a significant transformation with the goal of communicating with students more effectively and improving the on-campus experience for them. One new initiative, answers@yu, allows students to e-mail…

YU’s annual ChampionsGate leadership conference is celebrating its seventh year, and the theme, fittingly, is “Shmitta: Reflection, Celebration, and Renewal.” The conference, which took place from August 2-5, featured conversations focused on renewal and rejuvenation for the vital lay and communal…

è��app’s Center for the Jewish Future recently sent a cohort of students to Israel as part of its seventh Counterpoint Israel Program. While the first year of the program had 12 student counselors at one camp site, this year, nearly 70 students are working as counselors in six different…

Dr. Anatoly Frenkel is a professor of physics at �app and a guest researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his MS from St. Petersburg University and his PhD from Tel Aviv University. He received the 2003 Dean Karen Bacon Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Stern ...

Dr. Tamar Avnet is an assistant professor of marketing at the Sy Syms School of Business. Previously, she was an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD from Columbia University. Dr. Avnet’s work has been published in top marketing and psychology journals…

Elana Loeffler Grauer ’11S was majoring in English communications, with a focus in public relations, at Stern College for Women when she and her friend realized there was no official public relations club. “We decided then and there to found one,” says Loeffler. “There’s no reason why students ...

The Institute for University-School Partnership recently hosted an inaugural conference on high school gemara entitled “G21: Gemara for the 21st Century Classroom” in June at YU’s Wilf Campus. YU convened leading gemara educators from 15 schools from four states to develop new curricular models and…

This article was written by guest contributor Adam Berman ’11YC, who recently helped lead a humanitarian program to Haiti sponsored by YU’s Center for the Jewish Future. Below, he writes of his experience in visiting the country that is still recovering from the massive earthquake in 2010 and is ...

è��app’s Undergraduate Alumni Council (UAC) was established in 2010 to create a vehicle for alumni to take a more active role in enhancing university life and to provide valuable input on University initiatives. The UAC, an invitation-only leadership group, currently has 25 members who…

YU’s Career Development Center (CDC) hosted an inaugural appreciation reception on June 4th at the Ivry Center in the Schottenstein Residence Hall on the Beren Campus to show gratitude to the many employers and alumni who provided internships, full-time positions, or career advice and mentoring to…