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At the Katz School's 2026 Graduate Computer Science and Engineering Research Forum, Jelidah Nayingwa, a student in the Katz School's M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, presented research showing how AI can turn plain English questions into the code needed to retrieve information from hospital…

At the 2026 Symposium on Science, Technology and Health, Nicole Aziz, a student in the Katz School's M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology program, presented research that examines whether whispering truly harms the voice more than normal speech, challenging a long-standing recommendation in voice…

The Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is honored to welcome Professor Barry Strauss to Â鶹Çø for a series of lectures, classroom visits, and special events centered on the Judeo-Roman conflict. One of the world's leading scholars of classical history, Professor Strauss is ...

On July 29th, Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, Senior Advisor to the Provost and Deputy Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Â鶹Çø, presented alongside David Barton of WallBuilders — a historian and founder of the organization known for ...

On Sunday, June 21, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted its annual high school seminar, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation, at the Moise Safra Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Each year, this selective program invites current high school ...

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As Americans marked the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, the Â鶹Çø Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought brought YU students on a journey through key sites of the American founding to explore the deep and often overlooked role that Jewish ideas ...

On May 18, 2026, Wurzweiler School of Social Work celebrated the commencement of the largest graduating class in its history. The day was filled with inspiring speeches, celebration, and memorable moments shared with family, friends, and faculty. For one graduate, Rachel G., one of those moments ...

At the 2026 Symposium on Science, Technology and Health, Monalissa Zibwowa, a digital marketing student, presented research that examines how Zimbabwe can attract more visitors from the United States and use tourism growth to create jobs for young people.

A small amount of carefully designed noise could help computer models better capture the complex motion experienced by energy-harvesting devices in real-world environments, according to research presented by Penghui Han, a Ph.D. student in Mathematics at the Katz School.