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Straus Center Deputy Director and Senior Advisor to the Provost Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern delivered the Constitution Day Lecture at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, on the topic of King David and the American founding.

Katz School student Nikkat Afrin helped design a data framework for the World Literacy Research Center that is shaping a vision for how the world might finally understand which literacy programs truly help people learn to read.

Faculty and students in the B.S. in Nursing, M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies and M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology participated in the simulation event that was designed to mimic the realities of healthcare teamwork.

A study co-authored by Marian Gidea, professor of mathematical sciences, lays out a new mathematical framework for how spacecraft can make these fuel-free transfers between different kinds of orbits near Earth.

This month’s Syms Alumni Spotlight features recent MBA graduate Gabriel (Gabe) Einhorn, whose story is a powerful example of how the Sy Syms MBA combines professional growth, personal passion, and entrepreneurial vision. Personal & Professional Background A native of Teaneck, NJ, Gabe has built…

Cybersecurity students trained two popular machine learning models—Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest—to learn financial patterns that usually show up in fraud cases.

This past academic year, Straus Scholar Rebecca Guzman interned with bestselling author Dara Horn at the Tell Institute, which aims to improve Jewish history education in K-12 schools across the nation.

The Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Â鶹Çø congratulates Ezra Seplowitz ‘25YC on winning the 2025 Student Library Research Award for Honors Students. Seplowitz, a Straus Scholar alumnus, tied for first place for the award, which recognizes…

A recent review, led by Bibi Ayesa in the Katz School's biotechnology program, explores how CRISPR-Cas9 is helping to study genes with great precision.

An IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Wang is internationally recognized for his interdisciplinary research spanning multimedia, networks and machine learning.