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Straus Scholar Jason Friedman (YC 鈥�26) spent his summer interning for Judge Steven Menashi at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and assisting Dr. Tevi Troy, presidential historian and director of the Straus Center鈥檚 Impact Office. He gained firsthand insight into the workings of the鈥�

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi and Zachary Perlstein participated in the four-day event, 鈥淣ursing鈥檚 Brightest Beacons: Ignite, Innovate, Lead,鈥� which drew more than 2,000 nursing students and faculty from across the country.

Dr. David Li, director of the Katz School鈥檚 M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization, helped design an algorithm, called IDOS (Interpolated Density for Outlier Score), which is fast, efficient and doesn鈥檛 require much computing power.

A study in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis by Professors S. Abraham Ravid and Gabriela Coiculescu in the Sy Syms School of Business explores how risk can sometimes encourage innovation and ambiguity, by contrast, consistently discourages it.

In a recent study, Marian Gidea and colleagues investigate how geometry, topology and dynamics all connect in a special class of systems called conformally symplectic systems.

The Boston Globe interviewed Dr. Pablo Hern谩ndez-Lagos, chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department and director of the MBA program at YU鈥檚 Sy Syms School of Business, on the increasing use of AI by job seekers. Prof. Lagos authored a study that showed AI is highly effective at convincing鈥�

Former Straus Scholar Aharon Soloveichik (YC鈥�25) spent summer 2025 at the Beth Din of America in New York and Shaarei Shamayim in Toronto, where he deepened his skills in halakhic research, communal leadership, and Torah and Western thought in action.

The Straus Center has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the publication of "Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of the Hebraic Ideas on the American Story."

The National Museum of Mathematics in New York City made Tetrasphere, an interactive exhibit created by Katz School Professor David Sweet, a permanent part of its collection.

Historian and author Andrew Porwancher met with YU students to discuss his new book, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews."