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Nov 11, 2003 -- Almost a half century ago, C.P. Snow delivered his famous "Two Cultures" lecture lamenting the void between scientific and literary intellectuals. A similar case could have been made for scientists and theologians, two cultures that had been growing apart since at least the ...

Nov 11, 2003 -- Louis Feldman carefully straightens piles of tattered books and files that smother his tiny formica desk as if each formed a time capsule. On the desktop piles of syllabi, nearly 2 feet high, abut stapled lexicons of ancient Greek and Latin—handouts he prepares for classes that…

New York, NY, Nov 10, 2003 -- Milton Weinstock, executive vice president of account management for Grey Worldwide, will meet with students from Sy Syms School of Business Prof. Deborah Cohen’ marketing classes on Friday, Nov. 14 at 215 Lexington Avenue from 10 am to 12 pm. As part of the Inside ...

New York, NY, Nov 10, 2003 -- In his essay, “An Absurd Reasoning,” Camus expressed his dismay that science could not depict the universe at its most fundamental level. “[Y]ou tell me of this invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus,” he wrote. “You explain this world…

New York, NY, Nov 10, 2003 -- It is said that stories shape our lives. And for Peninnah Schram, associate professor of speech and drama at Stern College for Women, the stories her parents told her as a child influenced her life—and her profession. “I heard stories all my life but never thought…

Jenna Weissman Joselit, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Moshe Bar-Asher, and Zvi Arie Steinfeld have joined the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies faculty as visiting professors during the 2003-2004 academic year. Jenna Joselit, who is teaching “The Making of American Jews” during the fall 2003…

Bronx, NY, Nov 7, 2003 -- Dr. David Fidock, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is one of just eight scientists nationally to receive a 2003 Investigator in Pathogenesis Disease Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The grant, which ...

Bronx, NY, Nov 5, 2003 -- Dr. Pablo Castillo, assistant professor of neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been named a 2003 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences. He is one of just 20 promising biomedical researchers in the nation selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts to…

Nov 4, 2003 -- In two town hall meetings on November 4 at the Midtown and Wilf campuses, President Richard M. Joel addressed faculty, students, administrators, and staff on an array of issues important to university life and the community at large. The sessions, the first of their kind for YU ...

New York, NY, Nov 2, 2003 -- Terrorism, the war in Iraq, and continued violence in Israel sparked the guiding theme of tolerance and conscience for this year’s Yeshiva College Book Project: “How to Tell a True War Story: War, Memory, and the Individual.” To put current events into historical ...