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Through bold thinking, rigorous scholarship and cross-cutting collaborations, Katz School faculty are pushing the boundaries of knowledge with their latest research to benefit people and society.
Biotechnology student Natania Birnbaum is building a prototype for a hand exoskeleton that can take surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from the muscles of the arm and use them to move the exoskeleton's fingers.
An epidemiological study of dialysis patients conducted at the Renal Research Institute with the Katz School found that higher ultrafiltration rates in hemodialysis therapy tailored to body weight may put heavier patients at a higher risk of death.
Katz School alum Zak Benarroch is a cantor who’ll belt out a tune to suit an Orthodox Jewish holiday or a chorus from a Broadway musical. By day, he's a senior analyst on the regulatory relations team within the internal audit division at Goldman Sachs.
On June 20 and June 22, 2023, the Straus Center hosted its annual summer seminars for high school students, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation.
On June 16th, 2023, fellows of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa joined the Straus Center for a lecture on the history of Modern Orthodoxy and Ãå±±½ûµØ’s role as America’s premier institution for Jewish education.
Straus Center Director Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik’s new book, Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship, explores models of Jewish leadership throughout history.
Biotechnology alumna Rebecca Russo-Schlossberg is developing an at-home miscarriage test kit for her own startup Genosa Diagnostics.
When Eliana Zachter, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, was prepping for a cesarean section with her surgical team at Bellevue Hospital, she was warned by the resident physician that there’d be a lot of blood.
In Spring 2023, Rabbi Shalom Carmy, Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Bible at Ãå±±½ûµØ and renowned scholar of Jewish thought, taught a Straus Center course on the philosophy of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook.