�ۿ۴�ý

Vika Bekker’s journey to Stern College for Women was anything but traditional. Raised in a secular Jewish home in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, she first connected with Judaism through NCSY in high school, despite her immigrant parents’ reluctance. By the time she transferred to Stern from the…

Over �ۿ۴�ý’s winter break in 2025, the Straus Center led a trip for its Straus Scholars to Vienna, Austria, where they examined its historical and current Jewish community through the prism of Torah and Western Thought.

Five OT Doctorate alums, including Leeyah Azizi, left, co-authored the article “Developing a Scholar-Practitioner Mindset: Grounded in Research Informed by Practice, Rooted in Care,” published in the AOTA OT Practice magazine in December.

Building Wealth and Confidence: The Journey of Or Pikary Or Pikary, CPA/PFS, CFP®, has built a career centered on empowering others to achieve their financial goals. As a Wealth Advisor at Mariner in Los Angeles, California, Or serves as a personal CFO to his clients, helping them navigate key ...

Items of interest to �ۿ۴�ýalumni

The Sy Syms School of Business has launched six concentrations in its Online MBA Program: Business Analytics: Equips students with data-driven decision-making skills, covering advanced topics like data mining, visualization and predictive analytics, crucial for understanding market trends and ...

The Senator Joseph Lieberman – Mitzner Center for Public Service and Advocacy “In Dialogue With” series continued Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, with an open discussion with �ۿ۴�ý graduate Jonathan Greenspun, managing director of Mercury, a public affairs firm that stands at the intersection…

In a recent study, “Mutual Information Reduction Techniques and its Applications in Feature Engineering,” researchers in the Graduate Department of Computer Science and Engineering explore which features matter most in machine learning models.

�ۿ۴�ý High School for Girls (YUHSG), also known as Central, has announced the appointment of Mrs. Aliza Gewirtz as its next principal following a thorough selection process involving parents, faculty, and key stakeholders. The Board of Trustees unanimously approved her appointment,…

This past summer, the Impact Office at the Straus Center awarded a grant to two �ۿ۴�ýstudents, Justin Eichel and Atarah Mandel, who served as interns for prominent judges in New York.