New Assistant Director of Athletics
New Assistant Director of AthleticsYeshiva University announced the hiring of Erica Lemm as the new Assistant Director of Athletics. Erica Lemm is a graduate of Central Michigan University where she received a Master of Arts in Sports Administration. Before working for YU, Lemm worked as sports coordinator for Washtenaw Community College, the Group Events/Sales Internship for the Detroit Pistons, a student ambassador with NASCAR Kinetics, and as an intern and volunteer for the Special Olympics in Michigan in 2009.
YU Welcomes Joseph Lieberman
July 24th – Articles on YU News and the US News website announced the appointment of former Senator Joseph Lieberman to the university faculty as the Joseph Lieberman Chair in Public Policy and Public Service. During the 2014-15 academic year, Lieberman will be teaching one undergraduate course and will present three public lectures at various schools of the university on topics including Judaism, the Middle East, and public service. The chair was created through a gift from university benefactors Ira and Ingeborg Rennert, and is Lieberman’s second award from YU; he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1989 for his leadership in Jewish and civic affairs. Lieberman was the senator of Connecticut from 1989 to 2013 and was the running mate of Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
SCW Professors Awarded Tenure
Four professors at SCW were awarded tenure this summer: Marnin Young, Gaetano Bloise, Richard Hidary, and Matthew Miller. Dr. Young, who holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, is an associate professor of art history at Stern and a 2014 recipient of the Karen Bacon Faculty Award. His book, Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time, 1878-1882, will be published by Yale University Press in 2015. Dr. Bloise, who earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge, is a professor of economics at SCW. His areas of teaching and research include general equilibrium, monetary theory, macroeconomics dynamics and asset pricing. Dr. Richard Hidary holds a PhD from New York University. A beloved member of the Judaic faculty, Dr. Richard Hidary teaches courses in Bible, Second Temple Jewish history and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Talmud and Midrash, and Jewish ethics. His book, Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud, was published in 2010. He is currently working on a second book about the Greco-Roman context of the Talmud and Midrash. Dr. Matthew Miller holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Iowa and an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. An English professor at SCW, he recently published Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (University of Nebraska Press 2010) and is currently researching the writings of Gertude Stein, George Oppen, John Ashbery and other poets.
GPATS Bus Cancelled
August 7th – Rumors in July that the GPATS bus – also known as the “married bus” – would be discontinued in the fall have been established to be true. According to Adina Poupko in the Office of Student Life, the bus has been temporarily discontinued until further notice, due to the fact that “the cost of the bus above [the GPATS women’s] stipend is just too much right now in the current fiscal situation.” Options for reinstating the bus, which shuttles roughly thirty students from Washington Heights to the Beren Campus in the morning and evening, are being explored. In an email to students, Poupko indicated that the bus could be reinstated if enough students bought in for the bus. The cost per student would be around $1,000 for the year.
Speech Graduate Program Postponed
Initially scheduled to open its door in fall of 2014, the graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology has been postponed. Its new proposed start date is fall 2015, pending the Council on Academic Accreditation’s review of its application for candidacy. The program’s director, Dr. Linda Carroll, has joined the YU faculty this fall.