On November 22, 2025, the Latino Social Work Coalition and Scholarship Fund hosted its 25th Annual Leadership Awards Gala at the Pelham Bay and Split Rock Golf Course. The milestone event celebrated 25 years of impact through scholarship, leadership development, and advocacy, while raising funds to…
Shikshit Gupta, a 2024 graduate of the Katz School’s M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, returned to campus to speak about his entrepreneurial journey and his startup, Alfamodo Lifestyle, an AI-powered fitness and wellness platform.
The Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2025 gathered to mark the culmination of more than two and a half years of rigorous coursework, demanding clinical rotations and profound personal sacrifice.
The seventh day of Hanukkah ( December 12, 1920) was a day of celebration in Telz (Telshe), Lithuania. [1] It marked the official opening day, the Hanukat HaBayit (dedication) of the Gymnasyon Ivri le-Banot (Hebrew Gymnasium for Girls). [2] Hanukkah, the holiday when the Temple in Jerusalem was re…
Cybersecurity students presented their project on the most common and damaging cyberattacks banks face every day—phishing attacks and distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks—at the NSF Cyber Security Summit in Boulder, Colo.
Ngoni Shaani, a student in the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, has developed the Zimbabwe Curriculum Standards Alignment AI Tool, which represents a fusion of technical ingenuity, lived experience and a deep commitment to educational equity.
Katz School students participated a Model UN-style summit that was part training ground, part cultural exchange and part awakening—a reminder that global change doesn't begin in government chambers, but often in rooms filled with students, young professionals and first-time diplomats daring to…
In Summer 2025, the Impact Office at the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought provided grants to several students with internships in the political arena, fostering a new generation of leaders dedicated to both public service and Jewish values. The Impact Office…
With the fall 2025 semester coming to a close, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought welcomed two high-profile guest speakers to end the year on a high note. Chief Judge Matthew Solomson of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims spoke to Dr. Tevi Troy's Straus reading…
Students in the Katz School’s Department of Graduate Computer Science and Engineering recently gathered to share projects they had spent months building, testing, improving and sometimes completely rethinking.