2008 Woodie Awards
Ferkauf Program Provides Research Forum for Students
nili seleski
Issue date: 5/13/08 Section: Science and Health
On May 15, the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and the Institute of Public Health Sciences will be hosting the fifth annual Yeshiva University Behavioral Science Student Research Conference. While scheduled to be held on the Jack and Pearl Resnick campus of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), "Research Day," as the program is commonly called, is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at the university.
Research Day began when Dr. Sonia Suchday, associate professor of psychology at Ferkauf, advocated for the conference and helped form a university-wide committee to launch the event. Five years ago, the first conference was held with support from YU President Richard M. Joel and funding from Provost Morton Lowengrub's office.
"This being the fifth Annual YU Research Day, it is an important event as it is another milestone in the growth of YU as an institution exemplifying the highest academic qualities," noted Michael Gill, associate Dean and Master's for Mental Health Counseling Program Director at Ferkauf.
Gill added that the event is critical because it unites the various schools and departments from all of the univserity's various campuses.
From noon until 4 p.m., attendees will partake in a two-part program. First, President Joel and his wife, Esther Joel, Ph.D, an alumna of Ferkauf, will greet attendees. The program will continue with addresses from Dr. Lowengrub, who has supported research as a means of improving academic quality, and from the keynote speaker, Dr. Laurie Bauman, professor of pediatrics at AECOM and director of the Preventative Intervention Research Center at AECOM.
Dr. Bauman, one of the top grant-funded researchers at AECOM, will speak on the topic "The Seduction of Individual Level Models of Behavior."
Student research will fill the second part of the afternoon; Research Day continues with a poster presentation featuring over sixty different projects. Students and researchers from all over YU will present their research and take the opportunity to discuss their findings with other students, faculty, and attendees of the conference.
Research Day began when Dr. Sonia Suchday, associate professor of psychology at Ferkauf, advocated for the conference and helped form a university-wide committee to launch the event. Five years ago, the first conference was held with support from YU President Richard M. Joel and funding from Provost Morton Lowengrub's office.
"This being the fifth Annual YU Research Day, it is an important event as it is another milestone in the growth of YU as an institution exemplifying the highest academic qualities," noted Michael Gill, associate Dean and Master's for Mental Health Counseling Program Director at Ferkauf.
Gill added that the event is critical because it unites the various schools and departments from all of the univserity's various campuses.
From noon until 4 p.m., attendees will partake in a two-part program. First, President Joel and his wife, Esther Joel, Ph.D, an alumna of Ferkauf, will greet attendees. The program will continue with addresses from Dr. Lowengrub, who has supported research as a means of improving academic quality, and from the keynote speaker, Dr. Laurie Bauman, professor of pediatrics at AECOM and director of the Preventative Intervention Research Center at AECOM.
Dr. Bauman, one of the top grant-funded researchers at AECOM, will speak on the topic "The Seduction of Individual Level Models of Behavior."
Student research will fill the second part of the afternoon; Research Day continues with a poster presentation featuring over sixty different projects. Students and researchers from all over YU will present their research and take the opportunity to discuss their findings with other students, faculty, and attendees of the conference.
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