The Katz School of Science and Health will graduate 117 students in nine programs at its seventh commencement exercises on Monday, May 15, at 11 a.m. at the Weissberg Commons on the Wilf Campus.
SLP students Alexa Bliss and Joanna Pace provide speech pathology services through the Katz School's virtual community clinic to Henry Hecker, a New York resident who sustained a brain injury in 2019.
Students from the Katz School claimed first- and third-place finishes, as well as the Ethical Impact Award, in YU’s Innovation Lab Challenge Pitch Night.
The Security Operations Center is providing graduate students in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, computer science and data analytics with experience defending against cyberattacks in a hyper-realistic simulated environment.
Miriam and Naomi Fried enrolled in the Katz School’s M.S. in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship through Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ’s Pathways program, which allows YU undergraduates to take graduate-level courses in their senior year.
As a student in the Occupational Therapy Doctorate, Amanda Brenner works with Martin, a young man with autism, at the AFYA Foundation. He's popular and known for being garrulous, but he needs Amanda's help getting and keeping a job.
When Lorraine Marchand was young, she and her father created the Sugar Cube for a local restaurant chain. Years later, that experience inspired her to write the book, The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any Industry.
Brynna Kaplan developed an unusual case study as part of her four-credit course, Preparatory Methods II, which is designed to teach budding occupational therapists techniques they can utilize for injuries to the upper extremities.
AI Instructor David Sweet wrote Experimentation for Engineers, which covers a range of experimental methods including A/B testing, response surface modeling, multi-armed bandits and Bayesian optimization.
In the study, the researchers showed that children’s playfulness is evident as early as 6 months and continues to develop through 24 months, depending on cognitive growth.