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The mission of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program is to enhance education throughout Yeshiva College by providing an exceptionally broad, deep, rigorous education for our most talented students.
To fulfill those aims, we emphasize research, intensive writing, and sophisticated thinking: critical, analytic, quantitative, scientific, interdisciplinary, and creative.
Students who take honors courses commit themselves to hard work, a challenging search for understanding, and intellectual excellence.
Students who pursue the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program will experience especially rewarding interactions with faculty members through honors courses, individual mentoring, advanced work, and senior honors theses.
Upon graduation, honors students should feel confident that they can fulfill their potential through advanced training, lifelong learning, and leadership within their various communities.
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ISPIP: Improved prediction of epitope binding sites
(Yeshiva University, 2023-02)ISPIP is a meta-method designed to improve on previous classifiers by choosing components that use different strategies and using machine learning algorithms to train the model. It is based on Walder’s Meta-DPI, but ... -
Is a summer at sleep-away camp the answer? An analysis of the potential benefits of summer camp for students with classroom-based disabilities
(Yeshiva University, 2023-01)Throughout my studies in psychology, I found the topics that discussed students with difficulties in the classroom the most interesting. Whether in the case of a reading impairment, a lack of self-control, or an inability ... -
Treif Grief: Poetry Manuscript
(Yeshiva University, 2022-12)The pessimistic poems discussed here represent just one perspective through which I view the complexities of spirituality. In Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim, the author cites the 18th century rabbi, Simcha Bunem who ... -
Shidduchim; Maintaining Idealism in the Reality of a Relationship
(Yeshiva University, 2022-06)The shidduch process experienced by most orthodox individuals entails balancing many considerations for finding an “ideal” mate. While the Torah views of relationships and marriage are similar to results suggested in the ... -
Analysis of Modern Computing Threats: Injection and Server Side Request Forgery
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)In the modern world, digital computing and the Internet define the way we live our lives. Banking, commerce, transit, and even most jobs rely on various computing systems. Due to the importance of these systems, it is ... -
Inhibiting the Translation of Rev Protein with Triplex Forming Oligonucleotides
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)Despite ongoing advancements in care, patients affected by human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection continue to have a shorter than average lifespan and a decreased quality of life1. Therefore, more research is ... -
Caillebotte and Haussmann: Art as Commentary on the Modern Built Environment
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)A comparison of French impressionist artists and their works. -
The Right to Repair Electronics: Do you Own the Devices you Buy?
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)This paper will start with a history of how product repair used to be 20-30 years ago. Then it will discuss the practice of planned obsolescence which has been adopted in the electronics industry and is the root behind why ... -
The Relationship Between Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s "The Lonely Man of Faith" and "Uvikkashtem Misham"
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)"The Lonely Man of Faith" and "Uvikkashtem Misham" share much in common yet end very differently from one another. One of their most basic similarities is the fact that both essays revolve around a central dialectic: Adam ... -
Were the Federal Courts Biased Against Trump? An Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Failure through the Courts
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)This paper will analyze the possible factors of President Donald Trump’s low success rate in the federal courts concerning administrative policies. Whereas Trump’s predecessors were successful about 70 percent of the time ... -
Emancipation, Reform, and Multicultural Nationalism in Malbim’s Bucharest
(Yeshiva University, 2022-08)Abstract: Malbim’s status as one of the most prolific and original Biblical commentators is well known, and the role his writings played in combating the then-new Reform movement has been documented by scholars. However, ... -
Shame Culture and Democracy: Tocqueville and Rabbi Sacks on Blame and Repentance
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)“Cancel culture,” a form of ostracism practiced in America today involves people being removed from personal or professional circles on the basis of their stated views or opinions. These people are often guilty of having ... -
Synthesis of Asymmetric Diaryl Secondary Phosphines via P-C Cross-coupling
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)Synthesis of asymmetric, diaryl, secondary phosphines with benzene backbone via Cu cross-catalysis was attempted from commercially available starting materials. Homogeneous and heterogenous reaction systems were used, ... -
The Dyckman Farmhouse: An Architectural Analysis
(2022-05)The Dyckman farmhouse, located at 4881 Broadway in Inwood, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan Island. The house was built in 1784 by William Dyckman and restored in 1919 when it was donated to the city of New ... -
RNA Probing Methods: New Probes for the Detection and Visualization of Endogenous RNA in Fixed and Live Tissue
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-05)In recent years, RNA’s structure and function has been increasingly analyzed through the utilization of experimental methods, such as RNA in situ hybridization (ISH) and electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Oligonucleotide ... -
Science and Sacrifices: The Influences and Impacts of Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman’s Commentary to Leviticus
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-06)This study will endeavor to analyze the way the opening chapters of Leviticus depict the sacrificial laws and how Rabbi Hoffman utilized his vast knowledge of the writings of Jewish commentators, bible critics, and academics ... -
Democracy and The Human Face Divine Religious Humanism and Politics in the World of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Jacques Maritain
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)Yet, even as one embraces the political and legal dimensions of Judaism, which demand some relationship between religion and state, need the theocracy Herzog and Bar-Ilan propose be the inevitable conclusion? To put the ... -
Explaining the Covid-19 Market Collapse and Resurgence
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)The goal of this paper is to explain the market’s V-shaped trajectory, with the goal of pinpointing the precise cause of the wild market movements, with specific focus on the cause of the initial market collapse and its ... -
Family Homelessness in NYC: How Can We Solve It?
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)“I am not leaving any New Yorkers behind. We're moving together and that is the goal of what we must accomplish,” said the freshly inaugurated Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, at a March 2022 press conference. He was ... -
Understanding the Role of the PLA2G6 Gene in Neuromuscular Degeneration and Female Infertility
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)The PLA2G6 gene is being studied intensely as it has been linked with various neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers often use Drosophila as a model for human diseases due to its short lifespan, its tendency to quickly ...
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