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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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Exploring the Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Recall
(2022-01-06)Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention to the present moment characterized by a receptive and non-judgmental attitude (Kabat & Zinn (994). One benefit researchers have examined is the effect of mindfulness ... -
The Equitable and Ethical Distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccines: A Jewish and Secular Approach
(2021-11)This paper will examine the Jewish and secular fundamentals of medical ethics and compare these two perspectives as it relates to vaccination triaging. I will begin by delving into the role that preventative medicine ... -
When faithful informational exchange is just not worth it: Reformulation ability as a predictor of other-initiated repair
(2021-09)Galantucci et al (2020) showed that when people are given instructions that they do not understand, they do not always ask clarifying questions. Why do they keep their confusion to themselves? Are people more likely to ... -
Initiation of Hemodialysis at One Month Following Fistulogram in Patients with Stage IV and V Chronic Kidney Disease
(2021-05)OBJECTIVE Previous studies have demonstrated that small amounts of contrast used in access related interventions had limited effects on the rate of progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) after fistulography, but ... -
Constitution or the Rule of Conscience? How the Psychology of Zionism Explains Israeli Law
(2021-05)Why doesn’t the State of Israel have a written constitution? This is a notable question because every single other democracy in the world has one, with only four exceptions. Moreover, Israel and its political leaders were ... -
Effects of RNAi knockdown of the gene for iPLA2β in muscles and neurons of Drosophila Melanogaster and rescue of climbing phenotype
(2021-03)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which neurons deteriorate and die in the brain (Elkouzi, 2020). PD affects many areas of life including memory, work, sleep, and exercise. There is currently no ... -
Force-indentation curves of spheroidal objects.
(2020-05)Currently, there are many methods to determine the forces and energy necessary to deform cells. These methods, however, are slow and require testing outside of the body. In this paper, we propose a theoretical method to ... -
The Adventures of Rabbah bar bar Hannah as a Polemic Against Babylonian Jewry
(2021-05)In the Babylonian Talmud (Bava Batra 73a1) there is a legal discussion pertaining to the buying and selling of ships. Amidst this deliberation, the Talmud veers off course, as it is wont to do, and introduces the reader ... -
Elegy for the Living
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Convergence of Fates.
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The ta’amei ha-mitzvot of the Sefer HaBatim
(2021-03)The Sefer HaBatim-Sefer Mitzvah is a work on the number, reasons, and purposes of the 613 commandments by thirteenth century Provencal scholar Rabbi Dovid b. Shmuel HaKochavi. His count generally follows that of Maimonides, ... -
Investigating the role of Wnt-pathway inhibition in mouse breast cancer tumor growth and metastasis.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2021-01)Aside from skin cancers, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American woman with 300,000 Americans diagnosed each year. Although great strides have been made in treating breast cancer, there are few ... -
The Counterculture to Chabad Lubavitch: The Search for Truth
(, 2021-01)The essence of Chabad, as highlighted in this study, is that it is, by its very nature, countercultural. As a philosophy of inherent love, community, and acceptance, it contains many parallels to the counterculture ... -
Understanding the interplay of life satisfaction, impact of public health crises, narrative transportation, and mind wandering
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2021-01-05)The proposed study is a research proposal that examines how individual difference trait and state variables influence the experience of a clip from the 2011 film, Contagion that portrays a pandemic similar to Covid 19. ... -
Group Entry as it Relates to Various Elements of Adjustment: Exploring a Domineering Group Entry Style.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2014-08)Group entry behavior is essential to and even diagnostic of social competence (Dodge, Schlundt, Schocken & Delugach, 1983). It thus has important consequences for social adjustment, including peer acceptance and the ... -
Maximizing the Study of Cascading Failures in Synthetic Electrical Grids.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-09)Power grids can be modeled as a network of nodes and the electrical lines that connect them. Removal of a single node or a group of nodes, either by natural systemic failure or human attack, causes a redistribution of power ... -
Divine Science: Reevaluating Rambam’s View of Ma’aseh Merkavah.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-09)Within Judaism, the areas of Cosmology and Cosmogony are most often where a perceived clash is found between science and religion. Among those who accept the validity of both the Torah and science, various solutions have ... -
True Tekhelet: Identifying Janthina janthina as the Hillazon-HaTekhelet .
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-06)Abstract Tekhelet dye that was once used in the biblical era for dyeing the curtains of the Tabernacle, the clothes of the High Priest, and the ritual fringes attached to the clothes of Jewish men is derived from the ... -
Stories of Religious Crisis: “Nothing,” “The War in Heaven” and “A Yud”.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-01-31)Coming into Yeshiva University as a freshman, I devoted my time to the careful analysis of Talmud that many students embark on in their morning programs. Now, I have shifted my focus to the literary tradition, which in ... -
An Introduction to Modeling NFL Tracking Data.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University., 2020-06)In this paper, I have provided a detailed introduction to modeling NFL Next Gen Stats Tracking Data to tackle complicated football analytics problems. I have further outlined why I believe such modeling is important, and ...
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