Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Student Theses
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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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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 ... -
Seforim Sale Data Analytics
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)Motivation Annually, YU students run the largest sale of Jewish books ("seforim") in North America. Endeavors such as this involve a lot of logistics and a lot of collected data, so I want to leverage that data both to ... -
Jewish and Western Ethical Perspectives on Emerging Technologies
(Yeshiva University, 2022-06)Thesis Statement The rapid development of modern technology has brought with it a host of tough ethical dilemmas. I hope to explore how both our age-old Jewish values and our storied Western knowledge impact our approach ... -
The Decline of the Political Offense Exception in a Globalized World
(Yeshiva University, 2022-05)In demonstrating the decline of the political offense exception and its cause, this paper explores the history of American extradition treaties and the establishment of the Anglo- American incidence test used for determining ... -
Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 May Interact with KRAS through PPP2CA
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-05)Despite decades of research and its status as one of the most mutated oncoproteins in colorectal cancer (CRC), targeted therapies are yet to have been developed for the KRAS protein. To this extent, a previous study by our ... -
The Impact of Future Thinking on Financial Risk Taking
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-05)Financial risk is involved in many of the decisions that we make daily. These decisions may be influenced by our previous memories and experiences that involved financial risk (Graham, Megginson, & Smart, 2010). Our ability ... -
The Nature of Antisemitism: Commonalities and Manifestations
(2022-01)In this thesis, I will elaborate on and expand the construct proposed by Lipstadt that antisemitism is a typical conspiracy. In doing so, I will demonstrate through a survey of various forms of antisemitism throughout ... -
Elite Impact on the Capitol Hill Riot: The Straw that Stirs the Drink
(2022-01-01)A group of protesters convinced of the illegitimacy of the results of the 2020 presidential election gathered on January 6th at an event billed as the “Stop the Steal.” After some boisterous speeches by President Trump and ... -
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.
(2020-05-31)
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