2008 Woodie Awards
New Faces, More Opportunities
David Srolovitz
Issue date: 8/27/07 Section: Opinion
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First, you will see new faces in your classes. We have added 12 new tenure-track or tenured members to our faculty. They are all either rising stars in their fields or established scholars. I am proud of each and every one of these appointments. While all faculty members are special, I want to bring a few to your attention. Professor James Otteson joins us as a full professor of Philosophy and Economics and is the new Director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. Professor Adam Newton has come on board as chair of the English Department. We also welcome to campus three sociology, two psychology, two Bible and two Jewish History professors. In addition, Dr. Rachel Mesch is our new French professor and director of all of our modern language programs. Clearly, we had a spectacular recruiting season in the humanities and social sciences. Please do get to know each of these new professors - they are all fascinating people.
Second, you will see new faces around the Academic Advisement Center, just around the corner on Laurel Hill Terrace. Rani Lustiger, Esq., is our new Pre-Law advisor. Whitney Bennett, joins us from Columbia (and elsewhere) as our new Pre-Health advisor. If you have not been to the Academic Advisement Center yet and sat down for a heart-to-heart discussion with one of our advisors yet, please do so now - don't wait. They can help you plan, your classes, your career, your life….
Finally, I am proud to tell you that we have had a very busy summer for the sciences too. We have several new, state-of-the-art, biology teaching laboratories in Belfer Hall. Those of you familiar with the basement laboratories in Furst Hall will be absolutely awed at the difference. Sign up for biology lab! The Concourse Level of Belfer Hall (in the old days it was called the cellar - the elevators already had a "C" for that floor - hence the new name) is the home to several new psychology laboratories and to much of our psychology faculty. The concourse also contains a new physics teaching laboratory and is YU's new home for computational physical science research on the Wilf Campus.
In future issues of the Commentator, I plan to use this column to begin discussions of important issues for the University community. I hope you will join the discussion by sending in contributions to the Editor (or, if you can't say anything nice, please use my private email srol@yu.edu). If you have suggestions for topics, feel do not hesitate to let me know.
If you see me walking around campus or at minyan, please do come up and introduce yourself to me. While I cannot promise to remember your name after such a meeting (I sometime have trouble with the names of my own children), I do want to hear about your dreams and aspirations and how Yeshiva College can help you realize them.
Have a great academic year! May we all grow in Torah, in scholarship, and in ma'asim tovim!
Dr. David Srolovitz is Dean of Yeshiva College.
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