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Moving Jewish Educators to the Next Stage in Their Career: An Evaluation of New York University's Dual Master's and Doctoral Programs in Education and Jewish Studies
This study used a qualitative inquiry methodology to explore the experiences of students, which is a common methodological approach in research on higher education when a study's sample size is small and individuals' narratives are diverse (Anderson & Anderson, 2012; Golde & Dore, 2001; Maki & Borkowski, 2006). The evaluation team conducted initial and follow-up phone interviews with the 24 recipients of the Jim Joseph Foundation fellowships under this grant. The interviews inquired about professional experience and academic background, career goals, academic courses and other professional development, professional networking, current employment, and leadership experiences. In addition, the evaluation team conducted interviews with academic advisors and reviewed program materials. To validate the formation of a framework and quality indicators for the review of the programs, the team conducted comprehensive literature review and interviews with employers of the fellows. The evaluation team synthesized the data collected to determine the level of programs' capacity to prepare students for leadership roles in Jewish education and the impact of the programs on students to date
Evaluation of the Jim Joseph Foundation Education Initiative Year 3 Report
Launched in 2010, the Jim Joseph Foundation Education Initiative supports programs at three flagship Jewish institutions of higher education: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), and Yeshiva University (YU). As part of this initiative, HUC-JIR, JTS, and YU designed and piloted new programs, enhanced existing programs, and provided financial assistance to additional programs.American Institutes for Research (AIR) is conducting an independent evaluation of the Jim Joseph Foundation Education Initiative. This report is the third in a series of five annual reports that describe progress toward accomplishing the goals of the Education Initiative
Three-Body Decays of Sleptons with General Flavor Violation and Left-Right Mixing
We determine the widths of three-body decays of sleptons, ,
in the presence of arbitrary slepton flavor violation and left-right mixing.
These decays are important in scenarios in which the lightest supersymmetric
particle is the gravitino, a generic possibility in models with gauge- and
gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking. Three-body decays have been discussed
previously assuming flavor conservation and left-right mixing in only the stau
sector. Flavor violation and general left-right mixing open up many new decay
channels, which provide new avenues for precision mass measurements and may
play an essential role in solving the standard model flavor problem. We present
results for toy models with two-generation mixing, and discuss the
implementation of these results in SPICE, a program that simplifies collider
event simulations of flavor-violating supersymmetric models.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures; v2: published versio
Protein surface recognition with targeted fluorescent molecular probes
Protein surface recognition by fluorescent molecular sensors poses an immense challenge in supramolecular recognition chemistry owing to the immense difficulty of selectively targeting these large, relatively flat and non-contiguous domains. The fact that protein surfaces can exhibit different charges, topologies, and posttranslational modifications that can be found in other proteins in the mixture is an additional factor that complicates targeting and therefore, sensing specific protein surface modifications. A recent report, however, shows that the difficulty of sensing changes that occur on the surface of specific proteins could be circumvented by attaching a relatively non-specific synthetic receptor to a specific protein binder. The latter brings the receptor near the target protein and enhances its affinity toward its surface. Modifying the synthetic receptor with an environmentally sensitive fluorescent reporter along with suitable recognition elements enables such systems to target specific regions on protein surfaces and consequently, track modifications that result from conformational changes or binding interactions
Manipulation and assembly of nanowires with holographic optical traps
We demonstrate that semiconductor nanowires measuring just a few nanometers
in diameter can be translated, rotated, cut, fused and organized into
nontrivial structures using holographic optical traps. The holographic approach
to nano-assembly allows for simultaneous independent manipulation of multiple
nanowires, including relative translation and relative rotation.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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