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Mwansa Phiri, an artificial intelligence student, is developing machine learning models to help African farmers grow enough food in the face of drought, flooding and tightening regulations on water and fertilizer use.

Vanessa Murad’s “Parent & Caregiver Guide to Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)” draws on a needs assessment of 33 occupational therapists who work directly with children with ARFID.

On April 13, 2026, the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in conjunction with the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, hosted Dr. Carl Richard to discuss his book So Help Us, God: American Presidents and the Bible and the role scripture has played in shaping…

Tanaka Tachiveyi, center, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Digital Marketing and Media, participated in the conference to help ensure that voices too often overlooked are not only heard, but shape the conversations that matter.

At a time when quantum computing is often described as the future of technology, an AI student, Prathmesh Joshi, is asking a deceptively simple question: what if we’ve been building quantum programs the wrong way all along?

Assistant Professor Travis Oh's report explores how generative AI is transforming every stage of marketing research, while warning that speed alone does not guarantee better decisions.

As the academic fieldwork coordinator for the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate, Terrie Ludwig has brought occupational therapy to summer camp for children with disabilities.

A Journal of Corporate Finance study by Pablo Hernandez-Lagos, director of the MBA program in the Sy Syms School of Business, has found that AI companies can sometimes boost profits by keeping their technology less transparent, even if greater openness would increase user adoption.

In an industry defined by constant disruption, Melanie Winer, who holds an MBA from the Sy Syms School of Business, has built a career not by chasing certainty, but by embracing change.

In the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate, Asha Roy is reshaping what it means to be an occupational therapist by training students not just to deliver care, but to lead, innovate and drive change across an evolving healthcare system.