Briefs: Summer in the lab; Subway success; Touro accounting

Issue of July 31, 2009 / 10 Av 5769

Summer in the lab

Two Yeshiva University students from Long Island are spending the summer paired with researchers and professors at YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Yona Saperstein of Lawrence and Motti Friedman of West Hempstead each received the prestigious Roth Scholarship, which includes a stipend and housing.

Friedman, a Rambam Mesivta graduate, is studying the way light affects the growth of pigmented fungus. Saperstein, who is examining the effects of oxygen on polymerization, is a graduate of DRS. He is pre-med, entering his fourth year at Yeshiva University, and said he was happy to be spending his summer in a lab.

“I’m not such a camp person,” he said.

Subway largest kosher restaurant chain

Subway may have succeeded where others have failed — or at least

where others have not done particularly well. Numerous attempts by

both kosher-owned restaurants and chains like Nathan’s have not come

nearly as close to what is emerging as a highly successful kosher

franchise, according to Menachem Lubinsky in his Kosher Today

newsletter.

The first kosher Subway opened in Cleveland several years ago before

the concept expanded to New York. Today, the chain is far larger than

Mendy’s, Kosher Delight or Dougie’s, each with up to a handful of

stores. Kosher Subway stores operate in Cedarhurst, Flatbush and eight

other locations. The 11th is soon to open for business in North Miami

Beach, at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center; the 12th

may soon follow in Miami Beach, the report said.

Tour offers Masters in Accounting

Accounting students will be able to earn a Master of Science degree

from Touro College’s Graduate School of Business for the first time.

The program, being offered in both Brooklyn and Manhattan, will meet

the new criteria established by New York State’s guidelines requiring

prospective accountants taking the  Certified Public Accounting (CPA)

exam to have 30 additional credits on top of their undergraduate

credits in accounting. Classes begin in September.