CLIPS OF THE WEEK
JOHN PFAFF
U.S. Prison Population Remained Stable as Pandemic Grew
The New York Times 05-14-20
But there is resistance to releasing prison inmates because of a fear that they will commit crimes after they are set free, said John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School.
CATHERINE POWELL
Mother’s Day And COVID-19’s Impact On Women Of Color
Forbes 05-10-20
Catherine Powell, a law professor at Fordham, observes how the “Color of Covid” highlights numerous race-based inequalities, ranging from jobs to health care to the broader racial justice paradoxes of American life.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is Actually Even Worse
CBS New York 05-13-20
“We understand that unemployment means you don’t have a job,” according to Giacomo Santangelo, who teaches economics at Fordham University and the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University.
WFUV
45th Annual Gracie Awards Winners Announced By The Alliance For Women In Media Foundation
Cision 05-13-20
Madison Bristowe (Cityscape:Back to the Garden, Remembering Woodstock)
WFUV / Fordham University
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ADMINISTRATORS
MATTHEW BUTLER & ANDIE MARAIS
Changing Veteran Benefits in a Coronavirus Reality – Fordham PCS Launches Webinar Series
Cision 05-13-20
“The financial stability the GI Bill offers is a factor for many of our current student veterans and would be the same for those in a tight job market, like the one we are experiencing currently, and are considering higher education opportunities,” said Matthew Butler, MSgt. USMC (Ret.), director of Military and Veterans’ Services at Fordham University.
“We have found that veterans seem to have a tough time understanding how to take advantage of their benefits, especially with the uncertain environment we are all currently living in,” said Andie Marais, associate dean of enrollment and strategic marketing, Fordham PCS.
SCHOOL OF LAW
Report On NYC Schools: Eliminate Middle School Screens, Make High School Admissions More Fair
Patch 05-14-20
A group of experts and advocates convened by the Fordham Law School Feerick Center for Social Justice is calling for a middle ground approach, according to a report released Tuesday.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Cuomo is letting billionaires plan New York’s future. It doesn’t have to be this way
The Guardian 05-14-20
Zephyr Teachout is an associate professor at Fordham Law School and the author of Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
JOHN PFAFF
U.S. Prison Population Remained Stable as Pandemic Grew
The New York Times 05-14-20
But there is resistance to releasing prison inmates because of a fear that they will commit crimes after they are set free, said John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School.
JOHN FEERICK
‘We pushed back.’ A look back at the Heat-Knicks 1997 Eastern Conference semifinals brawl
Miami Herald 05-14-20
Players union lawyer Jeffrey Kessler said he would seek a temporary restraining order today to delay any suspensions until the union appealed the penalties to one or both of the NBA’s arbitrators: Ken Dam, a University of Chicago professor, and John Feerick, the dean of Fordham University Law School.
JURIJ TOPLAK
Push for mail-in vote gaining steam, and scrutiny
Boston Globe 05-10-20
The writer, a visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law, has worked as an election law expert and election observer in 15 countries.
CATHERINE POWELL
Mother’s Day And COVID-19’s Impact On Women Of Color
Forbes 05-10-20
Catherine Powell, a law professor at Fordham, observes how the “Color of Covid” highlights numerous race-based inequalities, ranging from jobs to health care to the broader racial justice paradoxes of American life.
MARK ALLEN COHEN
From Bruce Lee to L’Oreal, China is pumping up optimism for court cases against intellectual-property thieves
South China Morning Post 05-10-20
“Trade secret matters are very difficult to handle in China’s administrative processes due to concerns about local economic influences, uncertain procedures to maintain confidential information, fears of retaliation, etc,” Mark Allen Cohen, visiting professor at Fordham Law School wrote in a recent article.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
JULITA HABER
Trident Ph.D. Alumnus Publishes Research on Workplace Competency
Cision 05-14-20
Dr. Haber currently serves as the Director, Full-time MBA Program and Clinical Assistant Professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business in New York.
APOSTOLOS FILIPPAS
How Airbnb Hosts Can Survive The Great Reservation Cancellation
Forbes 05-12-20
Discussing Airbnb hosts as a monolithic block is misleading, finds Apostolos Filippas, assistant professor of information, technology, and operations at the Gabelli School of Business of Fordham University.
JOHN CAREY
Chatting via Zoom: A Blessing or a Blight?
The New York Times 05-10-20
The writer is a professor of media management at Fordham University.
PAUL D. MCNELIS
Even if we’re anxious to reopen the economy, we need to do it gradually.
America Magazine 05-09-20
Paul D. McNelis, S.J., is America’s contributing editor for economics and a professor of finance at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, in New York City.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY
FRAN BLUMBERG
Twelve tips for managing screen time for kids K-8
Star News 05-09-20
In the course of a lesson occurring in real time, make sure that your child presents both verbal and non-verbal cues to let the teacher know what may or may not be understood about a given concept, lesson, or assignment. – Fran C. Blumberg, Professor Division of Psychological and Educational Services, Fordham University
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY
LYN SLATER
13 inspiring influencers over 60 you should be following
Insider 05-11-20
A frequent attendee at New York Fashion Week and a professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service as of 2017, Slater is known for her daring yet classic style and is known to rock everything from a leather bustier dress to a Rolling Stones T-shirt on her Instagram page.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
RUORAN HUANG
Where to Take Virtual Language Lessons in Hoboken + Jersey City
Hoboken Girl 05-14-20
Its founder, Ruoran Huang, is trained in East Asian languages, literature, and linguistics, and has been teaching Chinese at various proficiency levels at Fordham University, Hunter College, as well as many private and public high schools in New York City and New Jersey.
CHRISTINA GREER
What will absentee voting mean for the June primaries?
City & State New York 05-14-20
To help make sense of what to expect as June draws nearer, City & State reached out to four experts on voting, elections and politics to provide some insight: Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, Bruce Gyory, Democratic political consultant and senior advisor at Manatt Phelps and Phillips LLP, Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program and Dr. Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University.
CHRISTINA GREER
Please focus Mr. Mayor
New York Amsterdam News 05-13-20
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, political editor at The Grio, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC.
ELIZABETH CARLEN
Science news in brief: From hurricane lizards to dancing black holes
The Independent 05-13-20
After Elizabeth Carlen, a biologist at Fordham University, caught pigeons with a net gun and took their blood samples during a series of road trips across the region, she discovered that birds all the way from Virginia to southern Connecticut show genetic signs of interbreeding.
JUDITH KUBICKI
Theologians concerned over bishops’ plans for 10-person pandemic Masses
National Catholic Reporter 05-13-20
As Felician Franciscan Sr. Judith Kubicki, a theologian at Fordham University, said: “It should be something coming out of the bishops’ committee. Not something that they’re borrowing from somebody else.”
PAUL LEVINSON
Watching cable news to see inside newsmakers’ homes
KCRW 05-13-20
Fordham University media professor Paul Levinson says this breakdown of the wall between viewer and TV personality is revolutionary.
PAUL LEVINSON
Hulu Channels and Plans Explained
Credit Donkey 05-13-20
Paul Levinson
Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University
MARK NAISON
Cancel or strike: Pressure mounts to help U.S. renters amid coronavirus
Thomas Reuters Foundation 05-13-20
“Today, tens of millions of people cannot pay rent or mortgages,” said Fordham University historian Mark Naison, who has studied rent strikes.
DIANE DETOURNAY
Teens won’t stop posting racist videos and challenges on TikTok. Experts explain why the problem continues.
Insider 05-11-20
“We should be resistant to labels such as ‘more woke’ on particular generations and stray away from looking at them through monolithic narratives,” said Diane Detournay, a professor at Fordham University who specializes in race, class, and gender in the media.
LEONARD CASSUTO
Can college towns survive coronavirus?
Mic 05-10-20
Any city is vulnerable to an economic downturn depending on where coronavirus flares up, but the severity of that impact has to do with whether or not a given place is a “college town” versus a “city with a college,” says Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English and American studies at Fordham University, located in the Bronx borough of New York City.
MOHAMMAD RUHUL AMIN
COVID-19 and the economisation of life in Bangladesh
The Daily Star 05-10-20
Dr Md Ruhul Amin is assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, Fordham University, USA.
ABRAHAM UNGER
How colleges can survive — and thrive
The Hill 05-09-20
Abraham Unger, Ph.D., is research director at Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform, an associate professor and director of urban programs at the Department of Government and Politics, Wagner College, New York, and Visiting Research Scholar in the Political Science Department at Fordham University.
KATHRYN REKLIS
The world High Maintenance shows us through the Guy’s eyes
Christian Century 05-08-20
Kathryn Reklis teaches theology at Fordham University and is codirector of the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice.
LEO GUARDADO
Mothers in sanctuary, living in churches for over two years, endure isolation
National Catholic Reporter 05-08-20
“This is our tradition even if we’ve forgotten about it,” said Leo Guardado, a Fordham University theology professor who is writing a book about sanctuary.
ALLISON PFINGST
Why Cottagecore and Prairie Dressing Are Fashion’s Biggest Trends in 2020
Teen Vogue 05-08-20
“A desire to escape to a simpler, more bucolic life is nothing new. 18th-century fashion icon Marie Antoinette had an entire rustic village (the Hameau de la Reine) built for her and her friends to play at, as an idyllic version of peasant life,” explains Allison Pfingst, fashion historian and advisor at the Fashion Studies program at Fordham University.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Why Horrific Unemployment Numbers Made The Stock Market Rise
CBS New York 05-14-20
From another view, “the definition of a share of stock is the net present value of a perceived future stream of income,” according to Giacomo Santangelo, economics professor at Fordham University and the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
OPINION: Economic crises aren’t new, so why are we missing the lessons in them?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 05-12-20
Giacomo Santangelo, a professor of economics at Fordham University, told me the redistribution of income as dividends or buying back stock does more than just “make the CEO look good.” It allows firms to stay in business and continue hiring, which allows workers to support their families.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is Actually Even Worse
CBS New York 05-13-20
“We understand that unemployment means you don’t have a job,” according to Giacomo Santangelo, who teaches economics at Fordham University and the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
What Companies Benefit From Coronavirus?
CBS New York 05-08-20
Giacomo Santangelo, who teaches economics at Fordham University and the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University, recently looked at where the economy is and where it could be going.
MICHAEL PARSONS
How To Protect Your Home From Hungry Rats During COVID-19
Realtor 05-08-20
Michael Parsons, a visiting research scholar at Fordham University who studies urban rats, says rats in places where food is scarce are showing signs of stress.
CHARLES CAMOSY
A pregnant woman was killed in brazen home invasion. Is her unborn child a victim too?
Staten Island Live 05-13-20
“Intellectually honest people know that when a pregnant woman is killed, something different has happened than when a woman who is not pregnant is killed,” Charles Camosy, a theology professor at Fordham University, wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Daily News shortly after the RHA was signed into law.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Fordham professor Charles Camosy on COVID Nursing Home Abuse
Matt Lewis & the News Podcast 05-08-20
Fordham professor Charles Camosy talks about COVID-19 and Nursing Home Abuse.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Biomedical Ethics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chicago Medicine 05-08-20
Charles Camosy, PhD, a bioethicist at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York City, objects to the inclusion of age as a criterion in rationing decisions.
TROY TASSIER
A tale of two pandemics: How coronavirus split the map of the US
ABC News 05-01-20
Troy Tassier, an associate professor of economics [at Fordham]who specializes in economic epidemiology and is studying COVID-19 data by counties, compared the situation to lightning starting a forest fire.
STUDENTS
CLASS OF 2020 SENIORS CELEBRATE GRADUATION
E! News 05-15-20
Before graduating from Fordham University, Dylan Mazzarella managed to bring his class together virtually for “one last song and dance.”
Fordham student’s sing-a-long video goes viral
NY1 05-12-20
Dylan Mazzarella, a senior in Fordham’s Class of 2020, went viral with this sing-a-long video he put together.
SPRING SENIOR DAY VOL. 4: A tribute to local senior student-athletes whose seasons were cut short
Gold Country Media 05-10-20
[Bella] Ayala will continue to play softball at Fordham University in New York while studying business with a primary concentration in marketing and secondary concentration in sports business.
Patch Honors Montgomery County Grads: Congrats, Class Of 2020
Patch 05-08-20
Ella Douglass, of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, will be studying psychology at Fordham University in New York City.
The Tolls and Terrors of a Pandemic, In the Words of College Students
Observer 05-08-20
[Vicky Kalpaxis]: As a Fordham student myself, many of the responses came from other Fordham students or colleges in the Northeast, but these feelings are widespread.
College in the fall: On-campus? At home? In limbo.
Times Herald-Record 05-08-20
[Jamie] Serruto plans to attend Fordham University in the fall, even if he has to take classes online.
ALUMNI
Neal Stoll selected as Top Attorney of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)
Life Pulse Health 05-14-20
[Neal Stoll] later obtained his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Fordham University in 1973.
Why NYC needs a virtual public school
New York Daily News 05-13-20
By TOM LIAM LYNCH [Fordham graduate]
Cinnaminson Therapist Counsels Those Struggling In Quarantine
Patch 05-10-20
[Katrina Brophy] went on to receive her masters in social work with a clinical concentration at Fordham University and graduated in 2014.
Monday Profile: Grand River’s Dr. Vargas has a passion for helping
Post Independent 05-10-20
[Alan-Michael] Vargas attended New York University for a year after graduating high school, but a belief in friendships and family meaning something motivated him to transfer to Fordham University.
Catching up with former three-sport star Sean Mackey: After high school, played football at Fordham University, then moved to Vegas
Tewksbury Town Crier 05-09-20
[Sean] Mackey graduated from TMHS in June of 1991 and elected to attend Fordham University in New York City on a football scholarship.
Danaher Wealth Management Adopts a Lindy HS Senior!
Patch 05-09-20
As a mother of five children, alumna of Fordham and Stetson University supporting current students at Fairfield, Stonybrook and Manhattan College, Meg [Danaher] knows the emotions and planning that goes into the transition from high school to college.
Northern Berkshire Union Hires Director of Pupil Services
iBerkshires 05-08-20
[Amanda Brooks-Clemeno] earned her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, a master of business administration from Fordham University and attended the MCLA Leadership Academy.
Procrastinator’s Guide to the 2020 primary election in Philly
Billy Penn 05-08-20
[Christina M.] Hartman earned a degree in international affairs from George Washington University, and a Master’s from Fordham University.
OBITUARIES
Robert J. Sullivan, 90, Of Moorestown, NJ, Engineer & Veteran
Korea War Vet From Moorestown Dies At Age 90
Patch 05-14-20
Robert received a Bachelor’s Degree from Fordham University, and he proudly served his country honorably during the Korean Conflict in the US Army.
Eileen Stephens, C.S.J., Of Brentwood, NY, Nun
Sister Eileen Stephens, C.S.J.
The Tablet 05-13-20
Sister Eileen earned a BBA degree in Business from St. John’s University in 1962; an MS degree in Business Education from Hunter College in 1970; and certification in Administration/Supervision from SUNY, St. John’s and Fordham University.
Daniel Zane, 94, Of White Plains, NY, Lawyer & Veteran
He saved lives during World War II. He died of covid-19 trying to be at his wife’s deathbed
Washington Post 05-13-20
After the war, he attended Fordham Law School and was a real estate attorney until his recent retirement. Daniel Zane had his own law firm for about six decades.
G. Richard “Dick” Dimler, 88, Of Philadelphia, PA, Professor
Six Jesuit priests from St. Joseph’s residence in Philadelphia die of COVID-19
New York Post 05-09-20
Born in Baltimore, he moved to New York and taught German and computer science at Fordham University for 34 years.
Catherine Pucciarelli, 85, Of Rockville Centre, NY, Board Trustee Member
Catherine Pucciarelli, the Village of Rockville Centre’s first woman trustee, dies at 85
Long Island Herald 05-08-20
She received a bachelor’s degree from the College of New Rochelle in 1956 and a master’s degree from Fordham University in 1962.
