The Activism Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the Action Committee for Racial and Social Justice, provides a mechanism through which Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) community members can engage in coordinated advocacy efforts that promote antiracism. We engage in these efforts using an intersectional lens and seek to address social injustice, specifically white supremacy, within
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Nancy Wackstein was the director of community engagement and partnerships at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) from February 2016 to July 2021, following a long career in the New York City nonprofit sector. Along with her duties as a director, she also acted as the adviser for the GSS Student Congress |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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Every November, the Office of Alumni Relations celebrates a special Mass on the Lincoln Center campus to remember deceased alumni and other members of the Fordham family. Please join us for Mass in the Rupert Mayer, S.J., Chapel followed by a luncheon in the 12th-floor lounge with featured speaker John J. Cecero, S.J., vice president
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Join us for a screening of The Dove Flyer (Farewell Baghdad), followed by a discussion between language instructors Mohamed A. Alsiadi and Hagit Galor Halperin, and Ahuva Keren. They will discuss the making of the film, the heritage of Iraqi Jewry, and the memories that Iraqi Jews brought with them from Iraq to Israel and
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Attend this Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Ph.D. |
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Most investment books try to assess the attractiveness of a stock price by estimating the value of the company. Expectations Investing, by Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport, provides a powerful and insightful alternative to identifying gaps between price and value. The authors suggest that an investor start with a known quantity, the stock price, and
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Orthodox Christianity and Islam have a long history of interaction that spans nearly 14 centuries. This webinar will begin a conversation on how to understand the dynamics of this complex relationship. Orthodox Christians and Muslims not only share cultural and historical space, but also common challenges in the present day as they navigate a world
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Please join Fordham University Army ROTC as we host a panel on First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11, a new book by author Toby Harnden. Hear from members of the first CIA team to go behind Taliban lines in 2001. This panel will discuss aspects of the CIA’s operations |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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Join us for craft beer and appetizers after Fordham takes on Georgetown in an afternoon football game! We will have two tables reserved for food and fellowship at The Berliner in Georgetown immediately following the game. Game tickets must be purchased separately. Tickets are $25 for alumni, family, and friends. RSVP by November 5. Space |
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All Fordham veterans and ROTC alumni are invited back to campus for a special Mass at the University Church to honor their service and remember fallen comrades. Veteran alumni and student veterans are invited to participate in the Mass as lectors, extraordinary ministers, cantors, and greeters. If you would like to participate in the Mass, |
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Many patients, particularly at the end of life, do not receive quality care. Palliative and hospice care are not often provided in a timely manner, if at all. Additionally, the health care wishes of patients are often not honored, thus dying patients may receive interventions they never wanted. Patients who experience intolerable suffering may not
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Join us at the 2021 Founder's Dinner as we announce our new fundraising campaign: Cura Personalis | For Every Fordham Student.
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The Students and Alumni Challenging Anti-Black Racism Caucus is a student- and alumni-led group for anyone who does not self-identify as Black, and is a space for doing introspective work as students and alumni collectively challenge white supremacy. |
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The Fordham Alumni Chapter of D.C.'s Zoom chef extraordinaire, Mike Mele, FCRH ’74, is back with a special virtual, Thanksgiving-themed cooking demonstration! All alumni chapters, families, and friends are welcome to join us as we learn how to prepare for the holiday and cook new recipes in the process. The Zoom link will be shared |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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The FBI and Fordham University are honored to sponsor a special International Conference on Cyber Security webinar on the cyber threats that loom on the horizon in the coming year.
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Faye McNeill, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering at Columbia University, will present “The Air We Breathe: Airborne Transmission of COVID and Air Quality.” Since late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally, causing a pandemic (‘coronavirus disease 2019’ or COVID-19) with dire consequences, including widespread death, long-term illness, and societal and
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Learn about different career paths for undergraduates in the international public economy (IPE) program. Listen to IPE alumni from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as they share their professional journeys and experiences. RSVP by November 8. Speakers Jillian Abballe, FCRH '13, advocacy manager and head of office, Anglican Communion Office, United Nations Victoria Rau, |
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Join us as we hear from Matthew McGarry, GSAS ’04, and Clare Pressimone, GSAS ’19, as they discuss their work in Afghanistan with Catholic Relief Services and give insight into how aid is changing given the new political climate in the country.
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Join us on Veteran’s Day for a virtual presentation with the New-York Historical Society, titled WWII & NYC: The Big Apple Goes to War. New Yorkers did not suffer the devastation experienced by citizens of London, Moscow, Berlin, or Tokyo during World War II. But New York City was a center of activity and contributed |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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Join the Long Island Alumni Chapter for a pregame tailgate before Fordham takes on Holy Cross! Enjoy a drink and something to eat with fellow Fordham fans before kickoff at 1 p.m. While there is no fee for this event, please consider making a donation to the Alumni Chapter of Long Island Endowed Scholarship. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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"The Russia Question" is a book talk series devoted to all things Russia, hosted by professor Michael Ossorgin, Russian program director at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus, with generous support from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Join us for a book talk with Caryl Emerson, Randall Poole, and George Pattison for their Oxford Handbook of
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The Fordham University Alumni Association presents Insights and Impact, an alumni speaker series that showcases Fordham alumni making a positive difference in society. We'll delve into issues that matter, inviting seasoned and emerging alumni leaders and experts to offer insights and show us how we, as Fordham alumni, can make an impact in our communities,
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The GSS Black Alumni Caucus is a virtual space for self-identified Black alumni of Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Service (GSS). Fordham GSS is holding space for you to connect with other Black alums and with GSS in order to create a relaxed and affirming environment in which we can support one another. Meeting |
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Interested in learning more about our pre-MBA, professional MBA, or executive MBA programs? Join us for a virtual information session and a live Q&A with the associate director of admissions.
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How far should artificial intelligence be entrusted to assume tasks once performed by humans? What is gained and lost when it does? What is the optimal mix of robotic and human interaction? We invite you to a conversation with Frank Pasquale, professor, Brooklyn Law School; Zahra Takhshid, assistant professor, University of Denver Sturm College of
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Suriname, a small Caribbean country on the northeast coast of South America, is home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere, having been established in the mid-1600s by settlers of Iberian Jewish origin and the scores of African people they enslaved. By the turn of the 20th century, the colony’s Jewish |
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As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world’s first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the finance industry. Join us for a conversation with this commodities pioneer moderated by CNBC senior markets correspondent Bob Pisani. Agenda 11:30 a.m.: Welcome Remarks: Sris Chatterjee, chair, Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis 11:35
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Join us for this Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call featuring Jason Bordoff, co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, and professor of professional practice in international and public relations at Columbia University SIPA.
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Martha K. Hirst, senior vice president, CFO, and treasurer, and Nicholas Milowski, vice president for finance and assistant treasurer, will present a webinar regarding the Fordham University operating budget, with a question-and-answer session to follow. |
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Join us as we hear how local business alliances shape communities and affect development from Norman Barnum, who serves as interim president and CEO at the New Orleans Business Alliance (NOLABA), an economic development organization that partners with the city's government to attract and support businesses, develop talent and workforce, and strengthen the sense of place.
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Finding your purpose has very little to do with "shoulds," obligations, and expectations, and everything to do with your heartfelt feelings about what you choose to do with your life. And that affects the world and everyone in it! It's your life and it's your purpose, so only you can live it. Join Genevieve Piturro,
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This exciting and interactive workshop, part of a series created for working professionals, will provide attendees with relevant, up-to-date, and unique information that can be immediately applied on the job. It'll be presented by Sertan Kabadayi, Ph.D., professor of marketing and director of teaching excellence. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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Join the Ignatian Spirituality Center for a Zoom event titled Cura Personalis: Care for the Whole Person in the Time of COVID. Through this experience of a worldwide pandemic, we have been called into a new reality where rest and care for our whole selves have become essential. As alumni and friends of Jesuit universities
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Each year in November, Fordham alumni activists from the late '60s gather to commemorate a major anti-Vietnam War action that took place at Fordham on November 12, 1969. This year, the Fordham Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) affinity chapter is hosting an on-campus reunion, and like-minded alumni from other eras (and current students) are |
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Eileen Lamberti and Tom Lamberti, FCRH ’52; the Fordham Alumni Chapter of Long Island; and Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University, cordially invite you to our annual Mass and reception for alumni, parents, and friends. This event costs $25 per person and includes heavy hors d'oeuvres, food stations, and an open bar. Please |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks. The Alumni Chapter of Westchester is having its annual toy drive from November 22 to December 17! Collect toys, gift cards, and clothing for the Elizabeth Seton Children's Center in Yonkers. There are drop-off locations at various businesses in Westchester associated with Fordham alumni. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center is the largest residential care center in
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Come learn how to win a free trip to Switzerland to participate in the 51st St. Gallen Symposium! The St. Gallen Symposium is the world’s leading initiative for cross-generational debates on economic, political, and social developments—completely organized by students. The global essay competition provides graduate and postgraduate students with an opportunity to share their points |
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Join contributors to The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021) Daniel Soyer, Ayelet Brinn, John M. Dixon, Diana L. Linden, and Devin Naar in a discussion of the diversity of the Jewish experience in New York. Over the centuries, Jews have influenced the city's culture, politics, |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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Join the Alumni Chapter of Germany for a Thanksgiving dinner in the heart of Munich. We'd love for you to join us as we kick-off the festive season with Fordham alumni and friends here in Germany! |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks. |
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Your monetary donations will help Fordham's community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area. Donate at fordham.edu/givethanks.
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Join us for a vigil for the lives lost at the Arizona-Mexico border and a celebration of the Fordham community's installation of Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project. The exhibit is composed of 3,205 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert |
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This third workshop will teach attendees about the role(s) of introductions and conclusions in academic writing and offer practical instruction in how to craft them. |
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Join us for a Council on Foreign Relations academic conference call with Michelle D. Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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Governments bailed out the very institutions that let the economy down, spurring a serious rethink of our financial system. Does it make any sense that it takes two days to settle a stock transaction? Why do retailers, operating on razor-thin margins, have to pay 3% for every customer credit card swipe? Why does it take
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Grace Shen is an associate professor of history and director of graduate studies in the history department. Her work centers on questions of identity and aspirations of modernity, change, and self-fulfillment in late-19th to late-20th century China. As a science historian, she has primarily explored this through the lens of knowledge production. Her first book,
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Despite the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, advance care planning remains poorly understood and often completed at the very end of life. Consequently, patients are left with making difficult health care decisions in highly stressful situations and poor health. Similarly, designated health care decision-makers often need to make these decisions with little or no knowledge |
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Save the date for Fordham Foundry's 4th Annual Ram's Den Business Plan Competition. Watch early-stage ventures, with a Fordham student or graduate among their founders, compete for the chance to win their share of $40,000. You’ll also have the chance to network with potential investors, mentors, and advisers. Ram’s Den serves as Fordham’s very own |
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Co-organized with The Met Cloisters in conjunction with the exhibition Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith (running August 30 to January 30, 2022), this roundtable will feature three scholars who have deep experience curating exhibitions that engage with the multiple cultures of medieval Spain. It will be moderated by the curator of the
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The Marymount Alumnae Board, administrators, members of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (R.S.H.M.) and their families, and Fordham University's Office of Alumni Relations invite you to a gathering celebrating Marymount College's founding in 1907 by Mother Marie Joseph Butler. This year’s event celebrates our R.S.H.M. with the theme of “Staying Connected: A A limited number of tickets to the in-person performance are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis beginning on Wednesday, November 17 at 10 a.m. ET until they are sold out. You may also view the performance via Livestream. All in-person performance attendees must have a ticket and be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. All guests must also wear |