CLIPS OF THE WEEK
This New York City MBA Program Has Been Making Waves — And Just Made Its Biggest Yet
Yahoo News via Poets and Quants 03-16-22
Now Fordham’s B-school is joining another great change in graduate business education that reflects the demands of industry: This month, the school announced that its full-time MBA program has received STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math — designation. Just like those New York powerhouses Columbia and Stern.
CHARLES CAMOSY
How the ‘Whole Life’ Movement Challenges the Politics of Left vs. Right
The New York Times 03-21-22
Charlie Camosy has been a leader in this movement. He is an associate professor of theology at Fordham University with a focus on moral theology and bioethics and the author of several books, including “Beyond the Abortion Wars” and “Resisting Throwaway Culture.”
DAVID GIBSON
Pope Francis’ Response to Ukraine Has Tapped Into One of Catholicism’s Deepest Conspiracy Theories
Slate 03-24-22
So why would Francis do this? There has been some speculation that the announcement has to do with his own efforts to quiet the radical traditionalists in the church. “It is a rare case where he’s being applauded by the traditionalist right, and so that’s a good thing, in one sense,” said David Gibson, the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. “In some ways, this can be read as the pope throwing a bone to conservatives.”
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Biden, Congress Host Irish Visitors
Irish Echo 03-16-22
Other Irish visitors include Sinn Féin leaders Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill who traveled to Washington after a series of engagements in New York including an event at the American Council on Foreign Relations and an Irish Unity debate at Fordham University.
Where is Saint Peter’s located? What to know about 15-seed that stunned Kentucky in NCAA Tournament
Sporting News 03-19-22
Other founding members of the MAAC include the U.S. Military Academy, Fairfield University, Fordham University, Iona College and Manhattan College.
Amanda Seyfried Became A College Dropout IRL To Play Karen In ‘Mean Girls’
The Kelly Clarkson Show 03-19-22
Amanda also talks about dropping out of Fordham University to play Karen in “Mean Girls,” saying it felt like the universe was screaming at her that she didn’t belong in college.
PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
NBC4-NY 03-17-22
[At 23:23] Coming up behind you there is Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York…”
ADMINISTRATION
TANIA TETLOW
New Presidents or Provosts: Avila U, Columbia College (Calif.), Florida College, Fordham U, Hofstra U, Northeast Iowa CC, Pacific U, Viterbo U, Widener U
Inside Higher Ed 03-18-22
Tania Tetlow, president of Loyola University New Orleans, has been named president of Fordham University, in New York.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Franklin Graham, Russia and the ‘Moralist International’
Religion News 03-22-22
That alliance is the subject of “The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars,” a book by University of Innsbrück sociologist Kristina Stoeckl and Russian scholar Dmitry Uzlaner, forthcoming this fall from Fordham University Press.
ADMINISTRATORS
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL
Christ Sighting: Lazarus
America Magazine 03-16-22
[O’Donnell, associate director of Fordham’s Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies,] teaches at Fordham University.
DAVID GIBSON
Pope in ‘tectonic’ shake-up of Vatican bureaucracy
Yahoo News via Agency France-Press 03-19-22
Making himself “Chief Evangelizer” encapsulates a “tectonic shift to a more pastoral, missionary church,” David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, said on Twitter.
DAVID GIBSON
Pope Francis’ Response to Ukraine Has Tapped Into One of Catholicism’s Deepest Conspiracy Theories
Slate 03-24-22
So why would Francis do this? There has been some speculation that the announcement has to do with his own efforts to quiet the radical traditionalists in the church. “It is a rare case where he’s being applauded by the traditionalist right, and so that’s a good thing, in one sense,” said David Gibson, the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. “In some ways, this can be read as the pope throwing a bone to conservatives.”
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
This New York City MBA Program Has Been Making Waves — And Just Made Its Biggest Yet
Yahoo News via Poets and Quants 03-16-22
Now Fordham’s B-school is joining another great change in graduate business education that reflects the demands of industry: This month, the school announced that its full-time MBA program has received STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math — designation. Just like those New York powerhouses Columbia and Stern.
Changemakers: A Rising MBA Program Joins Prestigious LGBT+ Group
Poets & Quants 03-22-22
Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business has a mantra: “Business with Purpose.” In the past year, the school has made significant moves to back up that philosophy.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
JERRY GOLDFEDER
Stroock Attorney To Lead Fordham Law Voting Rights Project
Law360 03-21-22 (subscription required)
Fordham Law School said Monday that it has picked Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP special counsel and Fordham Law adjunct professor Jerry Goldfeder to be director of its new voting rights project.
JULIE C. SUK
Legal Experts Speak at Radcliffe Institute on 50th Anniversary of Equal Rights Amendment’s Senate Passage
Harvard Crimson 03-22-22
The event, titled “Equal Rights and Wrongs,” featured Columbia Law School professor Jamal K. Greene ’99 and Fordham University law professor Julie C. Suk ’97. Harvard history professor Jane Kamensky moderated the panel, which drew more than 200 attendees.
DEBORAH DENNO
South Carolina can now execute inmates by firing squad
Washington Times 03-21-22
“They are more efficient,” Fordham University law professor and death penalty scholar Deborah Denno said on “Dan Abrams Live” in January. “They’re also more certain.”
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY
TINA MASCHI
Longest-serving CT prisoner, now 97, released 72 years after Greenwich yacht club murder
Greenwich Time 03-21-22
The men in their 60s, 70s and 80s, serving time on convictions from the 1980s and ‘90s, present unique ethical challenges, as well as financial and practical concerns, said an expert and author on the topic, Fordham University Professor Tina Maschi. Roughly a quarter-million older men are currently behind bars in the U.S.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
MARYANNE KOWALESKI
Princeton professor to deliver keynote at UHV’s History Day
University of Houston-Victoria newsroom 03-16-22
Because Jordan is a very famous historian, and Cuenca had never been formally introduced to him, she asked her former doctoral advisor at Fordham University, Maryanne Kowaleski, about the best way to approach him because Kowaleski knew him.
JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
Urban evolution: How species adapt to survive in cities
Knowable Magazine 03-21-22
Brown rats in Manhattan offer yet another case of urban evolution, though it may not impart advantages to the unloved creatures. Jason Munshi-South, an evolutionary ecologist at Fordham University in New York, and colleagues analyzed the genomes of 262 rats and found that the animals have evolved distinct genomic profiles in different neighborhoods. The scientists believe it’s because the rat populations don’t move freely between these spots, and slowly, over time, accrue differences.
ROBB HERNÁNDEZ
National Museum of the American Latino Has Announced Its Scholarly Advisory Committee
City Life Org 3-16-22
The 18 members of the Scholarly Advisory Committee include leaders from across various academic disciplines, such as architecture, anthropology, history and others. Together they will review exhibitions and long-distance learning and digital-engagement initiatives. An inaugural meeting will be held virtually in the spring to welcome Zamanillo and introduce the members of the council. Initial priorities include laying the groundwork for museum’s collections, research and publishing vision. The members of the council are: … Robb Hernández, Fordham University
CHARLES CAMOSY
How the ‘Whole Life’ Movement Challenges the Politics of Left vs. Right
The New York Times 03-21-22
Charlie Camosy has been a leader in this movement. He is an associate professor of theology at Fordham University with a focus on moral theology and bioethics and the author of several books, including “Beyond the Abortion Wars” and “Resisting Throwaway Culture.”
WARREN W. TRYON
A 50-Plus-Year Perspective on Personality Theory
Psychology Today 03-22-22
When I arrived at Fordham University in 1970 as a newly minted Assistant Professor, I was scheduled to teach Theories of Personality to graduate students enrolled in the clinical psychology doctoral program. [Warren W. Tryon, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Fordham University. He is a clinical psychologist who is interested in explaining psychological phenomena including why empirically supported treatments work.]
ZEIN MURIB
Laws targeting transgender youths lean on myths about White childhood innocence. This explains how.
The Washington Post 03-23-22
Zein Murib (@zeinmurib) is an assistant professor of political science at Fordham University in New York whose work focuses on the politics of sexuality, gender and race.
GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
The ‘Russian World’ ideology, the invasion of Ukraine, and the Orthodox Church
eKathimerini.com 03-18-22
George Demacopoulos, the co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University, joins our host Thanos Davelis to discuss the “Russian World” ideology pushed by the Kremlin and Patriarch Kirill, and look at how the war in Ukraine is impacting the Orthodox world.
ASIF SIDDIQI
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Strains International Space Station Partnership
Scientific American 02-25-22
Such comments are not terribly out of character for Rogozin, a Putin appointee. “He’s a bit of, you know, a personality,” says Asif Siddiqi, a historian at Fordham University, who specializes in Russian space activities
ATHLETICS
Distinguished Football Career Led Dave Rice to a Life of Volunteerism on Marco Island
Coastal Breeze News 03-16-22
It was good enough to attract attention from Fordham University.
ALUMNI
CorMedix Inc. Announces The Appointment Of Chief Executive Officer
TheStreet 03-17-22
[Joseph] Todisco obtained his MBA in finance from Fordham Graduate School of Business and his BA in Economics from Georgetown University.
Osprey Funds Makes Key Executive Hires and Promotes New CIO To Help Drive Growth
WICZ 03-16-22
Osprey Funds, LLC, a premier digital asset investment firm, announces the hiring of … [Regan Cucinel]l as Chief People and Productivity Officer. Overall, she has 20 years of experience in financial services and management, including 16 years at Bridgewater Associates. She is a graduate of Trinity College and received her MBA from Fordham University.
Iraq combat veteran became a counselor after experiencing PTSD. He’s headed into Ukraine to help.
Stars and Stripes 03-22-22
[Jared Malone] started going to counseling through Veterans Affairs and, after processing and healing, went back to school. Malone is now a licensed master social worker with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Hawaii and a master’s from Fordham University.
Veteran Connecticut prosecutor appointed new State’s Attorney in Litchfield
Hartford Courant 03-22-22
[David R. Shannon] obtained an undergraduate degree from from Fordham University and a law degree from University of Connecticut School of Law.
Joshua Marcus – Insmed: From lab worker to IP lawyer
Vanguard 03-22-22
After his first year, the firm covered his tuition so Marcus could take night classes at Fordham University School of Law. Around the time he earned his juris doctorate, Darby & Darby closed, and Marcus took his enhanced skillset to Cooley in Washington, D.C., and then Southern California, serving as an associate from 2011 to 2016.
Marcus Lindberg is new Head of IR at Nordnet
Nordnet 03-22-22
Marcus most recently comes from a Tele2 where he has been head of the company’s IR department. Previous roles for Marcus include Head of Investor Relations at Com Hem and equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York and London. Marcus is 35 years old and has a degree in business administration from Fordham University in New York.
BluSky Restoration Promotes Steve Lindstrom to Tampa Office Vice President
Fox40 03-23-22
[Lindstrom] earned a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University and holds several certifications specific to the restoration industry, including IICRC Fire & Smoke Restoration Technician, Water Restoration Technician, and Certified Healthcare Restoration Technician.
Mayor Adams Announces Appointment of New Members to Panel for Educational Policy
NYC.gov 03-22-22
Dr. Vasthi Acosta is the executive director of Amber Charter Schools. Dr. Acosta previously worked in the New York City Department of Education as an assistant principal, consultant, and teacher. She was a college professor at Hostos Community College in the Early Childhood Education department. Dr. Acosta received both a Doctor of Education (EdD) and Master of Art degrees from Columbia University’s Teachers College. She also holds a Master of Science degree from Bank Street College of Education and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University.
RVCC to Present Benefit Concerts In April Featuring Musical “Treasures”
New Jersey Stage 03-22-22
[Soprano Chantal Freeman] received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theology from Fordham University and completed her Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes School of Music.
OBITUARIES
MICHAEL L. MARLEY 1950 – 2022
Legacy.com 03-17-22
Meanwhile, Marley attained a law degree from Fordham University (Class of 1990) and was a criminal defense attorney in Manhattan for more than 30 years.
