CLIPS OF THE WEEK
DAVID GIBSON
NCR Podcast: Tom Roberts and David Gibson on Catholic censorship
National Catholic Reporter 09-29-17
NCR’s Tom Roberts and David Gibson of Fordham University discuss an unsettling pattern of Catholic writers and scholars being disinvited from speaking engagements and adjunct positions due to intimidation from far-right Catholic groups.
PAUL LEVINSON
Why misinformation is like ‘wildfire’ after tragedies like Las Vegas shooting
Las Vegas Sun 10-04-17
Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University, echoed the thought in an emailed statement: “It’s not so much that people are inclined to believe misinformation in the wake of a tragedy, it’s that people are understandably hungry for any information. They’re so upset about the tragedy and wanting to find out what happened that they’ll take in anything and everything, without whatever critical censors they usually employ. There’s no solution for this, except getting truthful information out as soon and frequently as possible.”
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Body Image Documentary ‘Straight/Curve’ Is Starting Important Conversations About Diversity In Media
Bustle 10-01-17
To continue the message of the film, McQuaile and the National Association for Media Literacy Education will kick off Media Literacy Week on Nov. 6 at Fordham University in New York City.
Hastings bridge to be used in bird study
Hastings Star Gazette 10-01-17
The National Park Service is collaborating with Fordham University to conduct the study.
Sputnik Launch 60 Years Ago Was Slow To Resonate With Americans
Seeker.com 10-02-17
Neufeld will speak Oct. 4 at an event in Washington, DC called “The Space Race and the Origins of the Space Age,” which will also feature representatives from Blue Origin, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Fordham University, and the Washington Post.
ADMINISTRATORS
DAVID GIBSON
NCR Podcast: Tom Roberts and David Gibson on Catholic censorship
National Catholic Reporter 09-29-17
NCR’s Tom Roberts and David Gibson of Fordham University discuss an unsettling pattern of Catholic writers and scholars being disinvited from speaking engagements and adjunct positions due to intimidation from far-right Catholic groups.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Slow Food with Simone Cinotto and Fresh Mushroom Brochettes
Indiana Public Media 09-29-17
[Simone Cinotto is] the editor of the essay collection Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities(Fordham University Press, 2014).
Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States by Dana D. Nelson (review)
Project MUSE 09-30-17
Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States. By Dana D. Nelson (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. 219 pp. $85.00).
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
MATTHEW A. GOLD
Canada taken aback by Trump trade team’s demands on Buy American in NAFTA talks
NewsCaf 09-28-17
“We have never seen free trade reciprocity work that way before,” said Prof. [Matthew] Gold, who teaches international trade law at Fordham University.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
Alleged leader of 2012 Benghazi attacks on U.S. diplomats to face trial in federal court
Watertown Daily Times 10-01-17
“We know how to do this,” said Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
Concerts, other soft targets remain vulnerable to attack, experts say
970 AM WMAY 10-02-17
Karen Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, told ABC News in May that an attack at a concert carries deep cultural significance.
JOHN BRENNAN
Former CIA director obliquely questions Trump’s leadership in Puerto Rico crisis
Fond Du Lac Reporter 10-01-17
At the beginning of the month, Brennan was named a distinguished fellow for global security at the Fordham University School of Law’s Center on National Security.
NESTOR DAVIDSON
States Pushing Boundaries of Control Over Their Cities
Euronews 10-01-17
“The folks who point to federal constitutional law and say, as a matter of federal constitutional law, that local governments are formally subordinate to the state — well, that’s true,” said Nestor Davidson, a professor at Fordham University’s School of Law.
JOHN PFAFF
The FBI’s Latest Report Suggests The ‘Ferguson Effect’ Is Real
The Daily Caller 10-01-17
As Fordham University law professor John Pfaff noted on Twitter, Chicago alone was responsible for 22 percent of the nationwide murder increase in 2016.
JOHN PFAFF
New northern Ohio U.S. attorney dismantles civil rights unit, creates new violent crime division
Cleveland.com 10-04-17
There is “some symbolic value into how you decide to break your lawyers up,” said John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham University School of Law that specializes in criminal law.
HOWARD ERICHSON
Why Are So Many New York Counties Suing Big Pharma Over The Opioid Crisis?
WXXI News 10-03-17
But Professor Howard Erichson agrees with him. Erichson’s a legal scholar from Fordham University.
MARC EDELMAN
A Fix for NCAA ‘Cesspool’ After Bribe Scandal? Pay Players, Experts Say
NBC News 09-28-17
“There’s this underground network already going on of secret deals and corruption,” said Marc Edelman, a[n adjunct]law professor focusing on sports and gambling [at Fordham University]in New York City.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
MARK CONRAD
A Fix for NCAA ‘Cesspool’ After Bribe Scandal? Pay Players, Experts Say
NBC News 09-28-17
Mark Conrad, an associate professor of law and ethics at Fordham University, said sports fans shouldn’t be surprised by the scandal given how much money flows in and out of the NCAA, in large part because of the Division I men’s basketball and football programs.
PAUL JOHNSON
Pitch The Perfect Investment – ValueTalks Special Podcast
Gears of Biz 10-01-17
Paul is also an Adjunct Professor at the Fordham University Graduate Business School, where he teaches a Seminar in Value Investing and was appointed as a Fellow to the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis at Fordham University in August 2015.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
BRYAN MASSINGALE, S.T.D.
Priest: U.S., Church need to deal with racism’s deep roots
The Catholic Spirit 09-27-17
“There are many ways to talk about racism as a political issue, a sociological phenomenon [and]a cultural divide, but at its deepest level, racism is a soul sickness,” said Father Massingale, a racial justice scholar and professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University in New York.
CHRISTINA GREER
Our territories need more than just our prayers
New York Amsterdam News 09-28-17
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream” and the host of The Aftermath on Ozy.com.
PAUL LEVINSON
With NFL controversy, did media play into Trump’s ‘distraction tactics’?
The Christian Science Monitor 09-28-17
“He’s like catnip to the traditional broadcast media,” says Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies and culture critic at Fordham University in New York.
PAUL LEVINSON
Why Facebook keeps stepping in it
Associated Press 09-28-17
Facebook is behind the curve in understanding that “what happens in their system has profound consequences in the real world,” said Fordham University media-studies professor Paul Levinson.
PAUL LEVINSON
Why misinformation is like ‘wildfire’ after tragedies like Las Vegas shooting
Las Vegas Sun 10-04-17
Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University, echoed the thought in an emailed statement: “It’s not so much that people are inclined to believe misinformation in the wake of a tragedy, it’s that people are understandably hungry for any information. They’re so upset about the tragedy and wanting to find out what happened that they’ll take in anything and everything, without whatever critical censors they usually employ. There’s no solution for this, except getting truthful information out as soon and frequently as possible.”
JOSHUA SCHAPIRO
Is Rohingya crisis changing West’s ‘romanticized’ view of Buddhism?
The Christian Science Monitor 09-28-17
“Everywhere there are human beings, you find political violence,” says Joshua Schapiro, senior lecturer at Fordham University in New York and an expert in Buddhist intellectual history.
CELIA B. FISHER
Revised Common Rule Is Changing Informed Consent
Medical Ethics Advisor 09-29-17
The recently updated Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, also called the Common Rule, is changing informed consent practices in two important ways, says Celia B. Fisher, PhD, Marie Ward Doty University Chair in ethics and director of Fordham University’s Center for Ethics Education in Bronx, NY.
PDF with article (pg 115) available upon request
CELIA B. FISHER
Scientists gave kids real guns for an experiment. Now ethicists are weighing in.
Mic 09-29-17
Even so, an ethicist said the potential harm might not have been worth it. “In any kinds of ethics evaluation, we have to balance the risk against the benefit,” said Celia Fisher, director of the Center for Ethics Education at Fordham University, in a phone call.
MARK NAISON
How Donald Trump turned a simmering NFL controversy into a movement that splits the country
DW.com 09-30-17
“It tells us that we have an incredibly divided country and that a large number of whites completely identify with Donald Trump making the most divisive and provocative statements toward racial minorities, in this case African-Americans,” said Mark Naison, a professor of history and African-American Studies at Fordham University and a former political activist.
MARK NAISON
Before the NFL Took a Knee: 4 Lesser-Known Moments of Resistance in Sports History
YES! Magazine 10-02-17
“Sports has always been an important platform in which America’s ugly racial history has been challenged and where African-Americans have fought for full recognition and respect,” said Dr. Mark Naison, a History and African American Studies professor at Fordham University.
AYALA FADER
Is It Possible To Leave The Orthodox And Remain Culturally Hasidic?
The Jewish Daily Forward 09-29-17
Ayala Fader, an anthropologist at Fordham University, has been studying this phenomenon, and has discovered a network of “double-lifers.”
ARNALDO CRUZ MALAVÉ
The Cruelest Storm: 200+ Academics Speak Out for Puerto Rico
Common Dreams 09-30-17
Arnaldo Cruz Malavé, Fordham University
SARAH GREY
Bilingual children learn new language faster: Study
Deccan Chronicle 10-02-17
“We also find that bilinguals appear to learn the new language more quickly than monolinguals,” said Sarah Grey, assistant professor at Fordham University.
KATHRYN REKLIS
Logan Lucky‘s criminals and why we root for them
The Christian Century 09-28-17
Kathryn Reklis teaches theology at Fordham University and is co-director of the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice.
GARRETT BROAD
Why We Should Make Room for Debate About High-Tech Meat
Civil Eats 09-28-17
Garrett M. Broad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.
ASIF SIDIQQI
Sputnik 1: 60 years ago, the first satellite launched into space
DerStandard.at 10-03-17
“Khrushchev knew almost nothing about the space he was interested in rockets at first only if they could be equipped with nuclear warheads,” says Asif Siddiqi. The professor of science and technology history at Fordham University in New York has been researching Soviet space history for years and has published several books on the subject.
SAUL CORNELL
D.C. weighs gun-law appeal, while ‘fate of the whole country’ hangs in balance
The Washington Post 10-03-17
“One might think they feel like, ‘Better Anthony Kennedy than anyone else we’re going to get,’ ” said Saul Cornell, a legal historian and professor at Fordham University.
SAUL CORNELL
Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State
The Baffler 10-03-17
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University.
JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza
News of the Hour 10-04-17
Stephen Harris at the State University of New York and Jason Munshi-South of Fordham University in New York City caught 48 white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) from three New York parks and three nearby rural areas.
ATHLETICS
VERT Adds More Volleyball Programs to Growing List of Team System Clients
KPTV Fox 12 09-28-17
VERT, a leader in performance technology, announces eight more premier NCAA women’s volleyball clients – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Northwestern University Wildcats, Purdue University Boilermakers, Baylor University, University of Arkansas, Quinnipiac University, Fordham University Rams and Limestone CollegeSaints.
Eye on the News | The Big Fix
City Journal 10-01-17
On December 31, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 showed up at the old Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue and 49th Street to watch a three-game matinee featuring Fordham University against City College, Columbia versus New York University, and St. John’s taking on Manhattan College.
Marco Lovell named Eastern N.Y. Girls Competitive Coach of the Year
Soccer Wire 10-03-17
“In recent years, the Phoenix players worked out together at Northstar, attended the Fordham University soccer camp and some players participated in the Dutch Elite program due to Marco’s encouragement.”
STUDENTS
Onorato’s Bumping it Up a Notch as a Captain
Zip06.com 09-27-17
After high school, Summer [Onorato] is hoping to go to Fordham University to study to either be a nurse, [medical]examiner, or perhaps even an athletic director.
Nats relief pitcher Sean Doolittle elopes with girlfriend Eireann Dolan ahead of the playoffs
The Washington Post 10-03-17
“We had the afternoon off so we eloped and we’ve never been happier,” [Eireann] Dolan, a student of theology at Fordham University, wrote in a Twitter post.
ALUMNI
Fox Business Network Chief Talks Beating CNBC and the Harassment Probe
The Hollywood Reporter 09-28-17
In 2009, [Brian Jones] finished his degree at Fordham University, so that he can teach elementary school once he retires.
New VUU president to students: Support one another
Richmond Free Press 09-29-17
The 40-year-old Dr. [Hakim] Lucas, who earned a master’s of divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a doctorate in education from Fordham University, became VUU’s 13th president and chief executive officer on Sept. 1.
Getting the point across
Toledo Blade 10-01-17
While a junior at Fordham University, Mr. [Alan] Alda studied in Europe, where he performed in theater in Rome and on television in Amsterdam with his father.
Next 2017: Ben Waxman and his wife, Whitney Reynolds, create apparel … and opportunities for new Mainers
MaineBiz 10-02-17
[Whitney] Reynolds was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., spent her high school years in Australia, then returned to the United States for college, earning a degree in anthropology from Fordham University.
Law school student makes the case for Treyger’s re-election
Brooklyn Daily Eagle 10-03-17
[Priscilla] Consolo, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham University, made news last year when she was accepted into several prestigious law schools and had her pick of which one of the top schools she would attend.
New Greenwich police officers sworn in
Newstimes.com 10-02-17
[Timothy] MacDonald is a graduate of Fordham University, and he worked previously in the accounts receivable department at a law firm. His father is a retired NYPD detective.
OBITUARIES
Father Justin (Augustine) Biase, 74, S.J., former pastor at Saint Bartholomew Church, of Camden, NJ
Father Justin Biase, former Camden pastor, dies
Catholic Star Herald 09-28-17
During his first year of priesthood, he lived at the friary of the Moroccan Martyrs and was a graduate student at Fordham University, from which he earned a master’s degree in sociology.
