Rams in the News: At Fordham, Building Team Bonding Through Boat Rides, Paintball And, Yes, The Metropolitan Opera

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At Fordham, Building Team Bonding Through Boat Rides, Paintball And, Yes, The Metropolitan Opera
Forbes 10-4-21
The Fordham men’s basketball team has bonded through various activities, including paintball, a boat trip and most recently going to the Metropolitan Opera.

A Year After a Jobs Bust, College Students Find a Boom
New York Times 10-8-21
The rise in campus hiring means more choices for some current students as well as belated help for the pandemic-hit class of 2020, said Annette McLaughlin, director of the Office of Career Services at Fordham University.

CHARLES CAMOSY
How Is a Catholic Supposed to Think About the COVID Vaccine?
The Atlantic 10-8-21
Charles Camosy, a Fordham University theology professor and bioethics specialist, explained the difference to me this way. “One is always blameworthy for ‘formal’ cooperation with evil,” he wrote in a September email, “that is, cooperation in which one’s will is aligned with that of the evil-doer’s.”

ANDREW RASMUSSEN
Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
The Guardian 10-13-21
Most unvaccinated Bronx residents don’t fit neatly into the anti-mask, anti-vaccine framework that has spread nationally, according to Andrew Rasmussen, associate professor of psychology at Fordham University.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Best Colleges in New York 2021
University Magazine 10-3-21
7. Fordham University

At Fordham, Building Team Bonding Through Boat Rides, Paintball And, Yes, The Metropolitan Opera
Forbes 10-4-21
The Fordham men’s basketball team has bonded through various activities, including paintball, a boat trip and most recently going to the Metropolitan Opera.

A Year After a Jobs Bust, College Students Find a Boom
New York Times 10-8-21
The rise in campus hiring means more choices for some current students as well as belated help for the pandemic-hit class of 2020, said Annette McLaughlin, director of the Office of Career Services at Fordham University.

An Overlooked Baseball Pioneer
Wall Street Journal 10-12-21
Mr. Bellán and his brother enrolled at St. John’s College, a Jesuit preparatory school that would later become known as Fordham University.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

ADITI BAGCHI
United Airlines is firing employees over vaccine noncompliance
BDNews24 9-30-21
“There’s public policy in favor of vaccine mandates, so it’s almost impossible for an employee to argue that it’s against public policy to terminate them as long as the employer provided exemptions on medical and religious grounds,” said Aditi Bagchi, a labor law professor at Fordham University School of Law.

MARK FALK
U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Mark Falk (Ret.) Joins Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP
PR Newswire 10-1-21
Judge Falk is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and at Rutgers Law School.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

KATHRYN REKLIS
Faith or politics? Trump supporters swell evangelical pews.
The Christian Science Monitor 10-5-21
“White evangelicalism has always been tied to ideas of whiteness and white Christian nationalism,” says Kathryn Reklis, professor of modern Protestant theology at Fordham University in New York. “At different moments the racial nature of white evangelicalism has come into focus or receded.”

DAVID GIBSON
A report finds French clergy sexually abused over 300,000 children since 1950
NPR 10-6-21
NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to David Gibson of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University about French children sexually abused by people in the Catholic Church.

MATTHEW HOCKENBERRY
Fact Check-No evidence cargo supply-chain issues have been deliberately orchestrated by U.S. government
Reuters 10-6-21
There is no “singular cause” for the current supply chain disruption, Matthew Hockenberry, Assistant Professor of Media Industries at Fordham University, told Reuters.

SARAH GREY
Bilingual Kids Learn New Languages Better
MedicineNet 10-2-21
And, lead study author Sarah Grey noted, “We also find that bilinguals appear to learn the new language more quickly than monolinguals.” Grey is an assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics, and director of the language program at Fordham University in New York City.

CHRISTINA GREER
Burning Bridges: Sen. Sinema Remains an Enigma
MSNBC 10-04-2021
“Lets dig into this with our Saturday night panel … Christina Greer is an associate professor of political science at Fordham University…”

CHARLES CAMOSY
How Is a Catholic Supposed to Think About the COVID Vaccine?
The Atlantic 10-8-21
Charles Camosy, a Fordham University theology professor and bioethics specialist, explained the difference to me this way. “One is always blameworthy for ‘formal’ cooperation with evil,” he wrote in a September email, “that is, cooperation in which one’s will is aligned with that of the evil-doer’s.

DAVID GIBSON
Is the German Catholic Church Going Rogue or Saving Itself?
Slate 10-6-21
According to David Gibson, the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, the German church is acting at an unusually good time for disaffected Catholics to speak out. “That ‘fortress Catholicism’ that John Paul II promoted only brought scandal and defections,” Gibson said.

NICHOLAS TAMPIO
Today op-ed blasts Biden DOJ for getting involved in school board meetings: ‘Outrageous’
Fox News 10-8-21
Fordham University professor Nicholas Tampio blasted the Biden administration in a new USA Today op-ed, claiming there was no proof of dangerous threats to justify the Justice Department getting involved in monitoring concerned parents at local school board meetings.

MONIKA MCDERMOTT
The silence of Donald Trump: how Twitter’s ban is cramping his style
The Guardian 10-9-21
Monika McDermott, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, said: “His online presence has definitely declined due to a variety of factors.

J. PATRICK HORNBECK II
Texas executions face delays over religious rights claims
AP News 10-9-21
J. Patrick Hornbeck II, a theology professor at Fordham University in New York, said the Supreme Court will look at balancing the state’s legitimate interest in security with prisoners’ ability to practice their religion.

CHRISTINA GREER
‘So many parts of this bill will save American families’
MSNBC News 10-10-21
…Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, discuss on American Voices with Alicia Menendez the stakes of whittling away Biden’s agenda.

PAUL LEVINSON
How William Shatner’s Blue Origin space trip can reignite passion for science
ABC News 10-12-21
Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham University, told ABC News that interest in space exploration has waned heavily over the last few decades especially since humans haven’t been on the moon since 1972.

ANDREW RASMUSSEN
Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
The Guardian 10-13-21
Most unvaccinated Bronx residents don’t fit neatly into the anti-mask, anti-vaccine framework that has spread nationally, according to Andrew Rasmussen, associate professor of psychology at Fordham University.

NICHOLAS TAMPIO
Democrats warn of ‘threat to democracy’ to deceive public into accepting their tyranny
Washington Examiner 10-14-21
Yet, as Nicholas Tampio, professor of political science at Fordham University, pointed out in a poignant USA Today article, there is no legitimate proof that such a threat exists.

IPSITA BANERJEE
Sensing the brain’s chemical signals
ETH Zurich 10-10-21
At Fordham University in New York City, Professor Ipsita Banerjee challenged her beyond the Bachelor’s degree curriculum with a hands-​on research experience working in a bio-​nanotechnology lab focused on tissue engineering.

DANIELA PILA
How the Philippines’ colonial legacy weighs on Filipino American mental health
The Los Angeles Times 10-12-21
“I was so tired of having people comment on my body and my skin tone and my body parts — things I had no control over,” said Pila, now 32, a postdoctoral researcher in critical race studies at Fordham University.