CLIPS OF THE WEEK
AMY ARONSON
‘Crystal Eastman’ Review: The Vote Was Just the Beginning
Wall Street Journal 12-06-19
Given the sweep of her activism and her frequent appearances in histories of the Progressive Era, I was surprised to learn that “Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life,” by Fordham professor Amy Aronson, is the first full-length biography of her.
ELIZABETH YUKO
Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App
The Daily Beast 12-09-19
“That sounds like eugenics,” Fordham adjunct ethics professor and science journalist Elizabeth Yuko, who studies bioethics, told The Daily Beast on Monday.
JOSHUA SCHRIER
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies
Science 12-11-19
“Everyone is exploring different ways to do this,” says Joshua Schrier, a computational chemist at Fordham University in New York City.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Fordham felt like home
Putnam Town Crier 12-12-19
And when the Putnam Science Academy prep team guard took an official visit to Fordham University a few days before Thanksgiving, it felt like home.
Undergraduate Introduction to Humanitarian Action Class Visits the United Nations
Humanitarian Pulse 12-10-19
Undergraduate students in the Introduction to Humanitarian Action class visited the United Nations building in New York as part of the Humanitarian Studies Program at Fordham University.
Facebook clashes with Justice Department over encryption
CNN 12-10-19
“By enabling dangerous criminals to cloak their communications and activities behind an essentially impenetrable digital shield, the deployment of warrant-proof encryption is already imposing huge costs on society,” [William] Barr argued in a speech at Fordham University’s International Conference on Cyber Security in July.
ADMINISTRATORS
ANTHONY R. DAVIDSON
Fordham Real Estate Institute, MaryAnne Gilmartin Celebrate Program’s Success
Cision 12-10-19
The intimate, invite-only event, which was held at the University’s Lincoln Center campus, celebrated the third anniversary of REI and featured a fireside chat between Gilmartin and Dr. Anthony R. Davidson, dean, Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies (PCS).
SCHOOL OF LAW
Law School Enrollment Up Overall, But Not for Minorities
Bloomberg Law 12-12-19
The top six law schools for enrollment this year are Georgetown at 2,008; Harvard at 1,740; George Washington at 1,560; New York University at 1,379; Fordham at 1,267 and Columbia at 1,244.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE
The Top 28 Online Master’s in Social Work
Intelligent 12-06-19
33. MOST FLEXIBLE START TERMS – FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
CARL MINZER
China launches PR blitz to combat ‘foreign interference’ in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post 12-11-19
Faced with this new reality, many bureaucrats – including China’s diplomats – are increasingly performing for an audience of one,” said Carl Minzner, a veteran China watcher and professor of law at Fordham Law School in New York.
JAYNE SCHREIBER
Jayne Schreiber Joins Fordham Law School as Assistant Dean of Career Planning
Business Wire 12-10-19
Fordham Law School announced today that Jayne Schreiber has been appointed assistant dean of career planning.
JED SHUGERMAN
GOP Rep Calling Whistleblower a Liar Was Trump’s First Choice for Job of Withholding Whistleblower Complaint
Law & Crime 12-12-19
Fordham law Professor Jed Shugerman, for one, argued that, looking back, the timing of Trump’s attempt to replace Coats with Ratcliffe was suspicious.
JED SHUGERMAN & ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
The year of Tish
City & State New York 12-08-19
But some on the left – like Jed Shugerman, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law – think James has been chilled by Trump’s accusations that she is playing politics.
Shugerman – who was a volunteer consultant on Zephyr Teachout’s attorney general campaign, a fellow Fordham law professor who positioned herself to the left of James in the 2018 primary – gave James credit for her cases challenging the Trump administration, but called her a “major disappointment” when it came to taking on Trump personally.
JED SHUGERMAN & ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Hundreds of Legal Scholars: Trump’s Conduct ‘Precisely the Type of Threat’ to Democracy the Founders Feared
Law & Crime 12-06-19
Many of the 500-plus names signed on this letter are familiar: Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe, Vermont Law Professor Jennifer Taub, Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Professor of Law Jed Shugerman, UC Berkeley’s Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Prof. J.W. Verret, and University of Alabama School of Law Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law Joyce Vance, to name a few.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Behind the Big Tech antitrust backlash: A turning point for America
Yahoo! Finance 12-11-19
In 2014, he ran for lieutenant governor on a ticket with Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout, but lost in the primary.)
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
LERZAN AKSOY
AMERICA’S MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES SHARED THEIR SUCCESS STORIES AT THE AMERICAN INNOVATION CONFERENCE
GlobeNewswire 12-10-19
Noting that award winners come from diverse industries including automotive, retail, insurance, food and technology, Fordham Professor Lerzan Aksoy, emcee of the conference, said “It is heartening and extraordinary that innovation is not the province of a particular industry and proves that innovation that enriches the lives of individuals, and that seeks to make the world a better place, is possible for all firms.”
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY
FRANCIS PIZZARELLI, S.J.
Plain Talk: The power of human connection
TBR News Media 12-11-19
I then take the train at Penn Station to Columbus Circle and walk to Fordham University’s graduate school of social service at Lincoln Center.
FORMER ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
JOSEPH FITZPATRICK
A Theory of Truth From the South
Counter Punch 12-06-19
Father Joseph Fitzpatrick, then a sixty-five-year-old sociology professor at Fordham University, was wrestling with similar questions.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
CHARLES CAMOSY
Peter Singer on why we don’t help the global poor and why we should
Religion News Service 12-11-19
Charlie Camosy, though a native of very rural Wisconsin, has spent more than the last decade as a professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University.
JOSHUA SCHRIER
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies
Science 12-11-19
“Everyone is exploring different ways to do this,” says Joshua Schrier, a computational chemist at Fordham University in New York City.
THOMAS DE LUCA
Trump could lose by a landslide in 2020, but don’t underestimate the president
Los Angeles Post Examiner 12-09-19
Tom DeLuca, a professor of political science at Fordham University in NY, said it is possible the electoral college again propel Trump to victory, but that that scenario is unlikely.
JOSEPH PERRICONE
The Secret Message in Leonardo’s Painting
iItaly 12-09-19
Fordham University hosted the presentation of the research conducted on “Portrait of a Musician,” recently attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, introduced and organized by Professor Joseph Perricone, who teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at Fordham.
ELIZABETH YUKO
‘Tainted money can be used for good’: Epstein-backed Harvard geneticist George Church plans DNA-based dating app to wipe out all disease
Daily Mail 12-10-19
Elizabeth Yuko, a Fordham ethics professor, said Church’s app sounded like a Nazi eugenics program, telling The Daily Beast: ‘I thought we realized after World War II that we weren’t going to be doing that.’
ELIZABETH YUKO
Harvard Geneticist Wants to Build Dating App That Sure Sounds Like Eugenics
Popular Mechanics 12-10-19
“I thought we realized after World War II that we weren’t going to be doing that,” Fordham adjunct ethics professor Elizabeth Yuko, who studies bioethics, told The Daily Beast.
ELIZABETH YUKO
Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App
The Daily Beast 12-09-19
“That sounds like eugenics,” Fordham adjunct ethics professor and science journalist Elizabeth Yuko, who studies bioethics, told The Daily Beast on Monday.
CHRISTINA GREER
‘Queen & Slim’
New York Amsterdam News 12-12-19
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 co-host of the new podcast FAQ-NYC.
CHRISTINA GREER
South Bend: Why the city that made Pete Buttigieg could prove to be his downfall
The Independent 12-07-19
“What black folks know about him is not great,” says Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham University in New York.
AMY ARONSON
Amy Aronson, “Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life” (Oxford UP, 2019)
New Books Network 12-11-19
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her biography Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life (Oxford University Press, 2019) gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union.
AMY ARONSON
‘Crystal Eastman’ Review: The Vote Was Just the Beginning
Wall Street Journal 12-06-19
Given the sweep of her activism and her frequent appearances in histories of the Progressive Era, I was surprised to learn that “Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life,” by Fordham professor Amy Aronson, is the first full-length biography of her.
STUDENTS
Youth Choir Is ‘Music’ And Ministry
Diocese of Bridgeport 12-12-19
Drew [Mitchell] loves performing but is headed for Fordham University, where he plans to major in Communications.
Writer Spotlight: Rachele Lena
Her Campus 12-07-19
Rachele Lena is a Junior at Fordham Rose Hill & is a double major in Sociology & Philosophy.
ATHLETICS
Former St. Joseph and Ridge coach Taylor records 500th career win
Bridgewater Courier News 12-11-19
A member of the Athletics Hall of Fame at St. Joseph, where he led the Falcons to consecutive GMC Tournament finals appearances as a player, [Mark] Taylor went on to play at Fordham University.
Bryant shuts down Fordham for 69-61 victory
Providence Journal 12-10-19
Freshman Benson Lin scored a game-high 15 points and the Bryant University men’s basketball team held Fordham without a field goal for nearly 15 minutes as the Bulldogs earned the program’s first win over an Atlantic 10 opponent with a 69-61 victory on Tuesday afternoon at Rose Hill Gym.
COLLEGE ROUNDUP: William Smith swimming places third at Don Richards Invitational
Community Media Group 12-09-19
They will return to action Sunday, Jan. 19, when they travel to Fordham University.
Manhattan College, Fordham University go head-to-head for Battle of the Bronx
News 12 The Bronx 12-09-19
Manhattan College beat Fordham University 54-53.
ALUMNI
Finding your niche: How one lawyer built a practice by defending a notorious accused hacker
ABA Journal 12-12-19
“Where I was naive—and I think where law school makes you naive on the business front—is that it gives you the impression that if you sit down, read a bunch of cases and write a good brief, that is all the practice of law is about,” says [Tor] Ekeland, who graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2006 before joining the New York City office of Sidley Austin as an associate.
Greystar Hires Akira Kosugi as Managing Director to Lead New Japan Office
Fox 21 Delmarva 12-12-19
Mr. [Akira] Kosugi graduated from Fordham University with a B.S. in Finance.
Friends of the Riverfront appoints Kelsey Ripper executive director
Trib Live 12-12-19
[Kelsey] Ripper earned her law degree from Fordham University School of Law as well as her Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies and American studies.
Fabiola Ferro – Varian Medical Systems
Vanguard Law 12-12-19
From there, [Fabiola] Ferro fleshed out her educational experiences by earning a Corporate Compliance Certificate at a workshop at Fordham University in 2017.
Personnel File
Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal 12-11-19
[Susan] Méndez received her bachelor’s degree from Pace University, her master’s degree from Fordham University and her doctorate from the University of California.
Student Spotlight: NOHA-M.S. in Humanitarian Studies Exchange Student Grzegorz Kujawinski
Humanitarian Pulse 12-11-19
It was the beginning of a long journey to becoming a humanitarian professional, which led [Grzegorz Kujawinski] to the GSAS Master’s Program in Humanitarian Studies (MSHS) at Fordham University.
A lawyer Grancanario, in the publication ‘Best lawyers 2020’ of Spain
La Provincia 12-11-19
The Grancanario lawyer [Iván Ventura Díaz], trained at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), has made specializations at the American universities Columbia University in American Law, at Fordham University on Compliance regulation.
Spectacular Solar appoints Gen. Anthony Tata to Board of Directors; Heck Rounds Out Executive Team
EIN Presswire 12-11-19
A graduate of Fordham University, [Courtney] Piemonte will lead the company’s business development strategy, which includes management of commercial business, strategic partnerships and industry alliances. She is well versed in all forms of commercial banking, such as energy product lending, asset-based lending, hedge funds, mutual funds, capital markets and private equity.
David K. Roemer, PhD, Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Religious Research
24-7 Press Release 12-10-19
In 1964, Mr. [David K.] Roemer began his pursuit of a career in scientific education with a Bachelor of Science in physics from Fordham University.
Myrtle Stanley, PhD, Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who
24-7 Press Release 12-10-19
[Myrtle Stanley] subsequently obtained a Master of Arts in theology at Saint Mary Seminary and University in Baltimore, and completed postgraduate coursework at Fordham University from 1989 to 1991.
Three African American Women Scholars Taking on New Roles in Higher Education
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 12-10-19
[Tracy L. Jackson] holds a master’s degree in health science from the Lehman College School of Graduate Studies and is a doctoral candidate in educational leadership administration at the Fordham University Graduate School of Education.
Mario J. Gabelli, Chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, Inc., to Receive 2020 Horatio Alger Award
PR Newswire 12-10-19
After high school, Mr. [Mario] Gabelli received a scholarship to attend Fordham University.
Cognition Therapeutics Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of James M. O’Brien as Chief Financial Officer
Canadian Life Sciences 12-09-19
Mr. [James M.] O’Brien is a certified public accountant (CPA) with a Bachelor of Accountancy from George Washington University and a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University.
Goetz Schenker Blee & Wiederhorn Adds Steven J. Wiederhorn as Named Partner
New York citybizlist 12-09-19
[Marisa Goetz] received her J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from Fordham University.
[David I.] Blee received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from Union College.
Kate McGee
WUWF 88.1 12-09-19
[Kate McGee] got her public radio start at Fordham University’s WFUV.
Biz Buzz: Bin to Bottle welcomes Glynn and Cohen
Napa Valley Register 12-09-19
[Liz] Cohen holds a WSET Advanced Certificate and studied for the diploma, and has an MBA from Fordham University.
Scharfenberger a passionate advocate for his beliefs
Olean Times Herald 12-07-19
[Edward] Scharfenberger, 71, is a 1990 graduate of Fordham Law School who gained admission to the state bar a year after his graduation.
Acuant 2020 Predictions: The Year Digital Identity Takes the Stage
VM Blog 12-06-19
[Stephen Maloney] graduated from Fordham, has an M.B.A. and holds or has held TS clearance.
Review | Art and authenticity in Hong Kong
The Art Newspaper 12-06-19
[Andrew Hevia] was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to make Leave the Bus while getting his Master’s degree at Fordham University, and in his proposal to the committee he imagined it would be similar to a film he made in 2011 about Art Basel in Miami Beach, titled Rising Tide: a Story of Miami Artists.
Dawn Unity Column: Advent is a time of anticipation of Christ’s birth and the second coming
Palos Verdes Peninsula News 12-06-19
[Monsignor David Sork] was educated at St. John’s College, Camarillo, CA (B.A. and M.A.), and Fordham University, New York (M.A. and Ph.D.)
OBITUARIES
Margot C. Chrystal, 68, Of Larchmont, NY, Lawyer
Margot C. Chrystal
Patch 12-11-19
She received her J.D. from Fordham Law School in New York, NY.
Marie Chaminade Sheehan, O.P., 99, Of Amityville, NY, Nun
Sister Marie Chaminade Sheehan, O.P.
The Tablet 12-11-19
She earned a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Fordham University and in arts from Columbia University; and a doctorate in education from St. John’s University, Jamaica.
Regina Dowling, Of Old Greenwich, CT, College Administrator
Obituary: Regina Plunkett Dowling, 62, Of Old Greenwich
Patch 12-09-19
She worked as the Director of Campus Ministry at St. Joseph College in West Hartford and later as a teacher and administrator at Fordham University and Iona College.
Lisa de Cazotte, 58, Of New York, NY, TV Producer
Lisa de Cazotte Dies: Emmy-Winning Daytime Producer Was Age 58
Deadline 12-08-19
Born Lisa Smith in Westchester, New York in 1961, she graduated from Fordham University and began her television career as an intern on ABC’s One Life to Live.
James J. Egan, Jr., 95, Of Trumbull, CT, Attorney
Obituary: James J. Egan, Jr.
Patch 12-07-19
He received his undergraduate degree at Rider University and continued his education to receive his Law Degree at Fordham University.
Michael James Spellman, 84, Of Franklin, TN, Corporate Tax Attorney
OBITUARY: Michael James Spellman
Williamson Source 12-06-19
Michael later graduated from Fordham College and Fordham School of Law.
