CLIPS OF THE WEEK
Dagger John: the bishop who built Irish America
Irish Times 03-14-18
[John Hughes] was, however, the founder of Fordham University…
NICHOLAS TAMPIO
‘Common Core’ Review: Standards Put to the Test
The Wall Street Journal 03-11-18
Mr. [Nicholas] Tampio, a professor of political science at Fordham University, acknowledges that American education is not what it should be, but he is wary of a system of uniform, federally driven standards.
The Pigeon Stalker
The New York Times 03-08-18
Ms. [Elizabeth] Carlen — a doctoral student at Fordham University whose dissertation explores how urban pigeons differ from one city to the next, or even by borough or neighborhood — has gathered nearly 400 pigeon samples, mostly from the five boroughs of New York City.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
New businesses support the Envolve
Kathimerini.gr 03-08-18
Among the supporters in the US are MBKA, Shark Branding, Miami Dade College, WIBO, and Fordham University, UPenn Law School and Georgetown Law Center.
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SASB and Fordham University Announce Collaboration
PR Newswire 03-08-18
Fordham University will provide a permanent venue for SASB Standards Board meetings, beginning with SASB’s next Standards Board meeting at Fordham tomorrow.
AT&T Honors Fordham’s Mentors
Bronx Times 03-11-18
AT&T presented Fordham University’s Club Amigas/Mentoring program a $450,000 check in honor of its 15th anniversary on Wednesday, February 28 at the univeristy’s Tognino Hall Duane Library.
Lakeland Aims to Diversify Teaching Staff
TAPinto.net 03-12-18
Partnering colleges include: Manhattan College, The College of New Rochelle, Manhattanville College, Fordham University,…
Dagger John: the bishop who built Irish America
Irish Times 03-14-18
[John Hughes] was, however, the founder of Fordham University…
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Norwich Writers Series Presents Award-Winning Poet Karin Gottshall to Kick Off Poetry Month
Norwich News 03-09-18
This collection, “Crocus,” won the Poets Out Loud Prize and was published by Fordham University.
SCHOOL OF LAW
Who Has Access to Healing?
Publicnow 03-07-18
A Fordham Law School panel highlights the recurring tragedy of police-caused homicides in the U.S.
Where to celebrate International Women’s Day in NYC
Metro 03-07-18
This roundtable discussion at Fordham Law School (150 W. 62nd St.) features legal professionals from Harvard University, the United Nations and more.
Everything You Need to Know About International Women’s Day on March 8
CelebCafe 03-07-18
This roundtable discussion at Fordham Law School (150 W. 62nd St.) features legal professionals from Harvard University, the United Nations and more.
NLJ: Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs
TaxProf Blog 03-09-18
We’ve ranked the top 50 law schools according to the percentage of their 2017 juris doctor graduates who took associate jobs at the largest 100 firms. …20. Fordham
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
DAVID A. ANDELMAN
Please don’t start a global trade war, President Trump
CNN 03-07-18
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of its Red Lines Project, is a contributor to CNN and columnist for USA Today.
DAVID A. ANDELMAN
For Trump, a meeting with Kim is the ultimate test
CNN 03-11-18
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of its Red Lines Project, is a contributor to CNN and columnist for USA Today.
GEORGE H. FRIEDMAN
Finra unpaid arbitration increased in 2017, PIABA report finds
Investment News 03-07-18
The idea of Finra using its surplus to fund unpaid arbitration didn’t sit well with George Friedman, a former director of Finra arbitration who is now an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School.
ROBIN LENHARDT
Snow storm pounds U.S. Northeast, closing schools, snarling commutes
Reuters 03-08-18
Fordham Law School Professor Robin Lenhardt, 50, was climbing the hill home from the Maplewood train station after learning that some New Jersey Transit services were suspended due to overhead wire problems.
CAROLE L. BASRI
Do not give holy Jewish artifacts to a country that expelled its Jews
The Times of Israel 03-06-18
Carole [L.] Basri is an adjunct professor at Fordham University Law School, a visiting professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law, and a visiting professor at Pericles Law School.
NESTOR M. DAVIDSON
Let the Mayors Lead
City Lab 03-08-18
Nestor Davidson is the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law, and Director of the Urban Law Center at Fordham University School of Law.
JOHN PFAFF
What makes a good prosecutor? A new study of Melissa Nelson’s office hopes to find out
Jacksonville.com 03-09-18
Fordham law professor John Pfaff, whose 2017 book “Locked In” argued that prosecutors were the driving factor behind increased incarceration, said this type of data will allow elected leaders to understand the impact of their policies.
JOHN PFAFF
A Crop of Reform-Minded Mayors Is Trying to Fix Policing and Fight Mass Incarceration
The Nation 03-12-18
“The single-most-powerful tool a mayor has is the ability to elect a police chief,” said John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School.
JOHN PFAFF
Trump Wants To Execute Drug Dealers. Here’s Why That Won’t Fix The US Drug Epidemic.
BuzzFeed News 03-13-18
Legally, the idea of a death penalty also looks like a nonstarter, law professor John Pfaff of Fordham Law School told BuzzFeed News.
EDMUND J. FERDINAND III
Community Channel: National Merit finalists announced, Artists honored…
Westport News 03-09-18
Westport’s [Edmund J. Ferdinand III], a senior managing partner and founder of Ferdinand IP, has been named adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, teaching an “Advanced Entrepreneurship and IP” course.
CARL MINZNER
China’s anti-graft legal reforms
Daily Times 03-12-18
“What Xi strives to perform is to centralize power in order to exert that power over China’s unruly bureaucracy,” said Carl [Mizner], a Chinese law expert at Fordham Law School in New York.
CARL MINZNER
China’s Legislature Blesses Xi’s Indefinite Rule. It Was 2,958 to 2.
The New York Times 03-11-18
“Term limits, avoidance of a cult of personality, and the end of routine political purges — all of these were part of China’s reform-era leaders’ efforts to steer the nation out of the chaos and instability of the Maoist era,” said Carl Minzner, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York and author of a new book on Mr. Xi’s authoritarianism.
CARL MINZNER
Xi cleared to rule indefinitely as China officially scraps term limits
The Washington Post 03-11-18
Carl Minzner, a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of “End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise,” said Sunday’s vote showed that the political norms that have governed Chinese politics for decades are coming undone.
TANYA K. HERNANDEZ
Sparer Forum @BrooklynLaw March 22, 2018: Low-Income Workers and Sexual Harassment
The Faculty Lounge 03-11-18
The annual forum of the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program will feature Tanya K. Hernández, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, a leading scholar in intersectional discrimination;…
KAREN J. GREENBERG
The Video Alibi
The Marshall Project 03-12-18
“One of the things with the international dimension of terrorism cases is that it’s very hard for a jury to understand the logistics of another country,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University’s School of Law.
MATTHEW A. GOLD
Why the European Union Wants to Tax Levi’s Jeans
GQ 03-13-18
“It’s purely political,” says Matt Gold, adjunct professor of Law at Fordham University and a former U.S. trade official under President Barack Obama.
MATTHEW A. GOLD
Challenges to Trump’s Tariffs Could Linger in Court (Audio)
Bloomberg 03-12-18
[Matthew A.] Gold, a professor at Fordham University Law School, discusses the legal challenges that could face President Trump’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
HAIM MOZES
2017 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award Winners
Crossroads Today 03-07-18
The three finalist papers awarded an Honorable Mention are:…“Evidence that Analyst Forecasts do not Reflect their Expectations” by Haim Mozes of Fordham University.
MARK CONRAD
Pac-12 proposes overhauling basketball
Daily Republic 03-13-18
“That’s really the elephant in the room,” said Mark Conrad, director of the sports business program at Fordham University.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
HAROLD TAKOOSHIAN
Beyond gun control: Exploring the underlying issues of school shootings
Aleteia 03-06-18
Harold Takooshian, professor of psychology at Fordham University, said there is a growing focus on an concept in psychology called, simply, dangerousness: the “ability to predict if an individual … will do something dangerous or horrible in the future.”
CHRISTINA GREER
‘Black Panther’ is a must-see
New York Amsterdam News 03-08-18
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is the 2018 NYU McSilver Institute Fellow and 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.
CHRISTINA GREER
De Blasio Embarks on a 5-Day Swing Through the South
The New York Times 03-09-18
Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham University, said that it has been apparent that the mayor’s “gaze has been national for quite some time.”
CHRISTINA GREER
Trump lawyers seek deal with Mueller to end probe.
MSNBC 03-09-18
Christina Greer is a guest on “All In with Chris Hayes”.
CHRISTINA GREER
For The First Time, 2020 Census Will Ask Black Americans About Their Exact Origins
NPR 03-13-18
Christina Greer warns if fewer black people participate in the 2020 census there could be an undercount and that could have effects long past 2020.
WILLIAM NATHAN BALLANTYNE
Philosophy Talk: How to Humbly Disagree
KALW 03-13-18
The Philosophy humbly welcome Nathan Ballantyne from Fordham University, author of Knowing Our Limits (forthcoming).
LANCE A. STRATE
Lance Strate to share thoughts on media ecology and its impact on the world
Penn State News 03-09-18
Lance [A.] Strate, a media ecologist from Fordham University, will speak at noon March 14 at Penn State York.
JULIO RAMOS
Residents of New York make a donation to Vieques organization created after María
Presencia 03-12-18
He indicated that recognizing that the organization privileges to carry out social, educational and scientific research purposes, in order to promote community, economic and social development in marginalized sectors, Julio Ramos, a retired professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and currently an adjunct professor at Fordham University, contacted her.
NICHOLAS TAMPIO
‘Common Core’ Review: Standards Put to the Test
The Wall Street Journal 03-11-18
Mr. [Nicholas] Tampio, a professor of political science at Fordham University, acknowledges that American education is not what it should be, but he is wary of a system of uniform, federally driven standards.
NICHOLAS TAMPIO
Common Core
99.1 FM Talk 03-12-18
Nicholas Tampio discusses the failures of Common Core.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Consumer price rise slows, stirring renewed Fed action speculation
Medill Reports Chicago 03-13-18
“You have insurance going up faster than the price of new cars going down,” Giacomo Santangelo, economics professor at Fordham University, said in an interview.
LINDSAY T. HOYT
Why Demonstrating Is Good for Kids
The New York Times 03-12-18
By tracking nearly 10,000 young people from a wide variety of ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds, researchers from Wake Forest School of Medicine, Fordham University and the University of Massachusetts measured the long-term implications of youth political and social engagement.
STUDENTS
The Pigeon Stalker
The New York Times 03-08-18
Ms. [Elizabeth] Carlen — a doctoral student at Fordham University whose dissertation explores how urban pigeons differ from one city to the next, or even by borough or neighborhood — has gathered nearly 400 pigeon samples, mostly from the five boroughs of New York City.
Rats! An Inside Look at NYC’s Most Infested Areas—and Its Vigorous Extermination Plan
The Observer 03-07-18
In November 2017, a Fordham University graduate student and his colleagues studied the DNA of rats in Manhattan and discovered that the rats that live uptown—north of 59th Street—and downtown—south of 14th Street—are genetically different and separated by Midtown.
ATHLETICS
Canadians cleaned up, earning NCAA All-Star awards for conference play
Yahoo! Canada Sports 03-07-18
Montreal native Joseph Chartouny has had a great career at Fordham University in his first two seasons.
College Update: Levy, Drummond appear headed to NCAA D-I basketball tourney
Ithaca Journal 03-08-18
Fordham University freshman [Paige] Rauch (Binghamton) was named the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week after leading the Rams softball team to a 3-1 record in the Diamond 9 Citrus Classic last week in Florida.
Tuesday morning one-liners
Yahoo! Sports 03-13-18
Fordham RB Chase Edmonds paid the Saints a visit.
ALUMNI
Pope Francis names three Monsignors in the Diocese of Arlington
The Arlington Catholic Herald 03-08-18
[Monsignor John C. Cregan] continued his education at Fordham University in New York City where he earned a degree in economics in 1961.
Women’s History NJ: Best-Selling Author Mary Higgins Clark – Best of NJ
Best of NJ 03-08-18
To set a good example for her children, [Mary Higgins Clark] enrolled at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 1971; she went on to graduate summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy eight years later.
A Holy Movement for A Hunger-Free World
Bread For the World Blog 03-09-18
[Derick D.] Dailey is a graduate of Westminster College, Yale University, and Fordham University School of Law.
A Look at the Candidates for Illinois Attorney General
U.S. News & World Report 03-10-18
Gary Grasso…Education: Bachelor’s degree, Georgetown University; law degree, Fordham University School of Law
Sean Aaron Carmon Explains Why Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Is So Important
Houstonia 03-12-18
That brush with onstage representation pushed [Sean Aaron] Carmon to transfer from New York University to a joint program offered by Alvin Ailey and Fordham University.
The 50 Most Powerful Latinas in Business
Fortune 03-14-18
[Anilú] Vazquez-Ubarri serves on the Board of Trustees for the Fordham Law Alumni Association.
OBITUARIES
Ted W. Verrill, 68, Of Southport, CT, businessman
Ted W. Verrill
Village Soup 03-07-18
[Ted W. Verrill] continued working for Coopers and Lybrand while attending Fordham University School of Law.
Mary Margaret Watson, 85, Of Sanibel, FL, director of religious education at the Church of St. Augustine
Mary M. Watson
Lake Placid News 03-09-18
She attended St. Bernard’s School in Saranac Lake, received a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Barry College in 1953 and received her masters degree in religious education from Fordham University.
John Oppong-Baah, 71, Of New City, NY, reverend
Month’s Mind Mass
Patch.com 03-09-18
From Fordham University, [John Oppong-Baah] obtained a M.A. in Counseling and Spiritual Direction in 2003).
Dora Fischer Reese, 90, Of West Hartford, CT, secretary for the Morning Music Club
Dora Fischer Reese, Former Grandview-on-Hudson Resident
Patch.com 03-11-18
After becoming a US citizen, Mrs. [Dora Fischer] Reese received her BA degree from Fordham University and her MA degree from The City University of NY.
