CLIPS OF THE WEEK
OLIVIER SYLVAIN
How a Stabbing in Israel Echoes Through the Fight Over Online Speech
The New York Times 03-24-21
“Amplification and automated decision-making systems are creating opportunities for connection that are otherwise not possible,” said Olivier Sylvain, a professor of law at Fordham University, who has made the argument in the context of civil rights.
Fordham University teams up with Cardinal Hayes HS to help attract donors
News 12 The Bronx 03-26-21
When Cardinal Hayes High School wanted to get a new message out to possible donors passing by its campus, it enlisted the help of some of the brightest minds at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.
CHRIS RHOMBERG
Some Amazon Drivers Have Had Enough. Can They Unionize?
Wired 03-19-21
Instead of pressuring the relatively powerless subcontractors, organizers aimed their sights at the master contractor—in that case, the building owners, says Chris Rhomberg, a Fordham University sociology professor who researches labor strikes.
ADMINISTRATORS
ANTHONY DAVIDSON
Fordham Real Estate Institute Launches Master of Science in Construction Management
Accesswire 03-23-21
“There are more opportunities than ever for those wishing to pursue a career in construction management, and we are confident that our expanded offerings to support this dynamic field will help our students stand apart from their peers and further the industry,” said Dr. Anthony R. Davidson, dean of Fordham’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Fordham University teams up with Cardinal Hayes HS to help attract donors
News 12 The Bronx 03-26-21
When Cardinal Hayes High School wanted to get a new message out to possible donors passing by its campus, it enlisted the help of some of the brightest minds at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
LAWRENCE BRENNAN
‘Beached whale’ ship could block Suez Canal for weeks
Al Jazeera 03-25-21
Lawrence Brennan, a professor of admiralty and international maritime law at Fordham University, said physical damage to the ship could lead to a long-term blockage of the canal.
JURIJ TOPLAK
‘Extreme and illegal’ European court accused of concealing documents in brazen cover-up
Express UK 03-24-21
Mr Toplak, who is also a visiting Professor at Fordham Law School, New York, said: “After allowing access to its single-judge decisions for decades and after sending applications out for several months, the Court’s termination of access in March 2021 due to the pandemic seems unjustified.
OLIVIER SYLVAIN
How a Stabbing in Israel Echoes Through the Fight Over Online Speech
The New York Times 03-24-21
“Amplification and automated decision-making systems are creating opportunities for connection that are otherwise not possible,” said Olivier Sylvain, a professor of law at Fordham University, who has made the argument in the context of civil rights.
DONNA REDEL
What Are NFTs, & Why Are They Suddenly Everywhere?
Refinery29 03-23-21
“The underlying thing that you’re buying is code that manifests as images,” Donna Redel, a professor of crypto-digital assets at Fordham Law School, told NPR.
KAREN GREENBERG
The DOJ is considering rare sedition charges for Capitol rioters, but it could backfire
Insider 03-22-21
Justice Department leaders were infuriated that Sherwin talked about sedition charges in his “60 Minutes” interview, as Insider’s Ryan Barber reported. It was “highly inappropriate” for someone in his position to speculate about charges before they’re actually brought, according to Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law.
JOHN PFAFF
Biden’s Anti-Private Prison Policy Puts Optics Over Outcomes
Inside Sources 03-22-21
“This is not about shrinking the footprint of the federal prison system; it’s just about transferring people to public facilities,” Fordham University law professor John Pfaff told NBC.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
‘Focus on Structural Power’: Lawmakers Told to Press Big Tech CEOs on ‘Toxic’ Business Model
Common Dreams 03-25-21
Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham University, expressed hope that House panelists will ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “how much money the company made off of QAnon,” the far-right conspiracy theory whose adherents played a considerable role in the violent siege of the Capitol earlier this year.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Biden Antitrust Pick Is an Expert on How to Break Up Big Tech
VICE 03-24-21
“She’s not just brilliant and kind and incisive, she works unbelievably hard and listens harder,” Fordham law School professor Zephyr Teachout wrote on Twitter.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Zephyr Teachout on Cuomo and the Erosion of Trust
Spectrum News 03-22-21
During an interview on Capital Tonight, former gubernatorial candidate and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout argued that Governor Andrew Cuomo has lost the trust of legislators and the public and it’s time for him to resign.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Coalition Forms to Challenge ‘Predatory’ Surveillance Advertising by Big Tech
Common Dreams 03-22-21
As Zephyr Teachout, associate professor of law at Fordham Law School, put it: “Facebook and Google possess enormous monopoly power, combined with the surveillance regimes of authoritarian states and the addiction business model of cigarettes. Congress has broad authority to regulate their business models and should use it to ban them from engaging in surveillance advertising.”
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
US privacy, consumer, competition and civil rights groups urge ban on ‘surveillance advertising’
TechCrunch 03-22-21
Commenting in a statement on the coalition’s website, Zephyr Teachout, an associate professor of law at Fordham Law School, said: “Facebook and Google possess enormous monopoly power, combined with the surveillance regimes of authoritarian states and the addiction business model of cigarettes. Congress has broad authority to regulate their business models and should use it to ban them from engaging in surveillance advertising.”
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Can an Oversight Board Created by Facebook Actually Fix the Company’s Failings?
Mother Jones 03-19-21
Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor and Big Tech critic, used a succinct analogy to make a similar argument.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY
ELIZABETH GIL
Study ranks Louisiana as 3rd least educated state
Louisiana Weekly 03-22-21
Elizabeth Gil, assistant professor in educational leadership, administration and policy at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education, said in the report that students’ experiences in school from K-12 are foundational.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY
ANNE WILLIAMSON-ISOM
New York City’s Mistaken Child Welfare Priorities
The Imprint 03-23-21
Anne Williams-Isom is the James R. Dumpson chair in Child Welfare Studies at Fordham University, and previously served as CEO of the anti-poverty organization Harlem Children’s Zone and as deputy commissioner at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services.
MARCIANA POPESCU
Human Rights of Forced Migrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity for Mobilization and Solidarity
Springer 03-19-21
Graduate School of Service, Fordham University, New York, USA
Marciana Popescu
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
TIFFANY YIP
How some Asian-American parents are broaching discussions of recent racist attacks with their kids
Yahoo! Life 03-25-21
For some kids, “the sudden spike in crimes and then just the sheer violence of it” can be “confusing,” Tiffany Yip, PhD, a professor of psychology at Fordham University, tells Yahoo Life.
MAGDA TETER
Changing of the guard at NY’s JCRC • Bret Stephens edits Jewish journal • Vaccinated snowbirds flock to Florida
The New York Jewish Week 03-25-21
Leo Baeck Institute presents Magda Teter (Fordham University), whose new history of the “blood libel” tracks its origins and spread, in conversation with fellow historian David N. Myers (UCLA) to discuss the story of Simon of Trent as a case study in how a new medium – print – accelerated the spread of of conspiracy theories.
CHRISTINA GREER
Africana Center hosts Black Womyn’s Empowerment Conference
The Tufts Daily 03-25-21
Another one of the panels was called “#SayHerName,” which included Dr. Kerri Greenidge, an associate professor of race, colonialism and diaspora at Tufts, Dr. Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science and American studies at Fordham University and Hannah Drake, an author, poet and activist, according to Asumda.
CHRISTINA GREER
We must remember Jackson, Mississippi
New York Amsterdam News 03-25-21
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 podcast FAQ-NYC and also What’s in It for Us podcast.
CHRISTINA GREER
Women Take the Lead in City Council Fundraising Race After Years of Gender Imbalance
The City 03-24-21
Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University, said more women running for and winning Council seats would create a pipeline of politicians for state and federal legislative offices.
CHRISTINE FIRER HINZE
Catholic teaching demands ‘radical sufficiency’ for society, academic says
Crux Now 03-23-21
Christine Firer Hinze is Professor of Theological and Social Ethics, Chair of the Department of Theology, former Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University, and president-elect of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
MILAN ZELENY
“Metamorphosis” is needed in entrepreneurship and management, pioneering economist says
Eureka Alert 03-22-21
Milan Zeleny, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Management Systems, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA, and world-recognized authority on decision making, productivity, knowledge management, and more recently the corporation as a living organism, says that “COVID-19 is rapidly changing from a cause to one of the symptoms of an increasingly unhinged world.”
GABE BROWN
Is that a Faberge egg or a … beet? Artist-imagined Hudson Valley seed packets inspire gardeners
Times Union 03-22-21
Brown, who teaches art at Fordham University, says the echinacea she planted has taken over her garden.
FRAN BLUMBERG
STDs are Rising Among Teens. Can Video Games Help?
Undark 03-23-21
Fran Blumberg, a psychology professor at Fordham University, worries that the games could be used by age groups they weren’t developed for and advises against relying on games as substitutes for traditional person-to-person learning.
TYLER STOVALL
Liberty’s Discontents
The Nation 03-23-21
Tyler Stovall is a professor of history and the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University.
DEAN MCKAY
As pandemic stress lingers, religious organizations can help people manage
National Catholic Reporter 03-22-21
Dean McKay, a professor of psychology at Fordham University, said research he’s done with Canadian colleagues has identified five major areas of COVID-19-related stress.
BILL BAKER
Greenwich producer takes viewers on a journey of aging in PBS documentary
Register Citizen 03-22-21
Now a professor at Fordham University and the honorary distinguished professor of media & entertainment at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Baker hasn’t slowed down much.
BILL BAKER
A Life Experience That Inspired A Reality Documentary
Bridgeport Diocese 03-21-21
This experience began a journey into the world of old age for Baker, who is director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy & Education at Fordham University and former president of WNET-Thirteen in New York.
BILL BAKER
The Dish: Greenwich native celebrates 74th birthday with an Oscar nomination
Greenwich Time 03-20-21
Baker is director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy & Education at Fordham University and president emeritus of WNET-13 in New York.
BILL BAKER
To fight ‘fake news,’ the US media must push for Big Tech to pay for journalism
Business Insider 03-20-21
Dr. Bill Baker is a journalist-in-residence at Fordham University and the president emeritus of WNET-Thirteen, New York’s public television station.
JAMES FISHER
The Religious History of March Madness
Patheos 03-20-21
“He sold kids and families on the fact that: ‘Hey, I’m a white Irish Catholic,’” Fordham professor James Fisher explained, “‘I didn’t grow up in the neighborhood, but I grew up next door to it.’”
SIXIAN JIN & KEI KOBAYASHI
Strong approximation of time-changed stochastic differential equations involving drifts with random and non-random integrators
Springer 03-19-21
Department of Mathematics, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, USA
Sixian Jin & Kei Kobayashi
CHRIS RHOMBERG
Some Amazon Drivers Have Had Enough. Can They Unionize?
Wired 03-19-21
Instead of pressuring the relatively powerless subcontractors, organizers aimed their sights at the master contractor—in that case, the building owners, says Chris Rhomberg, a Fordham University sociology professor who researches labor strikes.
ATHLETICS
NCAA Tournaments bring gender inequity to light
New York Amsterdam News 03-25-21
In other postseason action, Fordham University exited the WNIT in the second round.
US-bound Cork City stars highlight the talent coming through the ranks
Echo Live 03-23-21
Goalkeeper Maria O’Sullivan moved to Fordham University in New York in January while her potential replacement, Leah Hayes Coen, has committed to joining High Point University in North Carolina at the beginning of 2022.
Game Clock Ticking on Resuming Local Catholic High School Sports
The Tablet 03-19-21
Senior Alexandra Tarul, who plays on the girls’ varsity basketball team for St. John’s Prep, has already committed to play for Fordham University next year.
The Iona Plan: Leave It To Pitino
New York Sportsday 03-19-21
The two home-and-home battles were intense and, at times, nasty as two schools fought for position in the initial year of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Iona and Fordham were in the MAAC with the Manhattan College Jaspers.
ALUMNI
Kirkland Welcomes Tax and Renewables Partner Michael Masri
Kirkland & Ellis 03-25-21
Mr. [Michael] Masri earned a law degree from Fordham University School of Law and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business and accounting, respectively, from City University of New York’s Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business.
Riemer & Braunstein Announces Promotions
ABL Advisor 03-25-21
[Anthony B. Stumbo] graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2000.
7 tips for veterans who want to work in the media and entertainment industry
Military Times 03-24-21
[Melanie Corinne] has a degree in English, creative writing from Fordham University and currently works in film and television with ViacomCBS.
HGGC Expands Team After Fast Start to 2021 Achieves $30 Billion in Historical Transaction Value
PR Newswire 03-24-21
[Naznin Jahan] earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from Fordham University.
A debut novel about migration, family and survival is everything ‘American Dirt’ wasn’t
Los Angeles Times 03-23-21
[Gabriela Garcia] moved back to New York for her undergraduate degree at Fordham University, lived in Lafayette, Ind., while earning her master’s and moved to Oakland in 2019 for the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University.
I believed the charter school myth — until I learned about the reality and who was behind it
AlterNet 03-22-21
[Florina Rodov] holds an MS in education from Fordham University.
DelphX Names Keith Styrcula to Recently-Formed Strategic Advisory Committee
Yahoo! Finance 03-22-21
A graduate of Fordham Law School, [Keith Styrcula] has pioneered numerous innovations in the ETF, structured notes and indexing businesses.
Darrow Associates’ Peter Seltzberg to Lead Small Cap Investment Panel at Investor Summit Conference
Globe Newswire 03-22-21
[Peter Seltzberg] earned a BBA at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and an MBA from Fordham University while working full-time, both with Finance concentrations, and has completed coursework at Dale Carnegie.
Intentional communities connect sisters with those who seek spiritual growth
Global Sisters Report 03-23-21
Being influenced by the Dominican sisters who ministered as social workers, [Sydney] Boyer returned to college, earning a graduate degree in social work from Fordham University last May.
THE MAN WHO COULD SEE THE FUTURE: REMEMBERING THE LATE TOM KONCHALSKI
Slam 03-19-21
[Tom Konchalski] wrote for the Molloy student newspaper and then attended Fordham University in the Bronx, graduating magna cum laude with degrees in political science and philosophy.
New firm office adds another partner
Nashville Post 03-19-21
[Matthew Miller] attended Fordham University School of Law.
March Madness: Jersey guy Spero Dedes has the TV call for Rutgers vs. Clemson
Asbury Park Press 03-19-21
[Spero Dedes] attended Fordham University and joined that school’s pipeline of notable broadcasters, including Mike Breen, Michael Kay, Bob Papa and Chris Carrino.
OBITUARIES
Marianne Maloney Dowling, 79, Of Scarsdale, NY, Lawyer
Marianne Maloney Dowling
Scarsdale Inquirer 03-19-21
An honors graduate of Annunciation School, The Ursuline School, Manhattanville College and Fordham University School of Law, she was the only woman in her graduating class and was invited to join the law review, which she politely declined because, “It didn’t sound like much fun,” according to her family.
Alonso Villegas, 74, Of West Haven, CT, Professor
Obituary: Alonso Villegas, 74 of West Haven
Patch 03-19-21
He graduated from Marco Fidel Suarez High School in Medellin, and continued on to receive his bachelor’s degree from Boston College, and graduate degrees from Colorado State University, The University of Evansville, and Fordham University.
