Fordham University’s faculty and staff remain leaders in their fields, innovating and making meaningful contributions across disciplines. Their dedication and expertise are regularly recognized with prestigious honors and awards. Take a look at the latest achievements from our community below.
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Juntao Chen, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of computer and information science, received a $600,000 U.S. National Science Foundation Award with a colleague at Stevens Institute of Technology, to develop secure wireless cyberinfrastructure for trusted collaborative research. The project will design next-generation network architectures that enable secure, policy-driven data exchange across research institutions. The grant will also support graduate student researchers at Fordham.
Dawn Lerman, Ph.D., GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, professor of marketing and special advisor to the provost on strategy, led a roundtable discussion with senior retail executives at the Millenium Alliance’s Digital Customer Engagement Assembly in Dallas Oct. 8 – 9.
Lerman, a thought leader for the Millennium Alliance, also moderated the keynote panel discussion on “The Retail Revolution: Shaping Tomorrow’s Customer Experience Today.”
Catherine Powell, FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL, Eunice Hunton Carter Distinguished Research Scholar and professor of law, was selected as one of two Crane Fellows in Law and Public Policy at Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) for the 2025-2026 academic year. The program is a successor to the Program in Law and Public Affairs Program fellowship. Powell is also spending the year as a (mostly remote) Scholar-in-Residence at the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.
