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James A. Ciaccio, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of chemistry, published the article, “From CBD to CBN: A Small-Scale, Project-Like Undergraduate Organic Lab Experiment Integrating Chemical Synthesis, TLC Co-spotting, Dry Column Vacuum Chromatography, and Antibacterial Testing,” on March 26 in the Journal of Chemical Education. Leila Scaramella ’25, Laboratory Manager Pooja Grewal, and Luke O’Neal ’24 are co-authors of this article that describes the first instructional lab experiment to engage students in plant cannabinoid chemistry.
C. Colt Anderson, PhD, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, professor of educational administration and leadership, published a book with his former graduate assistant, J. D. Long Garcia, on April 7 titled Clericalism: The Institutional Dimension of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis (Paulist Press, 2026). The book confronts the failure to enact lasting reform in the wake of the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis. Research for it was funded by Fordham’s Taking Responsibility Project.
Sophie Mitra, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of economics, co-authored an article in the March issue of Social Indicators Research titled “Has the Beyond-GDP agenda made its way into policy discourses? Evidence from the legislative branch in Canada and the United States” with economists J. Daniel Aromí and Ann Mitchell at Universidad Católica Argentina. The article assesses the extent to which the Beyond-GDP agenda—which promotes the use of alternative indicators and systems to measure societal progress—has made its way into legislative debates in the U.S. and Canada. The results show that its usage is more frequent in Canada than the U.S. The low frequency of Beyond-GDP discourses found in the U.S. suggests that the call for a renewed commitment to the Beyond-GDP agenda by the United Nations is warranted, the paper said.
