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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Frank Hsu, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science and director of the Laboratory for Informatics and Data Mining, co-edited a four-article feature in Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, this spring. Evans Owusu, a PhD student in computer and information science, was the lead author of one of the articles: “Robust Intrusion Detection With Combinatorial Fusion and Generative Artificial Intelligence.” Its co-authors were Mohamed Rahouti, PhD, assistant professor of computer and information science at Fordham, and Mariyam Mapkar, a 2024 graduate of the master’s program in computer and information science.
Jeff Ng, PsyD, STUDENT AFFAIRS, director of counseling and psychological services, was elected to the board of directors for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). Ng was an active member of the organization for years and elected from a nationwide pool of nominees.
Kirsten Swinth, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of history, served on a panel titled “The Politics of Care” with Hillary Rodham Clinton at Oxford University in late November. The panel demonstrated the importance of putting caregiving of all types at the center of political debate. (Read more about the event here.)
Swinth’s research collaborator is Sarah Knott, PhD, a historian of women, gender, and reproduction and a professorial fellow at St John’s College, who has held the Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at Oxford since August 2024. Swinth’s collaboration with Knott grew out of the 2022 Capitalism and Carework Conference funded by Fordham’s history department through the O’Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism.
