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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Fordham University, UNIVERSITY MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS, took home multiple honors in May. At the Telly Awards, which recognizes excellence in video and television across all screens, Fordham won a Silver Telly and Bronze Telly in the Creator-Pop Culture and Commentary category for its social media collaboration with The Tonight Show and The Weeknd and for its Ramses Home Alone: Lost in New York Instagram Reel, respectively. Fordham also won three gold and two silver Communicator Awards, honoring excellence, effectiveness, and innovation across all areas of communication, for its Jimmy Fallon and The Weeknd collab on Instagram, The Fordham Pizza Shop pop-up at the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) conference, and the For What Matters marketing campaign. Fordham also won a Silver Ex at the 24th annual Ex Awards, which honors the best experiential marketing, for the pizza shop in the Best Event Activation on a Budget category.
Dawn Lerman, PhD, GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, professor of marketing, was appointed vice chair of the ANA Educational Foundation (AEF) board of directors in March. She is the first academic to serve on the board’s executive committee, and has been a member of the board for the last 15 years. She also serves as the AEF’s professor-in-residence.
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate director, Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, published her 12th book of poems, The View from Childhood: New and Selected Poems, on May 8. She was interviewed on The Habit podcast about her poetry collection, which publisher Paraclet Press described as “a love letter to the lives, loves, losses, and other mysteries that lay at the heart of our history.”
Akane Zusho, PhD, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, professor and chair of the Division of Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy, received a $650,000 William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant in partnership with Graham. The project, “Advancing Equitable Workforce Pathways Through Institutional Change and Research-Practice Partnership,” will support the development of trauma-informed, career-connected pathways for Bronx youth impacted by the child welfare system. The grant was made possible through the collaborative support of the Graduate School of Education, the Division of External Affairs, the Center for Community Engaged Learning, and the Bronx Research Institute for Community Solutions (BRICS).
