Survey after survey tells us that Americans disagree more than ever before, viscerally and sometimes even violently. At a moment when issues like LGBTQ+ rights, religious freedom, racial and economic justice, and even the rules of democracy seem to be up for debate, can Fordham’s Jesuit tradition offer wisdom? Join Patrick Hornbeck, interim dean of
Join us for a lecture and concert featuring the Fordham Jazz Quartet. Iconic jazz artist Billie Holiday received her only formal vocal instruction at the Catholic convent where she was sent to live as a child. She received the sacraments, prayed the rosary, and maintained a friendship with Paulist “jazz priest” Norman O’Connor until the
What does a career in cybersecurity look like? How does the world respond to cyber threats? Do individuals have real power to affect their digital privacy? Join Anthony Ferrante, FCRH ’01, senior managing director and global head of cybersecurity at FTI Consulting, and Charlie Baisley, FCRH ’94, LAW ’87, senior director of business development at
Need help getting started on a paper? Want to strengthen your claim? Thinking through the structure of your argument? The Writing Center is here to help! Attend our workshop on the topics of previsioning and outlining to help you get started on your finals research papers! Each workshop is hosted by tutors from the Rose
Michael Wasiura, GSAS '11, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine from 2006 to 2008, is a graduate of Fordham's International Political Economy and Development (IPED) program. His work has appeared in Novaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, The Baffler, and n+1, as well as at the Institute of Modern Russia and on syllabi at
Save the date for Fordham Foundry's 6th Annual Pitch Challenge! The Foundry’s Annual Pitch Challenge opens the doors to everyone for their chance to pitch their venture idea and earn funding. It is open to students and alumni of all of Fordham University’s nine schools and colleges, including those from liberal arts backgrounds. Additional details
The impending doom of climate change has dominated global discourse in recent times. It revolves around finding a sustainable solution to the equitable dispensation of scarce natural resources. The injustice gap is visible in current flawed social and political system trends that celebrate division instead of togetherness. COVID-19 exacerbated the situation and painted a clearer
Join us for a Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) academic conference call with Manjari Chatterjee Miller, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the CFR. She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies program at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford.
What does it take to be a leader in the 21st century? Who are leaders that you admire and wish to emulate? The word "leadership" doesn’t always mean the same thing across languages, cultures, and communities. Regardless, we might all agree that leadership is a multidimensional set of actions and behaviors. How might you map
Join us for a lunchtime talk with Stephen Foerster, co-author of In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest, as he discusses how the greatest thinkers in finance changed the field and how their wisdom can help investors today. Is there an
Need help getting started on a paper? Want to strengthen your claim? Thinking through the structure of your argument? The Writing Center is here to help! Attend our workshop on writing effective claims and topic sentences. Each workshop is hosted by tutors from the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center Writing Centers. Advance registration is required.
Join us for a Council of Foreign Relations academic conference call with Anne C. Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration under President Barack Obama. Previously, she was vice president of government relations and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee. In addition to the State Department, she served at Peace Corps
Elizabeth Thrall, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Fordham University, will present “Overcoming Obstacles: Visualizing How the DNA Replication Machinery Bypasses DNA Damage.” Across all domains of life, DNA is replicated by a multi-protein complex known as the replisome. At the center of the replisome are DNA polymerases, the enzymes that synthesize
The wholesale trade and manufacturing of diamonds, which once supported the vast majority of Antwerp’s Jewish male workforce, has steadily relocated to less-regulated zones in the “midstream pipeline” of the diamond supply chain. This lecture draws upon extended ethnographic fieldwork that Sam Shuman conducted with diamond traders, brokers, manufacturers, and artisans from 2017 to 2019
Join us for a lecture presented by Andrew Prevot, Boston College. Theologians have discerned the presence of the crucified Christ in oppressed peoples. They have wrestled with challenging questions about how to understand such crucified groups not only as victims but also as Christologically empowered agents of salvation. Drawing on the works of Ignacio Ellacuría
Jessica Esquivel, Ph.D., associate scientist within the particle physics division in Fermilab's Muon Department, will present, "Can Wobbling Muons Probe Physics Beyond the Standard Model? Fermilab’s Muon g-2 Run 1 Results." On April 7, 2021, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment announced its first results of the precision measurement of the anomalous muon magnetic moment based on
The 20th century was marked by mass violence, with the Shoah and World War II dominating historical memory. But decades before the Shoah, other instances of mass violence took place with tens—if not hundreds—of thousands of Jews massacred in eastern Europe. Scholars and readers of Jewish history know and remember the pogroms of 1881, the
This panel features five distinguished speakers addressing the core questions of the Taking Responsibility project. They will help us ask how to confront and handle the history of clerical sexual abuse and its many legacies in the present. This event brings together one of the foremost researchers on clerical sexual abuse in the United States,
Every year, Fordham recognizes faculty research at Research Day, an in-person event at Fordham Law. This year, the keynote speaker will be Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. An awards ceremony will honor the following five outstanding Fordham faculty for their research: Distinguished Research Award in
Join us for a discussion on the impacts of environmental and climate change sponsored by the MOSAIC affinity chapter and the Office of Alumni Relations. The conversation will surround how these environmental issues disproportionately affect certain populations due to income, race, geography, or economy. These effects can have severe outcomes ranging from interrupted telecommunications and
Join us for a panel discussion on Song Searcher, a documentary about Moyshe Beregovsky, a musician and scholar, who traveled across Ukraine during the most dramatic years of Soviet history with a phonograph to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jews. His work began in the 1920s and ended with his arrest and
Need help getting started on a paper? Want to strengthen your claim? Thinking through the structure of your argument? The Writing Center is here to help! Attend our workshop about how to enter an academic conversation and respond to sources. Each workshop is hosted by tutors from the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center Writing Centers.
Join us for a lunchtime talk with renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, as he discusses his revelatory financial investigation into how President Abraham Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history. Lincoln inherited
The Department of Modern Language and Literature's is holding its final roundtable of the year: Linguistic Terrorism. Speakers Laada Bilaniuk, Ph.D., (she/her) is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She will discuss how the Ukrainian-Russian mixed language, Surzhyk, came into being, who speaks this language, and its place in
English department lecturer Shubhangi Mehrotra will model strategies for making syllabi aesthetically pleasing, inclusive, and accessible. During the session, Mehrotra will provide an overview of the many benefits of accessible syllabi as well as present best practices and resources for designing accessible syllabi. Participants will also take part in breakout sessions in which they reflect
Come hear from Viviana Martinez in Career Services about how to make the most of your summer internship and how to best position yourself to network for your future career.
