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
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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
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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
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Interested alums are invited to join in a shared Lenten reading of and prayerful reflection on the short, powerful musing titled, Poverty of Spirit, by Johannes Baptist Metz (inclusive language edition from Paulist Press). After this first meeting, we will meet every Tuesday through April 12. Questions for reflection will be sent out before the |
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Thinking about turning your hobby into a profession? Curious how Fordham grads can make a change mid-career? Tune in to an engaging workshop and panel run by Annette McLaughlin, director of the Career Center. She will guide attendees through a helpful exercise and moderate a conversation with a handful of Fordham alumni who have made
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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 |
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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
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As part of your racial justice journey, join the Ignatian Spirituality Center for a two-part, integrative experience and deepen your own resolve in becoming a spirit-led anti-racist. Session 1, on February 17, will introduce you to the book The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola by Patrick Saint-Jean, |
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The outdoors are "Caldering" your name! Take a Friday morning to experience a part of Fordham you may have never seen before by touring the Louis Calder Center, Fordham's biological field station in Armonk, New York. The two-hour tour led by Thomas J. Daniels, Ph.D., director of the Louis Calder Center, will cover the research |
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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
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Join Untapped New York’s Chief Experience Officer Justin Rivers, FCRH ’01, for a stroll around the secrets of one of New York City’s oldest public gathering spaces. Discover the story behind the monument to New York City’s first public Christmas tree. Uncover a historic tree in the park with a special history rooted in the |
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The Fordham University Choir, Women's Choir, and the Bronx Arts Ensemble present the annual Spring Concert featuring the famous "Requiem" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
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Campus Ministry is pleased to invite you to participate in Seeds of Transformation: Envisioning Hope for the Environment with Ignatian Imagination, an art showcase and reception celebrating the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius. Just as 500 years ago Ignatius was hit with a cannonball shattering both his leg and his understanding of |
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Campus Ministry is pleased to invite you to participate in Seeds of Transformation: Envisioning Hope for the Environment with Ignatian Imagination, an art showcase and reception celebrating the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius. Just as 500 years ago Ignatius was hit with a cannonball shattering both his leg and his understanding of
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Patti Heller, PAR, and John Heller, PAR; the Fordham Alumni Chapter of Chicago; and Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University, cordially invite you to a complimentary reception for alumni, parents, and friends. We hope you'll join us in wishing Father McShane a fond farewell before he steps down at the end of the
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Interested alums are invited to join in a shared Lenten reading of and prayerful reflection on the short, powerful musing titled, Poverty of Spirit, by Johannes Baptist Metz (inclusive language edition from Paulist Press). After this first meeting, we will meet every Tuesday through April 12. Questions for reflection will be sent out before the |
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Chronic pain and pain associated with serious or life-limiting illness impacts the lives of millions of people who engage with social workers across settings and diagnoses. Pain is a multidimensional construct affected by biological, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural factors. Health social workers have an enormous opportunity to influence the historical and current barriers to
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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
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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. |
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Join us for a screening of The Year of the Discovery by Luis López Carrasco. Spain, 1992. The Barcelona Olympic Games and the Seville Universal Expo, together with the celebration of the fifth centenary of the discovery of America that same year, presented Spain to the international community as a modern, developed, and dynamic country.
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Please join us for drinks, dinner, and awards at the world-renowned New York Athletic Club in Manhattan. Your registration includes an open bar, dinner, and a tax-deductible gift to Fordham Football. |
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The Fordham University Research Consortium on Disability (RCD) and Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education (GRE) invite you to join this multidisciplinary and international online conference on Spirituality and Disability. This symposium will provide a forum to discuss both religious and non-religious perspectives on the intersections of spirituality and disability in terms of lived |
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Join the Alumni Chapter of Long Island for a community service project of packing mobile school pantry bags. We will help provide food packages at the Long Island Cares Warehouse. This is a great service opportunity to help bring in the Easter season. Warehouse volunteers must be 18 or older and must show proof of
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Celebrate National Volunteer Month and the Ignatian Year by joining fellow Rams for a day of service! The Young Alumni Committee is partnering with Campus Ministry, student groups, and The Bronx is Blooming, a community-building nonprofit that helps develop youth leaders through park restoration. |
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Healthcare providers have notable discomfort engaging individuals around issues of the abuse, mistreatment, and exploitation of older adults. Although there are requirements for reporting elder abuse, healthcare provider discomfort and lack of experience contribute to it being the least reported type of domestic violence. Data suggest that one in 10 older adults in the United
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The Students and Alumni Challenging Anti-Black Racism Caucus is a student- and alumni-led group for anyone who does not self-identify as Black, and is a space for doing introspective work as students and alumni collectively challenge white supremacy. |
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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
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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.
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Interested alums are invited to join in a shared Lenten reading of and prayerful reflection on the short, powerful musing titled, Poverty of Spirit, by Johannes Baptist Metz (inclusive language edition from Paulist Press). After this first meeting, we will meet every Tuesday through April 12. Questions for reflection will be sent out before the |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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Interdisciplinary healthcare teams, including palliative care teams, are high-functioning models of effective inter/intradisciplinary work. Our process of collaborative information sharing can contribute to effective and emotionally sustainable care for patients and families. Social workers, nurse practitioners, physicians, and other integral interdisciplinary team members are united in their common goal of quality patient care, but the
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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 |
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Sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) Activism Subcommittee, this event will be a discussion of the A.5109/S.1969 bill, which addresses employing mental health professionals in NYS public schools (i.e., school psychologists and social workers). We will be joined by New York State District 34 assembly member Jessica Gonzàlez-Rojas and her chief of
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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, |
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We invite you to join us at a celebration for Fordham Rowing, dedicating a new shell to Olympic Bronze Medalist, Fiona Murtagh, FCRH '16, who competed for Ireland in the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Agenda 11 a.m.: Reception at Harlem Yacht Club 11:30 a.m.: Boat Christening 12 p.m.: Inaugural Row
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Fordham Club's annual Bronx Celebration Day will be on April 23 from 12 to 4 p.m. at Fordham Plaza. It will feature a mixture of local Bronx musicians, poets, dance groups, and Fordham student performers, as well as local vendors and community health and aid organizations. This year we are excited to be partnering with |
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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
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This mini-conference will highlight the research completed by our very own master's in social work research assistants during the academic year. Please join us in celebrating their accomplishments and in learning about the exciting and innovative research being done by faculty and students here at the Graduate School of Social Service.
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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 |
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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
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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. |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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. |
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Join the Alumni Chapter of Chicago for Give Back Day, hosted by the Big Shoulders Fund Auxiliary Board. Volunteers will help clean, organize, and more at Holy Angels School. We hope you will join us for a few hours to make a difference in our city! There are 10 spots available. RSVP by April 29.
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Please join us to honor legendary Fordham Baseball coach Dan "Skip" Gallagher. We will be celebrating both his historic career and the program's alumni prior to the Rams game against the St. Joseph's Hawks. Your registration will include food, light refreshments, and a tax-deductible gift to Fordham Baseball. Agenda 11:30 a.m. | Alumni Reception |
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Howdy, Austin Rams! Whether you're new to Austin or an old timer, come join the Alumni Chapter of Austin at the scenic Live Oak Taproom & Biergarten for a beer under the trees. We plan to discuss upcoming volunteering opportunities and chapter events while we enjoy a Saturday afternoon among Austin Rams. Families and friends |
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Please join the Alumni Chapter of Staten Island for our annual gathering in celebration of men and women for others. Bishop Peter Byrne, FCRH ’73, will be honored for his service to New York. This event costs $45 per person and includes a deluxe brunch buffet, beer and wine, soft drinks, coffee, and tea. Cocktails
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Come join the Fordham Medieval Dramatists for a free outdoor performance of The Play of the Weather! The Play of the Weather is an early Tudor great hall play in which the Roman god Jupiter descends to Earth to solicit the views of English men and women on the ideal state of the weather. He |