CLIPS OF THE WEEK
For novelist Peter Quinn, conversion means persistence
U.S. Catholic 05-12-2022
Quinn’s interest in chronicling the Irish American experience through fiction was fostered by his own upbringing and later by his studies at Fordham University in the early 1970s, though he didn’t publish his first novel, Banished Children of Eve (Fordham University Press), until 1994. In the meantime, he toiled as a speechwriter for former New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo as well as the Time Warner communications organization.
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Fordham University
Bronx Times 05-06-2022 (page 60)
On April 27, Fordham University honored outgoing President Father Joseph M. McShane, SJ, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Joseph M. McShane, S.J., Campus Center.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Fordham University
Bronx Times 05-06-2022 (page 60)
On April 27, Fordham University honored outgoing President Father Joseph M. McShane, SJ, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Joseph M. McShane, S.J., Campus Center.
Local universities set vaccination requirements for graduation guests
Yahoo News via CBS New York 05-11-2022
This spring, local colleges are returning to in-person pomp and circumstance. Big crowds will celebrate happy graduates, but not everybody is invited. CBS2’s Tony Aiello spoke with one mom flustered by the mandatory vaccine policy at Fordham University.
SCHOOL OF LAW ADMINISTRATORS
BERNICE GRANT
AI Contracts Provider Evisort Raises $100 Million To Reimagine Legal Docs
Forbes 05-11-2022
However, Evisort’s Series C round is especially notable because innovation and venture backing in the legal space is rare. Bernice Grant, senior director of Fordham School of Law’s Entrepreneurial Law Program, views Evisort’s journey as catalyzing legal startups and freeing lawyers from menial labor. “
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
GMAT vs GRE: here’s what MBA applicants need to know heading into 2023
Fortune Education 05-10-2022
But test-optional policies aren’t just a reaction to complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many schools plan to maintain their new policies, including top-ranked schools like the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business, and Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business see a median starting salary of $110,000 a year or more for 2021 graduates.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
JOHN PFAFF
Progressive prosecutors have unintended impact on crime
Carolina Journal 05-10-2022
Spurred on by the Ferguson case, other police shootings, and Fordham University law professor John Pfaff’s anti-incarceration book “Locked In,” would-be reformers started a movement “that has just expanded in scope to an enormous degree,” Mangual said. “The term ‘progressive prosecutor’ was probably unfamiliar to most Americans just 10 years ago,” he said. “Now we’re at a point in which nearly 50 million Americans are living in jurisdictions with self-described progressive prosecutors.”
DEBORAH DENNO
Clarence Dixon, Arizona’s first execution in 8 years, is dead
12News.com 05-11-2022
“The first lethal injection execution occurred in 1982, and that injection was botched,” said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University professor who is an expert on execution methods.
DEBORAH DENNO
Death row inmates’ last meals: What to know about the history behind our strange fascination of these requests
FOX13 Seattle 05-12-2022
In the same article, a capital punishment law expert who taught at Fordham University School of law said the ritual of the last meal captures the public’s attention, because “the activity of sitting down for dinner is one Americans with no experience of prison life can relate to.”
“It brings us back to the fact that this is a human being who will not be having any more dinners like we do,” said Deborah Denno, in the BBC News article.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
How about the Napolean treatment for Putin?
Kitsap Sun via MSN 05-06-2022
The second guy reported to be close to Putin is Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to an April 21 article in The New Yorker by Paul Elie, Kirill “…gave an incendiary homily likening Russia’s invasion to a culture war against the West.” Elie further notes that George Demacopoulos, a theologian at Fordham, writes that Putin, “attacked Ukraine and then invoked Christianity to justify the invasion as an act of holy war…”
PAUL LEVINSON
Elon Musk’s vision for Twitter and the First Amendment: ‘What should be done?’
Yahoo Finance 05-06-2022
Fordham University professor Paul Levinson explained television and radio networks that broadcast on public airwaves have authority to choose whose content and what content is broadcast. However, they’re prohibited from doing so in a way that violates the First Amendment.
CHRISTINA GREER
What Happens if SCOTUS Overturns Roe v. Wade?
The Jonathan Capehart Show on MSNBC 05-08-2022
CAPEHART: “Professor Greer… all I could think was, ‘Child, please?‘Are you serious?’
GREER: “I read and reread that, Jonathan, several times, largely because Clarence Thomas is responsible for aiding and abetting the erosion of our institutions and our democracy, to say nothing of his wife…”
GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
Orthodox Christian churches are drawing in far-right American converts
NPR 05-09-2022
“I do actually think it’s growing,” said George Demacopoulos, a professor and the director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. “I don’t think these people are necessarily changing the minds of people already in the church, but I do think they are bringing others culturally or politically like them into the church.”
CHRISTINA GREER
We can always count on the audacity: Calling out the 47 senators who voted against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Grio 05-09-2022
Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, a political analyst at thegrio.com, and the author of “Black Ethnics”. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, and campaigns and elections.
MARK MATTSON
New Grateful Dead documentary from Bay Area director explores what it really means to be a Deadhead
SFGate 05-10-2022
Those anecdotal affirmations are finding support by a growing body of academic work. Deadhead resilience is a topic that psychiatrist Adam D. Brown, a professor at the New School, is studying. His work builds on Fordham University psychologist Mark Mattson’s studies of Deadhead memory, which demonstrated its affirmative power.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
New numbers on inflation not shocking to experts
KCBS Radio 05-11-2022
The consumer price index is up 8.3%, remaining at a four-decade high. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Holly Quan and Jason Brooks spoke with Giacomo Santangelo, an economics professor at Fordham University.
CHRISTINA GREER
Celebrating Christopher Wallace a.k.a. Biggie!
New York Amsterdam News 05-12-2022
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC
ELIZABETH STONE
How College Clubs Can Lead to Careers
US World and News Report 05-12-2022
Elizabeth Stone, an English professor at Fordham University, has written about higher education for publications including the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Insidehighered.com.
STUDENTS
Research shows how people perceive gender through speech
NYU 05-10-2022
In addition to Houle, the study’s authors include Deanna Goudelias, a research assistant at APPL and master’s student at NYU Steinhardt; Mackenzie P. Lerario, a board-certified neurologist and master’s student at Fordham University; and Susannah V. Levi, an associate professor at NYU Steinhardt.
ALUMNI
Strong is the New Black: The Joys of Weight Training and Powerlifting
Black Girl Nerds 05-10-2022
BGN spoke with two Black women who love to lift as much as I do, Alicia Archer, (BFA in dance from Fordham University/The Ailey School, Equinox, NYC group fitness instructor) and Phoebe Gavin (career coach) about the joy that weight training and powerlifting has brought to their lives.
For novelist Peter Quinn, conversion means persistence
U.S. Catholic 05-12-2022
Quinn’s interest in chronicling the Irish American experience through fiction was fostered by his own upbringing and later by his studies at Fordham University in the early 1970s, though he didn’t publish his first novel, Banished Children of Eve (Fordham University Press), until 1994. In the meantime, he toiled as a speechwriter for former New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo as well as the Time Warner communications organization.
OBITUARIES
Maria Marcus, Public Interest Lawyer and Mentor, Dies at 88
New York Times 05-06-2022
She taught at the Fordham University School of Law from 1978 until her retirement in 2011. She was only the second woman to become a tenured full professor there.
Obituary: Emilia ‘Amy’ (Ariola) Michelsen, 68, Of Danbury, Teacher
Danbury Patch 05-11-2022
She was born on October 5, 1953 in New York, NY, the daughter of the late Dr. Dominic and Philomena (Starace) Ariola. She was a graduate of Fordham University and went on to receive her Master’s of Education from Sacred Heart University.
