A Texas man is reunited with the class ring he lost 56 years ago
NPR 08-29-2025
“I was leaning over the railing,” [Al] DiStefano said, “and the ring just slipped off my finger, and I watched it go down into the darkness. And I said, ‘Well, that’s gone. I’m never going to get that back.'” That class ring was set with a red garnet and engraved with the seal of Fordham University — from which DiStefano was graduating — as well as his name and the year 1969.
Central Park pickleball league set up for veterans
Spectrum News NY1 08-26-2025
After years on the battlefield, Adrian Kochanowicz has a new fight: getting veterans in college to bond together. “When we hold events for vets, it’s usually hard to get people to come in,” Adrian Kochanowicz, the assistant director for the office of veterans services at the [Fordham] Lincoln Center campus, said. “Maybe it’s not for a particular individual; maybe there’s no interest. Maybe there’s no will to go, which happens, too.” He’s a veteran himself, having served in the Marine Corps, and remembers the struggles of going back to school.
This article was picked up by The Conway Bulletin.
Pat Moore, a Model Turned Institution at P.J. Clarke’s, Dies at 89
The New York Times 08-28-2025
Patricia enrolled in the school of education at Fordham University and dreamed of becoming a schoolteacher upstate. Her first year, 1953, she was elected Miss Fordham. One judge in the contest was a brewery pageant winner, Miss Rheingold 1953; the two others were Jerry and Eileen Ford, who signed the newly crowned beauty queen to their Ford Modeling Agency. Adopting her mother’s maiden name, Pat Shalvey became Pat Moore and gave up thoughts of teaching.
Fordham University rolls out food-delivery robots
News 12 Bronx 08-27-2025
Fordham University is now offering a fully automated delivery service. Through a partnership between Starship and Grubhub, people can order food from five on-campus restaurants to be delivered via robot. Once an order is placed on Grubhub, one of seven Starship robots will go to the restaurant, pick up the order, and deliver it anywhere on campus.
The robots were also mentioned in The Bronx Times and Newz9.
Revealed: gambling logos and ads seen up to every 13 seconds during big sports games in US
The Guardian 08-26-2025
But John Fortunato, a professor at Fordham University who specializes in sports media, doesn’t expect to see gambling advertising curtailed any time soon. That kind of regulation, he said, would currently “have to happen through legislation and all these state governments like the tax revenue that they’re getting”.
“Everyone’s sort of making money off of it,” Fortunato added.
This article was picked up by MSN.
Scott Detrow Named Host of All Things Considered
NPR 08-27-2025
Detrow joined NPR in 2015. He covered the White House, Congress, and two presidential campaigns for the Washington Desk, where he also co-hosted the NPR Politics Podcast for seven years. Detrow has spent his entire career in public radio, starting out as a reporter in the newsroom at WFUV in the Bronx while a student at Fordham University.
This article was picked up by 13 other outlets including MSN, Newsbreak, AOL, Yahoo! News, and The LA Times.
Claire’s went from millennial rite of passage to Gen Alpha washout. But don’t count out the mall icon yet
Fast Company 09-01-2025
One of Claire’s fatal mistakes was not evolving when mall culture faded away, says Susan Scafidi, academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University. “Shopping at Claire’s was something you would do with your friends, or as part of another shopping trip with your mom,” she says.
Top 15 executive MBA programs: US News
Becker’s Hospital Review 08-28-2025 08-26-2025
The executive MBA ranking is based solely on peer assessments. Business school deans and directors from 133 eligible MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business were asked to nominate up to 15 programs they consider excellent.
The top business schools for executive MBAs: 13. Fordham Gabelli School of Business (New York City).
How the Fed losing its independence could affect Americans’ everyday lives
The Associated Press 08-31-2025
Jane Manners, a law professor at Fordham University, said there is a reason that Congress decided to create independent agencies like the Fed: They preferred “decisions that are made from a kind of objective, neutral vantage point grounded in expertise rather than decisions are that are wholly subject to political pressure.”
This article was picked up by MSN, Yahoo! Finance, and 8 other outlets, and Manners was also quoted in Reuters (picked up by Yahoo! News and MSN) and CNN. Manners also was quoted in similar articles by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Longtime Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler to retire from Congress
The Washington Post 08-31-2025
Nadler was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in Brooklyn. After high school, he attended Columbia University and Fordham Law School and was one of the founders of an organization known as the “West Side Kids,” which protested the Vietnam War and won low-level Democratic Party posts, The Washington Post reported.
‘Human health risk’: These 5 tick species can be found on Staten Island
SI Live 08-31-2025
The risk of being bitten by a tick in New York City is currently moderate, despite the approach of fall temperatures, but the risk changes often, researchers at Fordham University recently warned the public. Currently, the insects are fairly abundant and caution is urged, According to the Fordham Tri-State Tick Risk calendar.
Fordham’s research on ticks was also noted in News9.
Tariff uncertainty, high interest rates muffle demand for industrial real estate
RE Journals 08-30-2025
The semi-annual report is authored by Hany Guirguis, Ph.D., dean, O’Malley School of Business and professor, economics and finance, Manhattan College; and Joshua Harris, Ph.D., executive director, Fordham Real Estate Institute, Fordham University.
Local history | Bennington’s unsung hero
Bennington Banner 08-30-2025
Pauline [Leader], who went totally deaf at age twelve after a bout with meningitis, was rescued from obscurity by Gallaudet University Press when they republished “And No Birds Sing,” in 2016, with analyses by New York University professor Mara Mills and Fordham University professor Rebecca Sanchez.
“Direct attack on consumers”—the impact of the “de minimis” exemption expiration
Audacy 08-29-2025
Online orders could be rising in cost as soon as tomorrow when the federal government’s “de minimis” exemption expires. The Trump administration is halting an exemption that previously allowed goods under $800 to enter the country. For more on what this means for the international economy, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke with Giacomo Santangelo, senior lecturer in the department of economics at Fordham University.
6 Tales of Brooklyn Educational Institutions to Kick Off the School Year
Brownstoner 08-30-2025
For higher education, many Catholic young men were going to Fordham University in the Bronx. But that school was quite a commute for a young man in Brooklyn, so by the 1870s, the Diocese of Brooklyn established its own college, called St. John’s College.
From courts to courses, Milwaukee wins at sports tourism
The Business Journals 08-29-2025
[Marissa] Werner didn’t intend to be Milwaukee’s ambassador to the sporting world. She left for Fordham University on a Division I Women’s Volleyball scholarship, then took a job with Hyatt Hotels, eventually moving to Los Angeles. She came home, briefly, she thought, to escape the traffic.
‘Marvel’s Man in Japan’ Now Chronicles Catholic Martyrs
National Catholic Reporter 08-29-2025
The son of Polish immigrants, [Gene] Pelc grew up Catholic and attended Fordham University, a Jesuit Catholic college in New York City. While at university, Pelc met and fell in love with his wife and, by extension, her native Japan. Drawn to her homeland, he observed during his visits the Japanese passion for comics and animation.
Remembering ‘Lost in Space’ Cast Members We’ve Lost: Dr. Smith to Prof. Robinson
Women’s World 08-29-2025
Jonathan Harris was born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin on November 6, 1914, in the Bronx, New York, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. A bright student, he initially pursued a career in pharmacy and graduated from Fordham University, but his heart was set on the theater.
This article was picked up by MSN and Yahoo! Entertainment.
Opinion: Is Trump engaging in political prosecution — and can he get away with it?
The Hill 08-29-2025
The Justice Department may appear to observers to be enforcing the law selectively to favor Trump loyalists and disfavor his enemies. But if there is sufficient proof of wrongdoing on the defendants’ part, the daunting requirements for proving invidious intent means that any challenge to the department’s enforcement policies would likely fail. Co-author Joel Cohen is senior counsel at Petrillo Klein and Boxer, author of “Blindfolds Off: Judges on How They Decide” and an adjunct professor at both Fordham and Cardozo Law Schools.
This OpEd was picked up by MSN, which was picked up by Yahoo!
Eagle Scout from Central Jersey joins exclusive company earning all 139 merit badges
MyCentralJersey.com (USA Network) 08-29-2025
Christopher Jones Jr. is clutch. He has proven time and again he comes through in a pinch.
Jones, a Monroe resident and an Eagle Scout with Troop 3 in Middlesex District, earned all 139 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Jones graduated with honors from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Edison and will begin college at Fordham University in New York. Once again he is challenging himself with plans to study pre-med and biology.
Jones also was featured in a story by NJ.com.
Inside the US Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’
Al Jazeera 08-28-2025
Aaron Saiger, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, explained that, unlike any other administration in recent history, Trump has relied heavily on emergency relief from the court. “The government asked for it rarely, and the court granted it rarely. Now, the government is asking for it routinely, and the court is granting it routinely,” Saiger told Al Jazeera.
She Spent Three Weeks Digging for a Diamond for Her Engagement Ring—and Unearthed a 2.3-Carat Stunner
Smithsonian Magazine 08-28-2025
Earlier this year, [Micherre] Fox finished a master’s program at Fordham University. She decided it was the ideal time to travel to Arkansas and spend three weeks camping while she searched for her diamond.
Who’s truly at the forefront of fighting for equity?
Substack 08-28-2025
Dr. Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campus. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, Black ethnic politics, campaigns and elections, and public opinion.
Black-Latina Entrepreneur Makes History, Helps 32 Families Become Homeowners in 10 Months
Black News 08-28-2025
A graduate of Fordham University with a degree in Communications and Media, Crystal [Mestres-Bishop] is also a certified personal trainer who has launched a wellness platform called MWEFit.com that encourages families — men, women, and children — to work out together and prioritize their health.
Let’s be sure to support our teachers
New York Amsterdam News 08-28-2025
“What so many teachers state on Donors Choose is that no donation is too small. We must resist the urge to emulate the selfishness and hoarding we are witnessing at the federal level. We know better, and we must do better. Our investment now will pay off dividends in the future. I know it,” wrote Christina Greer, associate professor at Fordham University.
What Would Free Buses Look Like, Actually?
The New Yorker 08-28-2025
One of the busiest buses in New York City, the Bx12, starts its route at one end of the A train, in Inwood at the very top of Manhattan, and runs across to Co-op City, in the Bronx—the largest housing coöperative in the world. In between, it crosses a lot of places people might want to get on: the 1 train, the 4, the D, the 2, and the 5; the tip of the Bronx Zoo; the bottom of the Botanical Garden; Fordham University; the Metro-North railroad (Hudson Line); and the Bruckner Expressway, an enormous highway designed by Robert Moses, which cuts large swaths of the Bronx off from the water.
Is Trump’s DC Military Deployment the Start of a Slow-Motion Civil War?
The Nation 08-27-2025
Anjali Dayal, an international politics professor at Fordham University, took issue with Sharlet’s post—at least the way she read it: “I respect Jeff’s work but we should be careful about what we forecast & how inevitable we make it seem. We are not close to a civil war, but I worry we are perilously close to a mass casualty event because of the undisciplined nature of irregular security forces & an extremely armed civil society.”
Meet top Manhattan personal trainer Maik Wiedenbach
New York Daily News 08-27-2025
[Maik] Wiedenbach’s journey began in Germany as an elite swimmer, competing at World Cup and Olympic levels before earning a swimming scholarship to Fordham University in New York. His athletic legacy continued in the States as he transitioned into bodybuilding, clinching multiple bodybuilding titles and building a reputation rooted in discipline and results. He’s also a member of the Fordham Hall of Fame and holds dual degrees in history and German literature — there clearly was more than muscle to the successful athlete and entrepreneur.
Trump issuing ‘tsunami of lies’ to create ‘police state’ in U.S.: Daily Beast columnist
MSNBC 08-26-2025
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminating cashless bail for suspects arrested in Washington, D.C., and in other jurisdictions around the nation with similar policies. NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor has our reporting. Fordham University Associate Professor Christina Greer, Washington Post Pentagon Reporter Dan Lamothe and Columnist at The Daily Beast David Rothkopf join Ana Cabrera to weigh in.
This article was picked up by Yahoo! News.
Why there are so many scent dupes
Morning Brew 08-25-2025
“In trademark, it all comes down to the question of whether the consumer is confused, and a consumer who is reading the message ‘this smells like Tom Ford’s Black Orchid but it’s not’ is not going to be confused,” Susan Scafidi, the academic director of Fordham University’s Fashion Law Institute, told the FT.—AR
Health experts issue warning as dangerous threat spreads across US: ‘This year is one of the worst we’ve seen’
The Cool Down 08-25-2025
In 2025, tick populations in the Northern U.S. surged by 20-30% compared to last year, according to longtime vector ecologist Thomas Daniels of Fordham University. Black-legged ticks, the primary carriers of Lyme disease, are not active early in the year but instead linger longer into fall, carrying more pathogens than ever before.
This article was picked up by Yahoo! News.
How Jack Curry’s love of music became a subtle staple of his Yankees coverage on YES Network
New York Daily News 08-24-2025
As a student at Fordham University, Curry, then an aspiring sportswriter, would also contribute album reviews to the campus newspaper, The Ram. Curry’s most memorable interview at The Ram was not an athlete, but rather British punk rocker Billy Idol, whom he spoke with ahead of a concert on the university’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx in 1983. Curry managed to project the interview over a speaker so others in his dorm room could listen.
Why Is Andrew Cuomo Still Running for Mayor? The Answer May Lie in 1977.
The New York Times 08-23-2025
Even then, as a 19-year-old Fordham University student, Andrew was at his father’s side, always an outsize presence, the influential adviser, ready to take on the kind of street fighting that defined urban politics — scampering up telephone poles to pull down “Koch for Mayor” signs and replace them with Cuomo signs.
Elon Musk tried to court Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance xAI’s attempted $98 billion OpenAI takeover, court filing shows
Fortune Magazine 08-22-2025
“I don’t disagree necessarily with his viewpoint that the restructuring of OpenAI as a for profit company is probably not good for humanity,” Amelia Martella, adjunct professor and executive director of Fordham University’s Corporate Law Center, told Fortune. “At the same time, he is probably looking to control all of the successful AI companies. So there’s a mixed motive for sure.”
This article was picked up by MSN, AOL, Newsbreak, and Yahoo! Entertainment.
The People’s Advocate: Gonzalo Duran’s Mission To Restore The American Dream In NYC
The Bronx Daily 08-22-2025
This adversity defined his next chapter. While attending Fordham University, he [Gonzalo Duran] helped a fellow veteran secure housing—a simple act that exposed systemic failures. Veterans using GI Bill benefits were denied apartments for lack of conventional income paperwork.
Uncovering New York’s Haunted Historical Path: An Exploration of 80 Disturbing Stages
Archdye 08-28-2025
Duane Library & Dealy Hall, Fordham University (Stage 4): Reports dating back to 1976 detail ghostly occurrences within these Fordham University buildings. (Shelley, 2016; Buried Secrets Podcast, 2021).
Joseph A. O’Hare
America Magazine 08-25-2025
Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., served as America’s editor in chief from 1975-84, before being named president of Fordham University, and remained there until 2003. Also a civic leader, Father O’Hare returned to America in 2003 to serve as an associate editor. He retired in 2009 and was involved in pastoral work until his death in 2020.
Grad student makes history as he studies history
SUNY Cortland 08-26-2025
It’s a project where [J.C.] Polanco has found his time as a Cortland student to be a help. He was previously more interested in economic history, based on his business law firm and earlier MBA from Fordham University. But since his new classes, he’s enjoyed developing a wider range of knowledge.
Weekly Kickoff: It’s Finally Boston College Game Week!
Yahoo! Sports, SB Nation 08-25-2025
We’re finally here! On Saturday afternoon, the Boston College football team will host the Fordham Rams at Alumni Stadium for their first game of the 2025 regular season. The forecast for Saturday is 72 degrees and sunny for what should be a BC beatdown.
Aurora Brothers Run Free Tutoring Service for Low-Income Students
Westword 08-26-2025
Salahdiin [Adan] says he wants to be a corporate lawyer, and is leaning towards attending the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, though he hasn’t made up his mind. Abdullahi [Adan] wants to study at Fordham University in New York and become a neurosurgeon. However, Salahdiin says that he wants to help people struggling with the immigration system in the country, too.
