Spring 2008

           
        
On the Cover
Pretty Green: This detail of an Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) at Fordham University's Louis Calder Center, a 113-acre biological field station in Armonk, N.Y., is FORDHAM's natural symbol of social and environmental sustainability (see "Going Green").
Photo by Bill Denison

Features

Going Green
The sustainability movement has taken off at Fordham, where students, faculty, administrators and alumni are tackling wasteful consumption and global warming by thinking and acting green.

Better Read Than Dead
KGB Bar's reading series brings culture and literature to the hipster masses.

City Builder
MaryAnne Gilmartin (FCRH '86) has helped reshape the Manhattan skyline. Now she's spearheading one of the most ambitious—and controversial—developments ever attempted in Brooklyn.

Radio, Radio
WFUV (90.7 FM, www.wfuv.org) reaches beyond the dial to entertain and educate an ever-growing community of music lovers with its rare mix of sports, NPR news and cultural programming, and "rock and roll for grownups."

In Cursu Honorum
This year's honors theses reveal the depth and range of undergraduate research at the University—knowledge that can be applied to the knotty problems of our world.

The Wall on Stage
Fordam students joined some of the sharpest talents in contemporary theater to stage a play about the psychological and physical walls separating Israelis and Palestinians.