December 8, 2008

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December 8, 2008 • Volume 31, No. 7

Fordham Law Kicks Off $100 Million Campaign

The Fordham School of Law launched the public phase of an ambitious $100 million fundraising campaign with a gala celebration on Nov. 14 at the New York Public Library.

The campaign—the largest in Fordham Law history—will aid the creation of a new law school building while strengthening the school’s annual fund, professorships, scholarships and centers.

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Ram Rhyton Takes Up
Residence at Rose Hill

Ram Mascot, get ready to share the limelight: the Rhyton has arrived.

Fordham’s Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art is the recipient of an ancient rhyton, or drinking cup, in the shape of a ram’s head.

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Workshop Explores Migrant Remittance Economy

Leaders from microfinance organizations and credit unions in New York and abroad teamed up with Fordham scholars at a workshop on the financial trends of migrants and the families they leave behind.

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Gabelli Sees Upside to Recession for Graduates

Day Remembered as Ordinary Person who
Accomplished the Extraordinary

Addiction Research in the Spotlight at
Brother Lawless Lecture

Photo Essay: Words and Music from Studio A

Love Poem’ to Kennedys Gets
New York Premiere at Fordham

Medieval Leper Stories Shrouded in
Myth and Misunderstanding

Professor Investigates the Pitfalls and
Potentials of Outsourcing

The Waterfront Priest:
Professor Recounts One Jesuit’s Quest to
Clean Up Corrupt NYC Docks

Scholar Studies Interracial Relationships in
Colonial Ghana

Inside Fordham Staff and Submission Deadlines

Bronx Beautiful:
Plan Would Revitalize
Roadways Around Fordham

Traveling the Bronx roadways near Fordham College at Rose Hill will be easier and more pleasant under a $150 million urban-renewal plan being advanced by the University and three of its neighbors.

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NEW FEATURE:
Fordham at Work

A profile of Mary E. Owens, Global Outreach Administrator, Office of Campus Ministry

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