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September 28, 2009 • Volume 32, No. 2
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Fordham to Honor Ecumenical Patriarch
Fordham University will present an honorary degree to His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, in a ceremony on Oct. 27.
The Ecumenical Patriarch, the 270th successor of the 2,000-year-old Christian Church founded by St. Andrew, will receive a doctorate of laws, honoris causa, at a ceremony to be held at the University Church on Fordham’s Rose Hill campus.
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Successful Alumni Promote Fordham
from the Ground Floor and Up
While a student at Fordham University, Gerald C. Crotty, FCRH ’73, president of Weichert Enterprise, LLC, started out in biology, moved to English and ended up becoming a lawyer and chief counsel for Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Today, Crotty and other distinguished alumni bring their life experience and style back to the University as members of Fordham’s President’s Council, a group of 80 talented and successful alumni whose allegiance to and love of Fordham has forged a lasting bond between themselves and their alma mater.
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From Fire to Ice
New Economic Trend Adds Heft to
Fordham’s Expansion
There were many reasons put forth last spring for Fordham University to seek a $1.6 billion expansion of its Lincoln Center campus.
But one argument, put forth by the state’s Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU), gave a bird’s eye view of the New York City economy and then laid its punch: there is a dramatic transition happening in New York City’s economy, and Fordham University’s expansion plays a major role in it.
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Anthropologist Asks ‘Age Old’ Question:
Does Older Mean Wiser?
New Economic Trend Adds Heft to
Fordham’s Expansion
Photo Essay: Father Lombardi’s Secret Garden
Libertarian Warns Against More Government
Regulation of Economy
Fordham Freshmen Challenged to
Be Men and Women for Others
History Professor Finds Links Between
Great Britain and Ireland
Biologist Works to Restore Horseshoe Crab Populations
Professor Maps Disableds’ Economic Well-Being in Developing Nations
NEW FEATURES:
This Month in Jesuit History:
New Religious Order Approved on Sept. 27
Grants and Gifts
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Fordham Researchers Partner with Doctors to
Uncover Keys to Autism
SNearly three years ago, a doctor from St. Barnabas Hospital came to the Department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham for help with a medical research question.
David Dayya, D.O., M.P.H., was curious about data mining, a set of techniques for plucking valuable information from the torrent of data routinely generated by computers everywhere. He had found no reports of anyone applying these tools to the causes of disease and disability.
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Fordham at Work
A profile of Kelly Dearborn, Coordinator of Disability Services
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