Research

Isaie Dougnon, Ph.D., an associate professor of French and Francophone studies and international humanitarian affairs, has spent the last few months running a research project that hits close to home— studying water and migration in his native Mali. Funded through a nearly $25,000 grant awarded to Dougnon by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in September 2023, the …

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A new generation of students at the Bronx Jewish History Project is getting help from those with experience—the group’s student co-founder and a professional historian.  BJHP is a Fordham research initiative that preserves the stories of the Jewish Bronx. The project originally began with Sophia Maier, FCRH ’23, who documented the stories of more than …

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A Fordham graduate student’s research is impacting policy around food benefits for young people. This fall in Arizona, advocates used a research report from Alexander Meyer, a Fordham student in the international political economy and development graduate program, to get the state to change its policy around SNAP benefits for community college students. During the …

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A researcher seeks to advance regenerative medicine After graduating from Fordham College at Rose Hill in 2022 with a degree in integrative neuroscience, Diego Perez landed a spot in the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s Camargo Lab, which focuses on adult stem cell biology, organ size regulation, and cancer. As a research assistant, one of the …

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An Engineering Physics Majors Launches His Career at SpaceX Growing up in Westport, Connecticut, David Adipietro loved working on cars and wanted to pursue a career in automotive engineering, but he wasn’t sure how to get started. One day, while scrolling through a Facebook group for car enthusiasts, he had an idea. “I sent a …

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For Emma Phan, a sophomore chemistry major, the summer was a chance to dive into her research project related to ALS, a neurodegenerative disease. With help from recent graduate Beatriz Goncalves, FCRH ’23, and her mentor Professor Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D., Phan looked into how specific peptides—strings of amino acids—could potentially mitigate an enzyme that contributes …

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More than 30 undergraduates at Fordham College Rose Hill just completed a summer full of research, mentorship, and exploration. The second annual FCRH Summer Research Program, which had its final presentations on August 1 and 3, provides its participants with a unique opportunity to dedicate the summer to a research project of their choosing. Students …

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This summer, Fordham received approval for a new major in biochemistry from the New York State Department of Education. The major aims to help students combine biology and chemistry work to better understand the chemical processes that are the foundation of life. “Our body essentially is like a laboratory—you have chemical reactions going on 24/7,” …

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Four students in Fordham’s College Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) and Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) were recognized for their research at statewide student conferences this year.  CSTEP and STEP are programs that provide support to New York high school and college students from underrepresented backgrounds, including academic support and counseling, scholarships, and …

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More than 35 students from a variety of disciplines in Fordham College at Lincoln Center presented their research at the annual Ars Nova fair on April 20, held in the 12th-Floor Lounge at the Lowenstein Center. Student presentations explored everything from new methods of environmental remediation to finding a welcoming queer, Arab community and analyzing …

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Fordham faculty and students demonstrated how they’re using data to enhance medical research, examine the impact of social media, prevent AI “attackers,” and more at the “Doing Good with Data” symposium, held at the Law School on April 11. “It’s particularly exciting to see how data science is being used to enhance ethically informed and …

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