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Longtime Employees Lauded at Convocation
Employees who are celebrating their 40- and 20-year work anniversaries at Fordham this year were recognized at the annual Convocation ceremony at the Lincoln Center campus on March 5. This marked the first time that faculty and staff were celebrated at the same ceremony, rather than two individual ones. Some of them began working at …
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How Do We Use Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom?
Popular programs like ChatGPT can solve complex math problems, create original music and art, and write stories better than an actual person—and sound like one, too. This has triggered a big question among educators: How will AI affect assignments, assessments, and originality in the classroom? On Feb. 7, Fordham’s Graduate School of Education hosted a …
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Fordham London Professor Teaches Shakespeare with a Modern Twist
Varsha Panjwani, Ph.D., an English professor at Fordham’s London campus, teaches Shakespeare with a 21st-century twist. Her course, Shakespeare, shows students how to use the bard’s famous plays to relate to their lives regardless of their ethnicity, culture, or sexual orientation. Panjwani was born in India and raised in Dubai and Kuwait. At 18 years …
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Professor Explains How to Make Sense Out of Supply Chain Chaos
The pandemic and the war in Ukraine threw a wrench into the global supply chain system, causing unprecedented problems for those who transport goods around the globe. Matthew Hockenberry, Ph.D., an assistant professor of media industries, explains how to understand the myriad moving parts of what turns out to be a very fragile system.
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Should New Yorkers Be Allowed to Carry Concealed Guns?
Amid a pattern of mass shootings across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court is debating the constitutionality of a longtime gun law in New York—and one Fordham professor is trying to help them make their final decision. Last summer, Saul Cornell, Ph.D., the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History, weighed in on U.S. …
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Teaching Theology to Women in Prison
What does theology look like for women in prison? In a qualitative research project with two other scholars, Rachelle Green, Ph.D., assistant professor of practical theology and education at the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, searched for the answer to that question by educating and interviewing inmates at a Georgia prison. Green directed …
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The Impact of Racism and Environment on Students’ Sleep
In the first video of this year’s annual faculty mini-lecture series, Tiffany Yip, Ph.D., chair and professor of the psychology department, explains how racism and the environment can impact students’ sleep. Yip has explored the human relationship with ethnic identity in more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. Her research specifically focuses on ethnic identity development among …
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The Big Question: Which Fordham Professor Had a Profound Influence on Your Life?
Last fall, at a Mass in memory of Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., Kevin Doyle, FCRH ’78, spoke about his former Fordham professor’s dedication as a teacher. “Ray was consistently demanding but incredibly patient,” Doyle said of Father Schroth, a Jesuit priest, professor, and journalist who died in July 2020 at the age of 86. A …
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Rising Temperatures, Rising Concern
With the effects of climate change drawing increasing attention, the Fordham community has ideas for bringing the issue down to Earth and spurring the public to action. Robin Happel describes global climate change in terms both vivid and personal: the wildfire smoke that was so thick she “could barely see the road” while going home …
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Pope Francis Elevates Fordham-Educated Archbishop Focused on Migrants’ Plight
Among those that Pope Francis will bring into his inner circle this month is a Fordham-educated archbishop and veteran of the Vatican diplomatic corps who has spent much of his career working on migration issues. On Nov. 28, Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S., and 12 others will join the College of Cardinals, a group of principal …
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Alumni Event Offers Window into Immigrant Life in Early Tenements
The journey into the past began with a virtual trip down narrow hallways, up a dimly lit staircase, and into a tidy apartment about as spacious as a school bus. Here lived a family of eight, the four sons sleeping in the parlor on chairs, using the sofa as a common pillow. There was running …
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