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Application deadline
Fordham Research Fellows & Interns applications due March 15 (faculty fellows) and April 1 (student interns) Fordham-Columbia, Fordham-NYU, Fordham-IBM, and Fordham-Georgetown Research Fellow and Research Intern Program
Upcoming events
Inaugural Global Research Alliance of Jesuit Universities (GRAJU) symposium, March 9-12, 2026, hosted by Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines
This newly formed research alliance among Jesuit Universities worldwide will hold its first symposium in the Philippines this March. Fordham University is one of its seven founding members, and the theme will be “The AI Frontier and the Distinctives of Global Jesuit Higher Education.” See an overview of the alliance’s vision to advance cooperative research among Jesuit Universities here.
University Research Day – April 13, 2026
O’Hare Room, Walsh Library (4th Floor) from 3 – 5:00pm, reception from 5 – 6:30pm
In addition to the awards ceremony presented by President Tetlow and Provost Jacobs, this year’s keynote speaker is Dr. D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University. Dr. Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and co-editor of Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (Crown, 2026) as well as Twelve Theses on Attention (Princeton University Press, 2022), both with the Friends of Attention coalition — creators of the non-profit Strother School of Radical Attention in Brooklyn, which Burnett directs. He co-curated the “Practices of Attention” program at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, and is associated with the speculative collective ESTAR(SER). In 2023, he was a visiting artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. Burnett writes widely on technology, culture, and media.
The Keynote speech title is “Attention really is all you need.” A very important scientific article in the history of artificial intelligence research, and one of the most cited papers of all times, is “Attention is all you need.” Published in 2017, and authored by a group of Google researchers, this paper laid out a crucial insight concerning transformer architecture, and enabled modern large language models. But what is the “attention” of the title? In this talk, D. Graham Burnett, a historian of science and outspoken voice in the Attention Activism movement, will situate modern algorithmic attention with respect to the wider existential, social, and political significance of human attention — with a special focus on the unprecedented challenges of our moment.
D. Graham Burnett (photo by Landon Speers)
Graduate Student Research Day - April 29, 2026
The Office of Research, serving as co-sponsor, is excited to announce a university-wide research showcase event taking place at the Law School Costantino Room (mezzanine level) on April 29, 2026, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. This event will feature a poster session and the keynote speaker will be Dr. Julia Stoyanovich.
Dr. Julia Stoyanovich is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and of Data Science, and Director of the Center for Responsible AI (https://r-ai.co) at New York University. Her mission is to make “Responsible AI” synonymous with “AI.” She pursues this goal through academic research, education, technology policy, and public engagement. Her research spans data management and AI systems, as well as the ethics and governance of AI. Julia holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Dr. Julia Stoyanovich