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‘Making it Real’: Fordham’s Design and Construction Team

‘Making it Real’: Fordham’s Design and Construction Team

The forthcoming Bronx Green Jobs Center, Rose Hill’s future STEM facility, and the chapel coming to the Louis Calder Center may seem like very different projects, but they all share …

How Hot Is Too Hot for Your Tomato Plants?

How Hot Is Too Hot for Your Tomato Plants?

In the Northeast, the end of summer is when gardeners finally get to harvest fresh, juicy tomatoes.  But climate change is making summers hotter; it’s also creating longer droughts and …

Tracking the Deer Population: A New Camera Technique

Tracking the Deer Population: A New Camera Technique

If you’re feeling like deer are everywhere, you’re not wrong: their abundance in the Northeast has sparked widespread concerns, from the depletion of forests to highway accidents and more. But …

The New York Times: Fordham Tick Expert Says Tick Risk is 10/10

The New York Times: Fordham Tick Expert Says Tick Risk is 10/10

The tick situation this summer really is bad, Thomas Daniels, the director of the Louis Calder Center in Armonk, told The Times in this article. The Fordham Tick Index, which gauges the risk of …

8 ‘Green’ Degrees to Fight Climate Change

8 ‘Green’ Degrees to Fight Climate Change

Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time, and young people increasingly want to be part of the solution. Fortunately, there’s a “green” college major to …

Bird Deaths from Window Collisions Are Undercounted, Researcher Says

Bird Deaths from Window Collisions Are Undercounted, Researcher Says

Every year, over a billion birds collide with buildings around the country. An estimated 600 million die immediately or succumb to their injuries on the ground. But what about the …

Which Trees Make You Sneeze?

Which Trees Make You Sneeze?

Guy Robinson, Ph.D., maintains and collects pollen samples from the city's only official pollen monitoring station, located at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. Photo by Rafael Villa.

Student Highlights Unseen Vibrant World in New York-Area Ponds

Student Highlights Unseen Vibrant World in New York-Area Ponds

Michael Kausch has a very mixed relationship with some of the smallest living things on earth. On the one hand, Kausch, a Ph.D. student based at Fordham’s Louis Calder Center …

Rising Temperatures, Rising Concern

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 …

From Undergraduate Research to the Frontiers of Pharmaceuticals

From Undergraduate Research to the Frontiers of Pharmaceuticals

After entering Fordham College at Rose Hill with ambitions of becoming a medical doctor, Elsa Au-Yeung, FCRH ’20, made discoveries that took her career down another avenue of the health …

Director Gives Look ‘Behind the Science’ at the Louis Calder Center

Director Gives Look ‘Behind the Science’ at the Louis Calder Center

Researching how plants adapt to a changing climate. Examining the effect of water conditions on populations of aquatic organisms. Investigating vector-borne diseases. These are just some examples of the work …