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Rams in the News: April 12, 2019

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

DAVID GIBSON
Retired Pope Benedict XVI blames clerical abuse on ‘all-out sexual freedom’ of the 1960s
New York Daily News 04-11-19
David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture took issue with the ex-Pope’s comments.

AMELIA HENNIGHAUSEN
Curating the cosmos: a lens on nature
Nature 04-08-19
Amelia Hennighausen is the US media editor at Nature, and professor of photojournalism at Fordham University in New York City.

KATHRYN REKLIS
The people who haunt us
Christian Century 04-10-19
Kathryn Reklis teaches theology at Fordham University and is co-director of the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice.

“I Was Built for the Battle”: Chris Cuomo Is Fighting for His Life on CNN
Hollywood Reporter 04-10-19
And yet, after attending Yale and earning a law degree from Fordham University, [Chris] Cuomo went into the business anyway.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

UMass strikes out going into Swipe Off championships
Daily Collegian 04-10-19
Stanford and Fordham universities will be pitted against each other from the west and east coast respectively along with Cornell University against University of California, San Diego.

Young Catholics are not the Church of the future, but of the now
Dom Total 04-10-10
At the central roundabout of Keating Hall, on the Fordham University campus in New York, there is a unique statue that is often overlooked by students and teachers on their way to class.

A chance to see a rare Hebrew manuscript made in medieval Milan
Apollo Magazine 04-10-19
As well as a gallery talk (13 April), the show will also be accompanied by a public lecture (10 April) and conference (14 April) at, and co-sponsored by, Fordham University, and an illuminating scholarly monograph (Paul Holberton Publishing).

Bronx Borough Night Kicks Off on April 24 vs Chicago Fire
NYCFC 04-10-19
The Bronx Borough pin will be available on Wednesday, April 24 and Bronx natives, Renaissance Youth Choir, will be performing the national anthem while Fordham University will be presenting the nations colors during the national anthem.

WAC LIGHTING FOUNDATION 2019 INVITATIONAL SCIENCE FAIR AT THE WHEATLEY SCHOOL IN OLD WESTBURY
Electrical News 04-10-19
Judges include over 135 academicians and professionals who are affiliated with leading universities, hospitals and other institutions including: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Long Island University, New York University, North Shore University Hospital-LIJ Medical Center, Wiell Cornell Medical College, Hofstra University and Mount Sinai Medical Center, St. Johns University and Fordham University, Adelphi and Hofstra University.

Social determinants affect survivors’ recoveries
Marquette Wire 04-09-19
The report was conducted with assistance from Fordham University.

Analysis: Which college volleyball program grossed the most in the U.S.
Michigan Business Daily 04-08-19
26 NY Fordham University

The Harlem Line From NY And Harlem Railroad Was The First Streetcar Company In The World
Harlem World Magazine 04-08-19
The Harlem Line then parallels the western edge of Fordham University until the Botanical Garden station at Bedford Park Boulevard (200th Street).

Gentrifying Fordham and University Heights
This Is The Bronx 04-07-19
The effects of gentrification in Fordham and Highbridge are examined in a provocative report by the Fordham Ram that cites increasing real estate developments and rising rent.

3 Reasons Why a Diverse Team is Crucial to a Startup’s Success
HR Technologist 04-05-19
Although much of the noise and protests of the chain has died down recently, not everyone has forgotten the controversy: The chain was denied its proposal to build a restaurant on the campus of Fordham University after a huge amount of backlash from student groups in support of LGBTQ rights.

Jordon’s artwork now on display at OSU
Gazette Times 04-04-19
Jordon’s solo exhibitions include The Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Whitebox Gallery in Portland; and the Frye Museum in Seattle.

NYC Jewish-y Events, April 5 – April 14
The New York Jewish Week 04-04-19
A conference and on “The Haggadah in the Middle Ages and Beyond: A Celebration for Passover”, followed by a reception, will take place Sunday, April 14, 1-5 p.m. (Fordham University, McNally Amphitheater, 140 W. 62nd St.)

FORMER ADMINISTRATORS

SHARON DEVIVO
Fast Five: Dr. Sharon DeVivo
Metropolitan Airport News 04-04-19
Dr. DeVivo began her career as director of public relations at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and then moved on to Fordham University where she served as public affairs manager.

ADMINISTRATORS

DAVID GIBSON
Retired Pope Benedict XVI blames clerical abuse on ‘all-out sexual freedom’ of the 1960s
New York Daily News 04-11-19
David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture took issue with the ex-Pope’s comments.

SCHOOL OF LAW

When Theatre Turns Audiences Into Activists
Howlround Theatre Commons 04-10-19
The Courtroom, devised by Waterwell in collaboration with Fordham Law School, was performed in New York City at law schools, courthouses, and Judson Church, where I saw it.

ESADE Law School will train lawyers qualified to practise in both Spain and the United States
ESADE Ramon Llull University 04-05-19
Specifically, ESADE students will have the chance to take part in the Master of Laws programmes offered by Cornell Law School (Ithaca), University of Pennsylvania Law School (Philadelphia), Fordham University School of Law (New York City) and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York City).

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

FIASI to Host Conference with a Focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Integration in Fixed Income
PR Newswire 04-09-19
The Fordham University – Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis is serving as the lead sponsor for the event.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

SEANN RILEY
Uptrust Expands Executive Team, Appoints Seann Riley as Director of Partnerships
Fox 40 WICZ 04-10-19
He is an adjunct professor at CUNY Law School, and was previously a Supervising Attorney in the Adolescent Representation Clinic and Holistic Defense Externship Clinic at Columbia Law School, and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School.

MARK DAVIES
Mississippi lawmakers receive hundreds of thousands in gifts from state universities
Mississippi Clarion Ledger 04-10-19
Mark Davies, a Fordham University law professor and ethics expert, said this arrangement is problematic.

REBECCA KYSAR
Can Congress force Trump to hand over his tax returns? I asked 11 legal experts.
Vox 04-09-19
Rebecca Kysar, law professor, Fordham University

MATTHEW GOLD
U.S. Readies $11 Billion in Tariffs on E.U.
The New York Times 04-09-19
Matthew Gold, an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University, said, “The W.T.O. dispute settlement body will likely authorize the United States to impose retaliatory tariffs in the magnitude we’re asking for, or close to it.”

JAMES COHEN
Kentucky distillery owner faces new charge in college admissions scandal
Louisville Courier Journal 04-10-19
The addition of a money laundering charge means any defendant hoping to be “within striking distance” of a nonprison sentence will probably be disappointed, James Cohen, a Fordham University law professor, told USA TODAY.

JAMES COHEN
Lori Loughlin indicted by federal grand jury, charged with money laundering
USA Today 04-09-19
A superseding indictment means the original indictment was amended or updated, says James Cohen, a law professor at Fordham University in New York.

BRAD WIEBOLDT
Aspiring doctor recalls saving LIRR passenger’s life
Newsaday 04-03-19
But he knew Wieboldt, who was heading to his job as director of marketing at Fordham Law School, was still near death.

SHLOMIT YANISKY-RAVID
Combination of patent law, copyright can protect AI innovation, panel suggests
The Lawyer’s Daily 04-08-19
Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, a faculty member at Ono Academic College in Israel, and Fordham Law School in New York City, kicked off the March 21 discussion by playing clips of music, asking which score was created by a human or AI.

JOHN ROGAN
Why it’s hard to remove, or even diagnose, mentally ill or unstable presidents
The Conversation 04-09-19
John Rogan
Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
The Nation: oldest weekly magazine in the US names new editor
The Guardian 04-10-19
Zephyr Teachout, an associate law professor at Fordham University who was appointed last year to the Nation’s editorial board, said: “I’m excited to have Don coming on. He’s very witty and incisive and completely dedicated to both journalism and making sure that the progressive voices taking on concentrated power are heard.”

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Sorry is the easiest word – but should Democrats stop their apology tour?
The Guardian 04-08-19
Teachout, an associate law professor at Fordham University, also rejected the notion of Democrats eating their own.

OLIVIER SYLVAIN
Even Elizabeth Warren & Donald Trump Can Agree That Big Tech’s Power Is a Problem
Observer 04-05-19
“Even Ben Carson knows something is going on,” said Olivier Sylvain, a professor of law at Fordham University and an expert and frequent commentator on antitrust law and tech firms.

JOHN PFAFF
The New Zealand mosque shooter could be the country’s first person sent to prison for life
Vox 04-05-19
John Pfaff, a criminal justice expert at Fordham University and the author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, previously told me there are a few reasons for the age-crime curve.

JED SHUGERMAN
New York State Democrats make their own push for Trump’s taxes
CNN 04-09-19
Jed Shugerman, a professor of law at Fordham University who specializes in constitutional law, told CNN that he believes the proposed legislation would stand up to legal challenge — but that New York legislators should still be prepared for a fight to get the returns.

JED SHUGERMAN
William Barr Seems to Be Covering Up Something Bad for Trump
Daily Intelligencer 04-04-19
(Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman spotted this contradiction.)

JED SHUGERMAN
Trump Allies Change Their Tune on Rod Rosenstein
The Atlantic 04-04-19
“It is very odd for someone to be supervising the investigation for which they are a witness, let alone a central witness to the underlying act,” Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, told The Atlantic in an interview.

JED SHUGERMAN
CNN TONIGHT
CNN 04-04-19
JED SHUGERMAN, PROFESSOR, FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL: I think it does signals some concern.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF RELIGION FACULTY

C. COLT ANDERSON
The Reform Seminaries Need
Commonweal Magazine 04-01-19
C. Colt Anderson, is professor of Christian Spirituality at Fordham University.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE

DANA B. MARLOWE
Learn to identify symptoms of childhood trauma at Greenwich conference
Greenwich Time 04-08-19
Dana B. Marlowe, LCSW, Associate Clinical Professor, Fordham University

FORMER ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

MITCHELL A. LEVY
CSM Appoints Dr. Mitchell A. Levy as Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs
College of Southern Maryland 04-08-19
As a full professor for Fordham University and associate professor for Long Island University, Levy presented nearly 100 graduate courses in mental health and school counseling and more than 40 undergraduate psychology courses.

COSTAS PANAGOPOULOS
How do we get people to vote? Let’s try financial incentives.
The Washington Post 04-04-19
Then-Fordham University (now Northeastern) political scientist Costas Panagopoulos has researched the impact of paying cash rewards to people who vote, conducting two separate studies in California communities in which voters were randomly assigned to receive one of two postcards: a reminder to vote or the option to receive a financial award for voting.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

KATHRYN REKLIS
The people who haunt us
Christian Century 04-10-19
Kathryn Reklis teaches theology at Fordham University and is codirector of the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice.

MARK NAISON
WEEKDAY MAGAZINE – The Bronx: A Prose Poem
This Is The Bronx 04-09-19
Mark Naison is Professor of African American Studies and History at Fordham University and founded the Bronx African American History Project.

AMELIA HENNIGHAUSEN
Curating the cosmos: a lens on nature
Nature 04-08-19
Amelia Hennighausen is the US media editor at Nature, and professor of photojournalism at Fordham University in New York City.

CHARLES CAMOSY
Is our political divide, at heart, really all about abortion?
The Christian Science Monitor 04-09-19
“There’s this whole range of positions one can have, to the point where the life/choice binary just makes no sense,” says Charles Camosy, an associate professor of ethics at Fordham University and author of “Beyond the Abortion Wars: A Way Forward for a New Generation.”

CHARLES CAMOSY
Young moral theologians seek to put “new wine into new wineskins.” Interview with Alessandro Rovati
Instituto Humanitas Unisinos 04-05-19
He talked about his work with theologian Charles Camosy , a professor at Fordham University.

DANIEL ALEXANDER JONES
DGF Is Sending Traveling Masters To Ohio And Minnesota This April
Broadway World 04-05-19
A primary contributor to the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic, he is Associate Professor of Theatre at Fordham University.

COLIN M. CATHCART
Growing pains only just begin for Toronto
Canadian Real Estate 04-05-19
Colin M. Cathcart, associate professor of architecture, Fordham University:
“Vertical sprawl in the ‘urban ring’ 10-20 miles from the central business district and along access edges to the core. This allows for the social diversity and the diversity of building types (that leads to the diversity of primary uses) called for by Jane Jacobs.

CHRISTINA GREER
Keeping the Highlander Center in our thoughts
New York Amsterdam News 04-04-19
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” the co-host of the new podcast FAQ-NYC, and the host of The Aftermath and The Counter on Ozy.com.

CHRISTINA GREER
For Democrats, all paths to the White House run through the House of Sharpton
The Los Angeles Times 04-04-19
“No one wants to be on the negative end of his organization,” said Christina Greer, who teaches black ethnic politics at Fordham University in New York.

SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING STUDIES FACULTY

ROMAN M. RUBINCHIK
BBG’S New York Office Appoints two Industry Leaders
PR Newswire 04-10-19
Mr. Rubinchik is a faculty member at Fordham University and New York University.

ATHLETICS

East softball enters season with unfinished business
Amherst Bee 04-09-19
Three starting infielders are playing Division I softball next year — senior captains Rachel Steffan (Fordham University, first base) and Christy Mack (University of Hartford, shortstop); as well as senior pitcher Cara Leone (University at Buffalo). A fourth starter, sophomore pitcher Summer Clark, has verbally committed to the University of Missouri.

Men’s Tennis Result: Fordham 7, Bearcats 0
Baruch College 04-08-19
The men’s tennis team lost 7-0 to the Division I tennis team from Fordham University on Sunday afternoon in the Bronx.

We Lost Another New York Sports Media Character This Week; Robert Elkin
Sports Marketing & PR Roundup 04-05-19
Tom Dewey, the longtime track coach at Nazareth High School and Fordham University, was one of those kind souls who took some pity on Robert, and would always give him a ride after a day of covering meets at fields far and wide.

HS Softball Wrap: Burlington Twp.’s Bailey Enoch fans 15 in win over Rancocas Valley
The Trentonian 04-04-19
Coming off a 16-strikeout performance earlier in the week, this time the Fordham University-recruit [Bailey Enoch] fanned 15.

ALUMNI

The Professor and the Adjunct
The New Yorker 04-10-19
But [John] Sexton had helpful, interventionist mentors, first at Brooklyn Prep and later at Fordham University.

Pitt law professor Gerald S. Dickinson to challenge U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle in 2020
Public Source 04-10-19
After college, [Gerald S.] Dickinson completed his Fulbright scholarship work in South Africa and then returned to the United States to attend law school at Fordham University.

‘I will never have to sleep with a music compiler to get my music on radio!’
702 04-10-19
[Nomsa] Mazwai has a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University in New York City.

“I Was Built for the Battle”: Chris Cuomo Is Fighting for His Life on CNN
Hollywood Reporter 04-10-19
And yet, after attending Yale and earning a law degree from Fordham University, [Chris] Cuomo went into the business anyway.

Visually Impaired Since Birth, Newark School Board Candidate Garces has a Particular Vantage Point on Empathy
Insider New Jersey 04-10-19
Employed by the NJ Immigrants Alliance, [Priscilla Garces] holds a Master’s Degree in nonprofit leadership from Fordham University and a translator certification from New York University.

Michael Deegan Assumes Duties As Interim Schools Superintendent
Catholic New York 04-10-19
[Michael Deegan] also completed post-graduate work in educational administration from Manhattan College and Fordham University.

Stacey Cohen CEO of Co-Communications: “You need to invest in yourself to build any lacking skills and surround yourself with others that you can learn from”
Authority Magazine 04-10-19
[Stacey Cohen] holds a B.S. from Syracuse University, MBA from Fordham University and recently completed a certificate program in Media, Technology and Entertainment at NYU Leonard Stern School of Business.

Novo director must defend huge price increases: “I have many patients struggling to get advice”
Berlingske 04-09-19
[Doug Langa] completed an MBA at Fordham University in New York City around 1990 and graduated from the renowned American universities The Wharton School and Harvard Business School.

Legal Career Spotlight: TV News Correspondent to Divorce Attorney to Political Candidate
Vault 04-09-19
During a decades-long career as a news correspondent (most notably for CBS, WNBC-TV, and CNN) under her former name, [Kristen Prata] Browde earned her J.D. from Fordham Law School in 2000.

Gordon Brothers Names Leslie Zmugg General Counsel
EIN Presswire 04-09-19
[Leslie] Zmugg graduated from Fordham University School of Law and holds a bachelor’s in Philosophy from Binghamton University, both in New York.

What Do the Church’s Victims Deserve?
The New Yorker 04-08-19
When [Paul Elie] enrolled at Fordham University, in 1983, there were nearly a hundred Jesuits in residence, and [he]came to know a dozen of them, ranging in age from a septuagenarian English professor who was saving “Finnegans Wake” for Heaven to the “baby Jebbies,” in their twenties.

Member News — New Jersey Co-Managing Partner Char..
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey 04-08-19
Mr. [Charles F.] Kenny received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University and his law degree from Fordham Law School.

Takht-Ravanchi named Iran’s new UN ambassador
Iran Daily 04-08-19
[Majid] Takht-Ravanchi holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Kansas in Civil Engineering, a Master’s from Fordham University in International Political Economy and Development, and a PhD from the University of Bern in Political Science.

Ossining, NY Author Publishes Novel
Fox 40 WICZ 04-06-19
Beth A. Nigro graduated with a Masters Degree from Fordham University in New York, where she studied Animal Rights.

Meet the young women and men who drafted Congress manifesto for Lok Sabha elections
The Print 04-06-19
Rajeev Gowda, 55
Designation: Rajya Sabha MP and chairman of the AICC research department
Education: PhD (public policy and management) from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US, MA (economics) from Fordham University, US

DRESS FOR SUCCESS WESTERN MASS TO HOLD ANNUAL “COMMON THREADS” EVENT IN APRIL
Western Mass Women 04-06-19
[Ann Errichetti] is a graduate of Fordham University, and received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

Jerry Nadler Was Born to Battle Trump
New Republic 04-05-19
After Stuyvesant High, [Jerry Nadler] went to Columbia on a Pulitzer scholarship, and to law school at night at Fordham while serving in the New York State Assembly.

Andrea Lawlor: ‘I feel that every good thing in my life has come from being queer’
The Guardian 04-05-19
[Andrea] Lawlor went to Fordham university in the early 90s, and became involved with a lot of activism, from starting the first lesbian and gay group on campus, which earned them and their friends death threats, to participating in the “pink panther patrol”, which protected gay people in the Village at a time when it was infested with queerbashers.

Police are cracking down on distracted driving in Atlantic, Cape May counties
Press of Atlantic City 04-05-19
“He reached for his GPS and then hit Casey. He said he didn’t see her,” Feldman said of the accident that ended the life of Casey [Feldman], an aspiring television broadcaster who was studying at Fordham University in New York.

Progressive Club presents guest speaker for meeting
Sanibel Captiva Islander 04-04-19
[Arol I.] Buntzman holds a Bachelor of Science in real estate, Master in Business Administration from Arizona State University and Doctorate of Education in executive leadership programs form Fordham University.

Capital One Appoints Segal Managing Director, Market Manager for NY Metro Regional Commercial Banking Group
ABL Advisor 04-04-19
Wendy [Segal] earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MBA in accounting from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business.

Byram native completes BOLC
The Sparta Independent 04-04-19
[Frank] Cutrone graduated from Hilltop Country Day School (2010), Pope John High School (2014), and Fordham University (2018).

A Review of Judge Nathan’s Positions as Elon Musk’s Contempt Hearing Kicks Off
Real Money 04-04-19
Prior to donning the robes, [Judge Alison Nathan] began her career as a law clerk in the office of former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens before embarking on a career at a private practice and becoming a well respected law professor in New York at such prestigious institutions as Fordham University Law School and NYU Law.

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC Continues Expansion with New Hires
My San Antonio 04-04-19
Caleb [Davis] holds a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law, as well as a Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential School at the University of Texas.

Miracle In Rwanda a Spiritual Transformation That is Miraculous
Times Square Chronicles 04-09-19
Originally developed, written and performed by the New York actress Leslie Malaika Lewis, after 12 years the torch has been passed down to Malaika Uwamahoro, a Fordham University graduate and native Rwandan.

Play marks 25th anniversary of Rwandan massacre
New York Amsterdam News 04-04-19
Rwandan actress Malaika Uwamahoro (pronounced Mah-Like-ah Ooh-wam-ah-har-oh) earned a scholarship to Fordham University, where she studied Theater Arts.

Mayor de Blasio Appoints Three Judges to Family, Criminal and Civil Court
NYC 04-04-19
Judge [Jay] Weiner graduated from Dartmouth and received his law degree from Fordham Law School.

SynCardia Announces Promotion of Don Webber to CEO & Appointment of Peter Spadaro as President and CCO
PR Newswire 04-04-19
[Peter Spadaro] holds a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University.

OBITUARIES

Francis “Frank” Costello, 90, Of Hillsdale, NJ, Professor
Francis “Frank” Costello
Estes Park News 04-10-19
Frank earned Bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Fordham University.

Gerald Keegan, 64, Of Paterson, NJ, Judge
Paterson Municipal Court Judge Gerald Keegan has died
North Jersey Record 04-06-19
He graduated from Fordham University in 1976 and received his law degree from the New England School of Law in Boston in 1979.

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