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Rams in the News: May 25, 2018

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
“A Rat Named Nemesis”
The New Yorker 05-19-18
As Jason Munshi-South, a biologist at Fordham University who collaborated on the Templeton Project, put it, “They are exquisitely evolved for what they do.”

Fordham softball, after starting season 1-10, prepares to face LSU in regional opener of NCAA tournament
New York Daily News 05-17-18
Fordham is looking to make its first NCAA Super Regional appearance.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

New York Today: Gold Medals and Gray Hair
The New York Times 05-17-18
[The bell that inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells” is] kept in a safe at Fordham University.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics ed. by Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov (review)
Project MUSE 05-18-18
Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics. Edited by Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, foreword by Eric Hayot. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. xvii + 477 pp. Hardcover $65.00.

ADMINISTRATORS

DAVID GIBSON
Popes’ styles may differ, but message is same, says former papal spokesman
Crux 05-17-18
Lombardi’s visible role as papal spokesman earned him the tongue-in-cheek nickname “Microphone for God,” according to David Gibson, director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, which hosted the event.

SCHOOL OF LAW

Even Minority Interest in a Competitor Could Violate Antitrust Laws
JD Supra 05-22-18
This deal reportedly was the subject of remarks by acting director of the FTC’s competition bureau, Bruce Hoffman, on May 2, 2018, at a conference hosted by Fordham University Law School.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

JERRY H. GOLDFEDER
New York City should expand voting rights as part of charter revision
City & State New York 05-14-18
[Jerry H. Goldfeder] teaches election law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Fordham Law School and he served as special counsel for public integrity to then-Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.

KAREN J. GREENBERG
No ISIS-related charges in months as terror recruitment dries up in U.S.
The Washington Times 05-16-18
“Compared to all the years in the past, we’ve never gone through 4½ months like this,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law.

KAREN J. GREENBERG
The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Assault on Our Words
The Nation 05-17-18
Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Exploring Attorney General Run, Zephyr Teachout Pursues Working Families Nomination, Democratic Ballot Line
Gotham Gazette 05-17-18
One is Zephyr Teachout, the law professor who challenged Governor Andrew Cuomo from the left in the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial primary, who quickly said she was forming an exploratory committee.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Dem candidate for NY AG open to prosecute Trump aides if pardoned
MSNBC 05-17-18
Zephyr Teachout is a guest on The Beat with Ari Melber.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
AG Selection Process Continues
Spectrum News 05-19-18
Zephyr Teachout is expected to enter the attorney general race.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Democrats Will Finally Do What Clinton Couldn’t: Attack Trump’s Corruption
Vice 05-22-18
“You’ve gotta actually change the machine, not just how well we see the machine,” Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham law professor and anti-corruption crusader who ran for New York governor in 2014 and Congress in 2016 (and is currently running for state attorney general), told me.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Donald Trump’s presidency has hit remarkable new heights of corruption — and most of it is legal
Salon.com 05-23-18
In a corrupt system, the line between legal and illegal becomes increasingly blurred, and some conduct that may have been considered corrupt and criminal throughout most of American history has become perfectly legal today — as Zephyr Teachout, law professor at Fordham University, revealed in her book, “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United”.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
Humans of Fashion Foundation will present its global initiative at FT Business of Luxury Summit Venice, Italy May 20-23, 2018
PR Newswire 05-17-18
Speakers include Susan Scafidi, Founder and Academic Director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School (www.fashionlawinstitute.com) and Model/Entrepreneur/Actress Toni Garrn, founder of the Toni Garrn Foundation www.tonigarrnfoundation.org.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
Europe sticks its thumb in Trump’s eye
CNN 05-18-18
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of its Red Lines Project, is a contributor to CNN and columnist for USA Today.

BRUCE A. GREEN
By Demanding an Investigation, Trump Challenged a Constraint on His Power
The New York Times 05-21-18
Still, senior law enforcement officials appointed by Mr. Trump already knew what steps the department took in 2016 and had not previously deemed those facts a sufficient basis to open an investigation, noted Bruce Green, a Fordham University law professor who wrote the article with Ms. Roiphe.

JEFFREY A. TREXLER
Is Victoria’s Secret Stealing Their Competitors’ Ideas?
InStyle 05-22-18
According to Jeff Trexler, Associate Director at Fordham Law School’s Fashion Law Institute, a legal claim would be something of a stretch.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

MARK CONRAD
Mark Conrad on Legalization of Sports Gambling
i24 News 05-16-18
Mark Conrad, the director of the Sports Business Program at Fordham University discusses the pros and cons of the SCOTUS decision to lift the ban on sports gambling with i24NEWS’ David Shuster.

BAOLIAN WANG
CFP Board Calls For Academic, Research Papers
Financial Advisor 05-17-18
The TD Ameritrade Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance – Cary Frydman of University of Southern California and Baolian Wang of Fordham University, for “The Impact of Salience on Investor Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.”

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY

JORDAN E. DEVYLDER
Urbanicity may not increase risk for psychosis in lower income countries
Healio 05-17-18
“Most studies of urbanicity and psychosis have been conducted in high-income countries in Europe or North America or in Australia. The association between urbanicity and psychosis is understudied in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), although LMICs are home to greater than 80% of the world’s population,”Jordan E. DeVylder, PhD, of the Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, and colleagues wrote.

FORMER ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

MICHAEL LATHAM
Punahou selects 1986 alumnus as next school president
Honolulu Star-Advertiser 05-17-18
[Mike Latham] previously served as a history professor and later dean of Fordham University’s College at Rose Hill in New York.

PHYLICIA RASHAD
Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes Moderates a Conversation with Phylicia and Condola Rashad
Mogul 05-22-18
Respected in the academic world, Ms.[Phylicia] Rashad was the first recipient of the Denzel Washington Chair in Theater at Fordham University, and has served as Master Teacher in the Ten Chimney’s Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

CELIA B. FISHER
Patient Left No End-of-Life Wishes? Surrogates Need Ethicists’ Help
AHC Media 05-01-18
Celia B. Fisher, PhD, co-authored a study looking at surrogates who had to give permission to withdraw life-sustaining interventions with loved ones who had, or did not have, DNRs.

CHRISTIANA ZENNER
Deny CUP
The Independent 05-17-18
Christiana Zenner, professor of water ethics at Fordham University states “So much of the agricultural and industrial and domestic use of fresh water has been built on groundwater supplies; those groundwater supplies were viewed as renewable for most of the 20th century…[”]

CHRISTINA GREER
Black Women Are Rising Up in Politics Nationwide… But What About New York?
Observer 05-18-18
Dr. Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, told Observer the Democratic Party likes black female votes but that it does not mean they like black female voices at the table.

CHRISTINA GREER
New York has a new interim attorney general
Vox 05-22-18
“There’s just been so many scandals out of Albany. And when I say scandals, I mean political, financial, and sexual in nature, and of the many, many New York politicos who’ve gone to prison or lost their jobs, almost all have been men,” Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham University, told me.

JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
“A Rat Named Nemesis”
The New Yorker 05-19-18
As Jason Munshi-South, a biologist at Fordham University who collaborated on the Templeton Project, put it, “They are exquisitely evolved for what they do.”

DICKSON M. DESPOMMIER
Vertical farming: growing vegetables in skyscrapers
derStandard.de 05-22-18
Despommier : That’s exactly what I’m doing for my students at Fordham University.
[Translated from German]

STEVEN B. STOLL
Appalachia isn’t all white, all poor, all passive
National Catholic Reporter 05-23-18
[Steven B.] Stoll, a Fordham University historian, argues in Ramp Hollow that the classic portrayal of Appalachia, revived by Vance, as a preserve of “yesterday’s people” won’t do.

GARRETT M. BROAD
The Wrong Animal Welfare Debate
The Breakthrough 05-22-18
Garrett M. Broad is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University.

STUDENTS

Community Events Calendar ~ 5/19/18-5/26/18
Town of Bedford 05-11-18
Carol Henger, PhD Candidate at Fordham University, studies and tracks New York City’s urban and suburban coyotes by examining DNA from their scat.

2017 Mark of Excellence National Winners and Finalists
SPJ.org 05-21-18
National Finalist: Jack McLoone and Alvin Halimwidjaya, Fordham University

2017 Mark of Excellence National Winners and Finalist
SPJ.org 05-21-18
National Winner[:]Strike a chord: Addiction series [,] Jonathan Woodward, Fordham University

ATHLETICS

Raynham’s Madi Shaw back in the NCAA softball tournament
The Enterprise 05-17-18
For the fourth time since arriving at Fordham University in New York, senior infielder Madi Shaw of Raynham is part of a team that has reached the NCAAs.

Fordham softball, after starting season 1-10, prepares to face LSU in regional opener of NCAA tournament
New York Daily News 05-17-18
Fordham is looking to make its first NCAA Super Regional appearance.

ALUMNI

Grant Thornton Managing Principal Jim Peko named ‘Top 25 Consultant’
Grant Thornton 05-17-18
[Jim Peko] received a master’s of business administration degree in finance from Fordham University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from St. Peter’s College.

Artistic Director Robert Battle Announces Exciting Highlights To Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Lincoln Center Season
BroadwayWorld.com 05-17-18
Courtney Celeste Spears, who was born in the Bahamas and raised in Baltimore, MD, is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, and was the recipient of a 2015 Princess Grace Award.

Artistic Director Robert Battle Announces Exciting Highlights To Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Lincoln Center Season
BroadwayWorld.com 05-17-18
An August, GA native, Christopher R. Wilson was a scholarship student in the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and just completed his second year with Ailey II.

Luis Robles’ consecutive starts streak will end on Sunday
Yahoo! Sports 05-19-18
[Ryan] Meara has made just one league start since losing his starting role to Robles in 2012, however, that appearance came in 2015 when the Fordham University product was on loan at New York City FC.

New York Firefighter Honors Ten Fallen First Responders with New Book
PR Web 05-21-18
After retiring [James J. O’Donnell] earned his bachelor’s degree in religious studies from St. Joseph’s College, and he went on to earn his master’s degree from Fordham University, where he studied theology and religious education.

Dr. Danica Miller awarded 2017–2018 Distinguished Teaching Award
The Tacoma Ledger 05-21-18
Before receiving her Ph.D. in English from Fordham University, Dr. [Danica] Miller attended school in Fife and grew up on one of the last allotments of the Puyallup Reservation.

OBITUARIES

Eleanor McNeal Scott, 75, Of Harlem, NY, former police officer and entrepreneur
Eleanor McNeal Scott passes on
New York Amsterdam News 05-17-18
[Eleanor McNeal Scott] graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University.

Camilo Gregorio, 78, Of the Philippines, retired bishop
Batanes Bishop Emeritus Camilo Gregorio dies
CBCP News 05-21-18
[Camilo Gregorio] also has a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas in Rome and a master’s degree in educational administration at Fordham University in New York.

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