CLIPS OF THE WEEK

JOSEPH M. MCSHANE, S.J.
NYC chills out as mayor unveils $106M Cool Neighborhoods program
The Bond Buyer 06-14-17
“With all the ills of the world that call for repair and redress, combating climate change may be the great work of our time,” said Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University.
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The top 10 U.S. colleges for a major in social work
USA Today 06-11-17
5. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY – BRONX, N.Y.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Fordham University School of Professional and Continuing Studies Presents: “7 Practical Tips for Digital and Social Marketing Success”
NBC12.com 06-13-17
Fordham University’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies (PCS) and the New York State Small Business Development Center will present “7 Practical Tips for Digital and Social Marketing Success” on Wednesday, June 21 at 6 p.m. in room 228 at Fordham’s Westchester campus in West Harrison.

CONTINUING COMMITMENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION: JESUIT UNIVERSITIES JOIN EFFORTS IN AFTERMATH OF U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM PARIS AGREEMENT
IgnatianSolidarity.net 06-12-17
The presidents of College of the Holy Cross, Fordham University, Le Moyne College, Loyola University Chicago, Loyola University New Orleans, Saint Peter’s University, Seattle University, and the University of San Francisco have signed on to We Are Still In, a statement uniting more than 1,200 governors, mayors, businesses, investors, and colleges and universities declaring their intent to continue to ensure that the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing carbon emissions.

Hot summer forcing city to extend beach season again
New York Post 06-13-17
Members of the de Blasio administration are expected to host a press conference Wednesday at Fordham University to roll out a $106 million program that they said in a media advisory is “designed to curb the effect of extreme heat, and protect against the worst effects of rising temperatures from climate change.”

NYC’s heat-affected neighborhoods will get help from the city this summer
Curbed New York 06-14-17
The city has announced a new comprehensive resiliency program [with Fordham University]aimed at reducing the impacts of heat in some of the neighborhoods most affected by the summertime rise in temperature.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

“The Future Life of Trauma”
Heppas.blogspot.com 06-13-17
New from Fordham University Press: The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition by Jennifer Yusin.

“Sodomscapes: Hospitality in the Flesh”
NewReads.blogspot.com 06-15-17
New from Fordham University Press: Sodomscapes: Hospitality in the Flesh by Lowell Gallagher.

ADMINISTRATION

JOSEPH M. MCSHANE, S.J.
NYC chills out as mayor unveils $106M Cool Neighborhoods program
The Bond Buyer 06-14-17
“With all the ills of the world that call for repair and redress, combating climate change may be the great work of our time,” said Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University.
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ARIEL FISHMAN
New York Blood Center Announces New Trustees
Fox8live.com 06-13-17
Dr. Fishman, currently Assistant Vice President of Academic Program Planning at Fordham University and a self-employed Analytics/Management Consultant, is a motivational speaker and volunteer on behalf of NYBC, advocating for blood donation following his recovery from serious injuries in a motor vehicle accident in 2012.

LESLEY MASSIAH-ARTHUR
Cool Neighborhoods plan to tackle rising temps with white roofs, more trees
am New York 06-14-17
Lesley Massiah-Arthur, Fordham’s associate vice president of government relations and urban affairs, said the school will cover five more buildings on its Bronx campus soon, saying such steps will help the college work toward its goal of reducing the campus’ carbon footprint by 30%.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

CFA Society New York Celebrates Benjamin Graham and 80th Anniversary
NBC12.com 06-12-17
On Tuesday, June 20th, join CFA Society New York—formerly known as New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA)—for Ben Graham Value Conference IV at Fordham University’s Gabelli Center.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE

The top 10 U.S. colleges for a major in social work
USA Today 06-11-17
5. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY – BRONX, N.Y.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

JED SHUGERMAN
‘A very damaging day for President Trump’: James Comey’s blockbuster hearing had something in it for everyone
Business Insider 06-08-17
Jed Shugerman, a Fordham law professor, told Business Insider in an email that Republicans’ claims in the aftermath of the Comey hearing were “not good-faith arguments” based on the testimony.

JED SHUGERMAN
Attorney General Jeff Sessions May Testify
Bloomberg 06-11-17
President Trump slammed James Comey, days after the fired FBI director’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Fordham University Law Professor Jed Shugerman weighs in on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia.”

JED SHUGERMAN
D.C. and Maryland AGs: Trump ‘flagrantly violating’ emoluments clause
The Washington Post 06-12-17
Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham University, said he believes D.C. and Maryland have a strong argument to make that the case should proceed and that federal courts should establish a “bright line” for presidents as to what constitutes an emoluments violation.

JED SHUGERMAN
The Man Behind Trump’s Voter Fraud Obsession
The New York Times 06-13-17
Jed Shugerman, a legal historian at Fordham Law School, attended a debate at Yale as an undergraduate in which Kobach defended Prop. 187.

JED SHUGERMAN
Maryland, District of Columbia sue over payments to Trump hotels
Reuters 06-12-17
Fordham Law School Professor Jed Shugerman said state governments’ special duty to protect their citizens means they face a lower bar to standing in federal court, and the AG lawsuit should proceed.

ANDREW KENT
The Most Troubling Part Of James Comey’s Testimony
Fortune 06-08-17
Andrew Kent is a professor of law at Fordham University School of Law in New York City.

ANDREW KENT
Over The Line
Vice 06-09-17
Fordham Law professor Andrew Kent, who has studied the case, thinks it’s unlikely that the court will limit its ruling in that way and shares Roberts’ concern.

ANDREW KENT
NSA Chief Meets in Secret With Senate Panel Ahead of Sessions
Bloomberg 06-12-17
That’s a sign that even with the renewed scrutiny on the Comey-Russia crisis, the impact to Sessions’s agenda and Justice Department operations could be minimal, said Andrew Kent, a law professor at Fordham University in New York.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
People’s Summit Kicks Off: Moving ‘Beyond Resistance’ to Forge Just World in Trump Era
CommonDreams.org 06-09-17
Other speakers include noted filmmaker Josh Fox, Democracy Now! co-host Amy Goodman, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), political commentator Van Jones, Linda Sarsour of the Arab-American Association, Zephry Teachout of Fordham University, and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Early voting in NY? Reformers make last-ditch push
Ithaca Journal 06-13-17
Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for a congressional seat in the Hudson Valley last year, said New York should be “leading the country, not in the bottom of the country” when it comes to voter turnout.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
The Ezra Klein Show 06-13-17
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University, the author of Corruption in America, one of the lead lawyers in the emoluments case that’s been brought against Donald Trump, and a former gubernatorial and congressional candidate.

KAREN GREENBERG
This Country Resisted ISIS, But Now…
Ozy.com 06-11-17
Relying purely on law enforcement would always be a “reactive approach,” says Karen Greenberg, director of the Center for National Security at Fordham University’s School of Law, especially when dealing with young men and women.

KAREN GREENBERG
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, A Planet’s Future Threatened by the Fate of Its Children
TomDispatch.com 06-15-17
Posted by Karen J. Greenberg

SUSAN SCAFIDI
Is social media the new court of law for fashion copycats?
MarketWatch 06-10-17
“Most of the time, however, indie designers have little legal protection and instead have to appeal to social norms against copying,” said Fordham University law professor and fashion legal expert Susan Scafidi.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
7 Signs You Are Buying a Counterfeit Product
Kiplinger June 2017
“Not only can the external appearance of an item be copied, but so can the internal serial numbers and authenticity cards,” warns Susan Scafidi, founder and academic director of the Fordham University School of Law’s Fashion Law Institute program.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
The New York Times 06-14-17
Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University, defines it as “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission.”

BRUCE A. GREEN
When it comes to pricing, where should law firms draw the line on contract lawyers?
ThePosseList.com 06-11-17
No hard-and-fast rules are necessary for how law firms handle disclosure and upcharges to clients for contracted lawyers, according to Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics.

BRUCE A. GREEN
Are Systemic Legal Problems Like Public Health Problems? (Perspective)
Bloomberg Law 06-09-17
Editor’s Note: The author is the Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics.

TANYA HERNANDEZ
What the“Loving Day” 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Loving v. Virginia Court Decision Really Need – A Challenge to Ongoing White Supremacy
Huffington Post 06-11-17
Tanya Katerí Hernández is a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and the author of the forthcoming book from NYU Press, “Multiracials and Civil Rights: Are Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination a New Kind of Multiracial Racism.”

SHEILA FOSTER
New Videos Explore the Political Potential of the Commons
Shareable.net 06-13-17
More recently, it began a collaboration with Fordham University headed by Professor Sheila Foster, and experiments in Amsterdam and New York City.

LAWRENCE B. BRENNAN
Iran has found a new way to mess with the US Navy
Business Insider 06-15-17
“Perhaps this was a probing effort by Iran to determine US response and the rules of engagement,” Lawrence Brennan, a former US Navy captain and an expert of maritime law at Fordham University, told Business Insider.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY

JENNIE PARK-TAYLOR
Broadway’s Sneak Peek Into Suicide and the Secret Life of Adolescents
BroadwayWorld.com 06-09-17
Jennie Park-Taylor is associate professor of counseling psychology at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education.

MERLE KEITEL
Broadway’s Sneak Peek Into Suicide and the Secret Life of Adolescents
BroadwayWorld.com 06-09-17
Merle Keitel is a professor of counseling and counseling psychology at Fordham University.

WILLIAM F. BAKER
Future of Public TV News? ‘There is an answer to be found in Germany’
Current 06-15-17
By William F. Baker
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ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

GARRETT BROAD
Want to help animals? Don’t forget the chickens
The Conversation 06-08-17
By Garrett M. Broad, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University

COSTAS PANAGOPOULOS
What the Fuzz? Unpacking the folksy rhetoric of the Comey testimony
Mic 06-08-17
“The danger to speaking in very professional — kind of for lack of a better word, boring — language is that people won’t listen or it won’t convey the kind of effect that someone wants it to convey,” Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science and director of Fordham University’s Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy, said in an interview.

JOSEPH W. KOTERSKI, S.J.
Sacrifices of Catholic priests in Dachau concentration camp recounted in new book from Ignatius Press
CatholicMom.com 06-09-17
“This book is an invaluable addition to the literature on the Holocaust,” says Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

EVON HEKKALA
A Lizard Lost at Sea Makes its Return
The New Yorker 06-09-17
“There are going to be a lot of resurrected species in the future,” Evon Hekkala, a biologist at Fordham University who has reinstated several reptiles, said.

CHRISTIANA PEPPARD
Theologians blast Paris Agreement withdrawal, call for creation care
National Catholic Reporter 06-13-17
In her keynote address on the topic of water and an “ethic of aridity,” Christiana Zenner Peppard of Fordham University said she would have liked Francis to have cited at least one of the many communities of women religious whose have long worked toward environmental justice.

CHRISTINA GREER
Next 100 Days: NY Pols Pressed to Go Beyond Rhetoric in Resisting Trump
CityLimits.org 06-14-17
Dr. Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham University, says she thinks there was a mentality among lawmakers at first that Trump might not be so harsh on New York because it’s his home state.

CHRISTINA GREER
Happy Father’s Day
New York Amsterdam News 06-15-17
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” and the host of The Aftermath on Ozy.com.

SAUL CORNELL
After Congressional Baseball Shooting, We Need To Talk About Gun Control
WBUR 06-15-17
Early America lived by that modifier, Fordham University historian Saul Cornell says: “For instance, starting in the colonial period, states enacted a variety of ‘safe-storage’ measures to deal with the danger posed by stored gunpowder.

ATHLETICS

Fourteen athletes from Greenwich to play college football
GreenwichTime.com 06-09-17
Paul Williams, who played linebacker and was the Cardinals’ long-snapper, will join Fordham University’s Division I program.

STUDENTS

Rotary Celebrates Young Authors, Entrepreneurs and Diversity
TapInto.net 06-09-17
Now, at 20 and 19, [Michael and Marc Guberti] are successful social media strategists, and are enrolled in Fordham University—while teaching there.

Press welcomes new summer interns
The Riverdale Press 06-09-17
[Zefei] Dong, a graduate student at Fordham University, will spend time as a marketing intern.

Star Studded Luncheon to Celebrate 14 deserving New York Tri-State Area Ronald McDonald House Charities African American Future Achievers scholarship recipients
WAFB.com 06-14-17
The following students will receive $16,000 over four years: Ryan Emmanuel from Cristo Rey High School, will attend Fordham University

South shore winners of college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships
The New Orleans Advocate 06-14-17
John A. Quaglino, of Jesuit High School, who plans to study diplomatic service at Fordham University in New York; John R. Steib, of Jesuit High School, who plans to study finance at Fordham University

Fund This: ‘The Art Thief’ Contemplates Contemporary Painting With A Side Of Wit
TubeFilter.com 06-14-17
[Rebeca] Castilho is a student at Fordham University who hails from Brazil, making this the second week in a row we’ve highlighted a crowdfunding project tied to a college campus.

ALUMNI

Blue Apron Elects Brian Kelley to the Board of Directors
CityBizList.com 06-08-17
[Felise Glantz] Kissell received a bachelor’s degree in Government from Colby College and an Executive MBA from Fordham University.

CT Arts Alliance Appoints New Administrator
STartsalliance.org 06-09-17
[Darren Farrington] is also a non-practicing attorney with a degree from Fordham University School of Law, and his past practice included entertainment law, commercial litigation, and appeals.

Terry Ahearn and Stuart Bartow join Lewis Roca
IPwatchdog.com 06-11-17
[Terry Ahearn] received his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and his B.A. from Fordham University.

Pryor Cashman Names Alberts Co-Chair of Financial Institutions Group, Adds Five New Associates
WFXG.com 06-12-17
In addition, Pryor Cashman is pleased to announce the addition of five new associates who have joined the Financial Institutions Group in 2017: Ingrid He, Fordham University School of Law J.D., cum laude, ’12

In Memoriam: Watch This Moving Tribute To The Broadway Stars We Lost This Year
The Tony Awards via YouTube 06-11-17
The Tony Awards “In Memoriam” tribute features Fordham alumnus Kevin Smith Kirkwood, FCRH ’99.

Baseball: Former Columbia star Jimmy Murphy picked by Orioles in 8th round of MLB Draft
NJ.com 06-13-17
Murphy, a recent Fordham University graduate, was 6-7 for the Rams this spring with a 2.59 ERA.

American Theater Group Stages Reading of New Play LEVITY
BroadwayWorld.com 06-13-17
[Stephanie DiMaggio] is a graduate of Fordham University and NYU’s famed Graduate Acting Program.

Leumi Expands Legal Team with Three Strategic Hires
Spoke.com 06-14-17
[Gerri] Alfino received her Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law and Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Town To Tap Bridgeport-Based Land Use Attorney for Advice on ‘Sober House’ Appeal
Martindale.com 06-13-17
A graduate of Fordham University School of Law, [Patricia] Sullivan is a principal and co-chair of Cohen and Wolf’s “Land Use Group,” according to the firm’s website.

OBITUARIES

Doris T. Dolan, 91, Of Southampton, NJ, teacher
Doris T. Dolan, 91
MyVeronaNJ.com 06-14-17
She earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of New Rochelle and attended Fordham University Graduate School.

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