At Encaenia, Pomp and Frivolity Embraced in Equal Measure
Accolades and jokes took centerstage at the Rose Hill Gym on May 17, as graduating…
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Passion for Plants Leads to Study of Green Roofs
“I’ve always loved biology. I was that kid outside collecting bugs and looking at the…
Road to Medicine Leads Through Urban Ecology
Erin Carter has plans to become a doctor someday to save lives. But before she…
A Day in the Wildlife: Among the Ecosystems and Ecologists at the Calder Center
At the Louis Calder Center, scientists explore ecological mysteries and study society’s impact on the…
Fordham Scientist Finds Cities Now a Major Factor in Species Evolution
Cities are not just hotbeds of human activity. They are also changing the way plants…
Calder Center at 50: Tracking Plant Evolution at Warp Speed
If you want to study how plants evolve, you need a space that you can…
Calder Center at 50: Seeking the Secrets on a Salamander’s Skin
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, also known as the chytrid fungus, is ravaging frog and salamander populations around…
Calder Center at 50: A Researcher Seeks to Better Understand Ticks
The black legged tic, aka Ixodes scapularis, does not typically elicit positive reactions from those…
Calder Symposium Takes On Bats, Fungi, and Climate Change
Merve Karakaya enrolled at Fordham knowing that she wanted become a physician, but as she…
Calder Center Celebrates 50 Years of Ecology Research
Fifty years after Fordham acquired the 113-acre Rockmoor estate in Armonk, New York, the Louis…