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Carole Cox, Ph.D., GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE, professor of social work, was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.  

Norrinda Brown, Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Director of Clinical Programs, FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL, was honored with the 2025 M. Shanara Gilbert Award by the Association of American Law Schools on April 27. The award recognizes her outstanding contributions to clinical practice and legal education.

Joshua Schrier, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, Kim B. & Stephen E. Bepler Chair Professor of Chemistry, co-authored the perspective article “Science Acceleration and Accessibility with Self-Driving Labs,” published April 24 in Nature Communications. 

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Annie George-Puskar, Ph.D., GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, assistant professor of curriculum and teaching, was awarded the Spencer Foundation Vision Grant, a research planning grant that supports innovative interdisciplinary research on education.

Michael Peppard, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology, was interviewed on the Commonweal podcast in the episode “When the Good Book Isn’t a Book,” released on March 27.

Daniel Willner, ARTS AND SCIENCES, adjunct professor of visual arts, was selected as the 2025 Larry Lederman Photography Fellow at the New York Botanical Garden. The grant is awarded annually to an established or emerging photographer whose work demonstrates excellence and a creative approach to the art of landscape photography. Over the next nine months, he will complete a photographic study of the garden and the Bronx River. The resulting project will be presented to the Mertz Library at the end of the term.

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Anthony Berry, FitzSimons Civics and Civility Fellow, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, was accepted into Fordham Law School. He will begin his studies in the fall.

Kim Diamond, FORDHAM SCHOOL OF LAW, adjunct professor of law, was recognized for her contributions to environmental advocacy in the article, “Everyone Wins with Clean Storm Drains,” featured in the Spring 2025 Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions report.

Carl Fischer, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of Spanish, received a Thyssen fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) in Essen, Germany.

Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology and the Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, was a guest on an episode of the Inside the Vatican podcast, “Deep Dive: The Council of Nicaea and the Struggle for a Common Date of Easter,” released on April 10. 

Congratulations to the 2025 Beacon Exemplar Award recipients, honored in the following categories organized by students:

Academic Affairs

Aniko DeLaney, Mathias Klang, Sara Wilkerson

Deans and Administrators

Rachel Annunziato, Michele Burris, Arielle Duran, Keith Eldredge, Omar Elnawawy, Angela Flynn, Cathy Gonzalez, Ashala Jones, Rachel Kartiganer, Mark Less, Maura Mast, Catharine A. McGlade, Esther Morgan, Brittany Perez, Christopher Rogers, Lexi Spera, Tania Tetlow

Dining Services

Emmanuel Acheampong, Juan Adames, Brandon Austin, Tyrone Beau, Udaya Bharatha Hettiarachchi, Estella Mile, Machin Mojica, Sheeka Wilson, Hongjun Wang

Facilities

Yodelka Salcedo

Faculty

Thomas Beck, Ernest Butcher, Rose Dara, Diane Detournay, Sandra Eerhart, Diane Fariello, Kaare Gjaldbaek, Michael (Zhe) Guo, M. Gaby Hurtarte Leon, Peter Johnson, Beth Knobel, Gage Krause, Hill Krishnan, Mohammad Nejad, Michael Peppard, Justin Pool, Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina, Vicente Rubio, Lise Schreier, Dawn Silvestri, Meg Stapleton Smith, Angelina Tallaj, Nicholas Tampio, Barry Wilner, Tim Wood

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Mark Conrad, Ph.D., GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, professor of law and ethics, published the article “Stopping the Spread of the World’s Oldest Hatred: What U.S. Sports Stakeholders Can Do to Combat Antisemitism” in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal.

Judith M. Green, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of philosophy, delivered a talk titled “Actively Pursuing Positive Peace,” at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy at Howard University on March 15.

Erick Rengifo Minaya, Ph.D., GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, professor of finance and business economics, coauthored the article “Can Digital Transformation Enhance Firms’ Export Technological Sophistication? Evidence from China,” published in Applied Economics Letters on Jan. 4. 

Dana Roberson, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, adjunct professor in the public media M.A. program, was recently appointed general manager of THIRTEEN and production operations, effective April 1.

Joshua Schrier, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, Kim B. & Stephen E. Bepler Chair Professor of Chemistry, presented two talks, “Large Language Models for Solid-State Synthesis Predictions and Explanations” and “Can You Help ChatGPT Get an ‘A’ in Organic Chemistry?: Teaching Patterns of Effective Use of Large Language Models for Modeling Reactions,” at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 National Meeting in San Diego, held from March 23 – 27.

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Danielle Daschner, MALONEY LAW LIBRARY, Head of Instructional Services, published “’Restating’ the Record: Evaluating ALI’s Aided-by-Agency Disclaimer” in Law Library Journal on Feb. 13. 

Anne Fernald, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of English, gave a talk titled “Looking Differently: Mrs. Dalloway at 100” at the English Research Seminar Series at Hong Kong University on March 20.

Sertan Kabadayi, Ph.D., GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, professor of marketing, was named co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Service Management on March 1. 

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Ph.D., CURRAN CENTER FOR AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDIES, associate director, was the 2025 speaker in the Valente-Blihar Families Distinguished Poet Series at St. Peter’s University in New Jersey on March 13. 

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Aaron Hollander, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, adjunct professor of theology, has been promoted to become the first lay director of the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute, a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. 

Carey Kasten, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Initiative on Migrants, Migration and Human Dignity, was a coauthor of “Accompaniment as Institutional Practice: A Transdisciplinary Initiative Bridging Fordham University and the US-Mexico Border” in Best Practices in Jesuit Education published in February. 

She also published “A Ruined Peace: Memorials, Youth and the Francoist Celebration of XXV Años de Paz” in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies on Feb. 17. 

Kelly Roberts, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, adjunct professor of English, was invited to serve as a resident writing mentor in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ+ Writers in Schools Program. From March to April, she will lead a writing workshop for LGBTQ+ high schoolers, supporting them as they develop an original piece to be included in a city-wide anthology of student writing. 

Lance Strate, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of communication and media studies, was a guest on the podcast Your Undivided Attention, episode 105, “The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking,” on March 6.

He also published the article, “The Shield of Perseus” in the journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 81, No. 1.

Larry Welborn, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of theology, published “To Repoliticize Paul: 1 Corinthians 11:19 and a Subterranean Stream of Greek Political Thought,” in the journal Novum Testamentum on March 6.

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Dean McKay, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of psychology, published the chapters “Anxiety Disorders” and “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder” in the book Science-Based Therapy: Raising the Bar for Empirically Supported Treatments, published by Cambridge University Press on Jan. 10.

He also testified before the Washington State Senate on Feb. 13 in opposition to a bill to permit psychologists to prescribe medications, a result of a critical commentary paper he lead-authored titled “Suicide Risk, Psychosocial Interventions, and the Proper Role of Psychopharmacological Agents: A Comment on Hughes et al.” (2023) to be published in Professional Psychology: Research & Practice.

Michele Prettyman, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES, assistant professor of communication and media studies, published her article “Woman, Alone? Camille Billops, Self-Possession, and Older Women and Love (1987)” in the winter issue of the Feminist Media Histories Journal on Jan.1. 

Samantha Stone, ARTS AND SCIENCES, adjunct professor of English, published a children’s picture book, The Kitchen Magician, on Jan. 30.