The 2025 Law Power 100
City & State New York 03-03-2025
Jerry Goldfeder: A professor at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Voting Rights and Democracy Law Project, Goldfeder is a go-to campaign attorney with an encyclopedic knowledge of New York election law.

Joseph Landau–Dean, Fordham University School of Law: Joseph Landau became the new dean of Fordham University School of Law last year, the 12th person to hold the role and first LGBTQ+ individual to lead the Upper West Side law school. Previously, Landau was the school’s associate dean for academic affairs for three years and a faculty member starting in 2010.

Who’s Who in Emerging Tech
City & State New York 02-24-2025
Anand Padmanabhan has built a career transforming information technology ecosystems into agile, future-ready infrastructures. As Fordham University’s chief information officer, he has led an initiative to shift 85% of operations to the cloud. His experience – from shaping IT strategies at Whittle School & Studios to leading transformation at The New School – makes him a top leader in education technology. His goal is to simplify technology for users, streamlining IT services, enhancing research capabilities and scaling resources efficiently.

The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history
The Associated Press 03-05-2025
As South Carolina plans to carry our the first firing squad execution in 15 years in the United States, Professor Deborah Denno of the Fordham School of Law talks about the history of the unusual method to carry out the death penalty, currently only authorized in five states.
This interview was picked up by ABC News, MSN, U.S. News & World Report, AOL, and Denno was also quoted about firing squads in The Associated Press, USA Today, NBC News, The Mirror, The Post and Courier, and Straight Arrow News.

Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
The Associated Press 03-10-2025
[Karen] Ortiz received her undergraduate degree at Columbia University and her law degree at Fordham University. She knew she wanted to become a judge ever since her high school mock trial as a Supreme Court justice. Civil rights has been a throughline in her career, and Ortiz said she was “super excited” when she landed her job at the EEOC. “This is how I wanted to finish up my career,” she said. “We’ll see if that happens.”
This article was picked up by ABC News, MSN, Yahoo! News, AOL, U.S. News & World Report, The Independent, Fortune, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Denver Gazette, MarketBeat, Newsday, and Audacy.

On an Itchy Dorm Room Couch, They Finally Broke the Ice
The New York Times 03-07-2025
Mayarita Jade Castillo and Jalen Lashay Glenn didn’t exactly hit it off when they met at the birthday party of a mutual friend in September 2013. Both were sophomores at Fordham University, and Mr. Glenn, known for his gregarious personality, attempted to chat with the more reserved Ms. Castillo.
This article was picked up by DNYUZ.

New Yorkers Stressed by Prices Now Face Higher Electricity Bills
Bloomberg 03-05-2025
“When it comes to inflation, New Yorkers are going through the same thing everyone else is, only worse,” said Giacomo Santangelo, an economics professor at Fordham University. “Con Ed making an announcement that they’re going to increase costs only makes things worse.”
This article was picked up by Yahoo! Finance.

Federal Worker Firings Could Imperil the Economy. But the Damage Is Yet to Be Seen in the Data
U.S. News & World Report 03-05-2025
“Despite President Trump’s rhetoric on bolstering domestic drilling and supporting American workers, his administration’s policy decisions have paradoxically led to job losses in key sectors,” said Giacomo Santangelo, an economist at Monster.com who is also a senior lecturer and director of the international political economy program at Fordham University.
This article was picked up by MSN.

The Dems’ ‘Let’s All Wear Pink’ Stunt Fell Painfully Flat. Here’s Why.
Huff Post 03-05-2025
When played right, color coordination can be powerful. When you’re not empowered to speak, fashion can speak volumes, said Susan Scafidi, a professor, and founder and director of Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School. “On an evening when the members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus have no microphone, their collective splash of bright fuchsia in the House Chamber at least reminds viewers of their existence every time the camera pans across the room,” Scafidi told HuffPost.
This article was picked up by MSN.

How Much Has Cuomo Scrambled the Mayoral Race?
New York Magazine: Intelligencer 03-10-2025
“You know, Trump, Cuomo, Adams ‘can’t play in the sandbox well with others,’ ‘a lot of potential to do good, but they choose not to.’ There are a lot of conversations that could link the three in their quasi-similar personality styles at times. It’ll be interesting to see if that’s a strategy that some candidates go for or if it’s something else,” said Dr. Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University.

Shareholders are showing signs of DEI fatigue as activists push for more votes
Yahoo! Finance 03-08-2025
Fordham University School of Law professor Atinuke Adediran said “it’s coming from all sides.” Adediran — who researches reputation, financial, and social risks related to corporate race policies — expects that “most anti-DEI proposals are likely to be turned down, as they were before.”
This article was picked up by AOL.

How Trump’s Tariffs Are Ushering In A New World Order
Forbes 03-04-2025
“There’s lots of reasons you buy things, and most businesses are to some degree always on the lookout for a cheaper, better way to do things. That’s standard business practice. Now, all of a sudden, there’s a new administration and we’re talking tariffs. Everybody is starting to look for alternatives. If those exist in the U.S., that company supplier may benefit from that. But you have to ask yourself, well, why wasn’t the customer in this case already buying American?,” said Paul Johnson, executive director of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.

Trump Law Firm Attacks Inflict Pain, Even on Shaky Legal Ground
Bloomberg Law 03-10-2025
Perkins Coie plans to challenge the “patently unlawful” order, the firm said in a March 6 statement. It will have a strong case against the “arbitrary and capricious” directive, said Bruce Green, a legal ethics professor at Fordham Law School. “This violates those parties’ right to legal assistance from lawyers of their choosing as well as to a fair opportunity to contract with the government,” Green said. The order also violates the firm’s due process rights, according to Green.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Returns to Detroit, With Dancer Jacquelin Harris Celebrating Family and Performance Roots
Michigan Chronicle 03-04-2025
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is set to bring its electrifying performances to Detroit, where dancer Jacquelin Harris, a North Carolina native with deep family roots in the city, prepares to take the stage in her home away from home. As part of the company’s 2025 coast-to-coast U.S. tour, Harris will perform in Detroit from March 14-16, during a season
honoring the life and legacy of the late Judith Jamison.

Inside an episode some conservatives use to bash Cardinal McElroy, and why they’re wrong
National Catholic Reporter 03-10-2025
“Basically, the conservative critics and the opponents of Pope Francis see the sexual abuse crisis as another weapon for their culture war,” said David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. “They are less interested in the victims and in reforms than they are in scoring points.” “This is also a Catholic media story and a right-wing media story. There are no responsible journalists raising this as an issue, because there’s nothing there,” he said.

Experts say firing squad executions are quick and sure. Why are they rarely used in the US?
The Post and Courier 03-04-2025
Of the 144 civilians executed by firing squad in the course of U.S. history (with records dating back to 1608), only two were reported to have been botched, said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law school professor who has been studying capital punishment for over three decades.

Public Health Under RFK Jr.; Trump’s EPA vs. Climate Regulation; 10 Question Quiz: Where Am I?; 100 Years of 100 Things: The ERA; The Points Guy’s Travel Advice
WNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show 03-04-2025
As our centennial series continues, Julie Suk, a law professor at Fordham University and the author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020), reviews the history of the Equal Rights Amendment, from its introduction by Alice Paul in 1923 through its current disputed status, following passage by a 38th state and President Biden’s declaration that it’s the “law of the land.”

Mayor Adams Appoints Adolfo Carrion, Jr. as Deputy Mayor (DM) for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce; Suzanne Miles-Gustave as DM for Health and Human Services; Jeffrey D. Roth as DM for Operations; and Kaz Daughtry as DM for Public Safety
City of New York 03-07-2025
Miles-Gustave is a product of the New York City public school system, holds a Bachelor of Arts in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and earned her law degree from Fordham University School of Law.

I will forever be proud to call myself a student of Martin Marty
America Magazine 03-03-2025
“I was deeply saddened to receive the news of the death of Martin Marty, my mentor at the University of Chicago, who died on Feb. 25 at the age of 97. I would be less than candid, however, if I did not admit that my sense of sorrow has been balanced by an even greater sense of gratitude: gratitude for his presence in my life, gratitude for the gift of his friendship and gratitude for all that he did for me both in my days in graduate school and in my life and ministry after my graduation,” wrote Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University from 2003 to 2022.

For Black Immigrants, a Second Trump Term Hits Different
Capital B News 03-05-2025
“The deportations and the detentions, when it comes to Black immigrants, are and have long been disproportionate,” said Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University and author of the book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream.

Corsight opens the black box for AI explainability
Biometric Update 03-03-2025
“This is the essence of explainability for us: By tapping into what previously was considered the black box and presenting it in a human way we can better understand and justify what the system is doing,” says Noga. Noga dived into the topic at a webinar on the legal and commercial implications of AI explainability hosted by Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, a professor of Intellectual Property (IP) Law at Yale and Fordham University.

BFW Revisited: The Poison Plot: Adultery & Murder in Colonial Newport
Player FM 02-26-2025
Elaine Forman Crane, a Distinguished Professor of History at Fordham University, takes us through the Arnolds’ story with details from her book, The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport.

A Ballerina Steps Into the Spotlight With Swan Queen Confidence
The New York Times 02-25-2025
But there was something else: Life happened. Recently [Miriam] Miller got married and relocated to Westchester County from the Upper West Side. She recently got a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University, majoring in anthropology with a minor in sociology. She found her identity outside of the company, outside of ballet.

How ‘spiritual soundness’ led Joe Moglia from Wall Street CEO to college football head coach
The New York Times: The Athletic 02-27-2025
In 1971 Moglia was majoring in economics at Fordham and coaching football on the side. As graduation neared, so did his first big career decision. “If I can get a head high-school coaching job, I’ll pursue a career in coaching,” he told his wife. “If not, we’ll try and go to Wall Street.”

4 Nations lit the lamp for NHL, but could it work in the NBA or MLB?
NBC News 02-28-2025
Fordham University professor Mark Conrad said he hopes other leagues can someday reformat their all-star games to something more compelling than their current products. “Those [the NBA and pre-4 Nations NHL all-star games]are jokes, and the Pro Bowl is idiotic,” said Conrad, who teaches sports law at Fordham’s business school.
This article was picked up by MSN.

‘Who am I to judge?’ With five words, Pope Francis set new tone for Catholic Church
USA Today
“I believe Pope Francis will be known as one of the most consequential popes in Catholic history,” said Father Bryan Massingale of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a professor of theology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York.
This article was picked up by AOL.

How Saint Laurent’s Big Bet on ‘Emilia Pérez’ Lost Its Luster
The New York Times 03-01-2025
Despite the existence of “reputational risk insurance,” or “disgrace insurance,” which, Susan Scafidi of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University said, “can be part of other insurance policies or a separate policy designed to cover costs of crisis management and related losses,” human risk is almost impossible to avoid.
This article was picked up by DNYUZ.

KPMG Wins Approval to Launch First US Law Firm for Big Four (1)
Bloomberg Law 02-27-2025
“One question is are they engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in other states in which they are giving advice because that’s where the clients are located,” said legal ethics professor Bruce Green, who teaches at Fordham Law School.

Questions linger as Pope Francis remains in critical condition
Spectrum News 1 02-25-2025
The Vatican says the Pope showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work as of yesterday. But questions continue to swirl about what could be next for the Catholic Church. David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, joined “News All Day” on Tuesday to talk more about the Pope.

What ‘Conclave’ Didn’t Show You: Inside The Secret Process Of Electing A Pope
Religion Unplugged 03-02-2025
David Gibson, Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, said the film allowed for “the human dynamics of these holy and flawed characters really came out, and the ending was almost superfluous.”

Jacquelin Harris shines brightly in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Philadelphia Sunday Sun 03-02-2025
“I auditioned and attended The Ailey School, the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, and I graduated in 2014, joining Ailey my senior year of college. That same year in May of 2014, I joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,” said Jacquelin Harris, Ailey/Fordham ‘14.

How Much Do Endorsements Matter in NYC’s Local Races?
The City 02-27-2025
“In a very crowded, low-information primary — with presumably incredibly low turnout — certain endorsements will matter because they will serve as shortcuts for voters who don’t necessarily have the desire or the bandwidth to sift through all the different policy proposals of the various candidates,” explained Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham (and co-host of the THE CITY’s FAQ NYC podcast).

UN General Assembly passes two rival resolutions on Ukraine war
RTÉ 02-24-2025
Professor at Fordham University in New York Anjali Dayal, also speaking before the vote, said “it is extremely unusual for any major power to switch sides in a conflict like this”. “And it’s unprecedented for the US to produce a draft resolution that’s welcomed by Russia and unwelcome to the US’ traditional allies,” she said.

As South Carolina prepares for a firing squad execution, here are how many have gone wrong
The State 02-27-2025
Actually, that’s not quite right. But let’s start at the beginning of U.S. firing squad executions, which Fordham University School of Law professor Deborah W. Denno has studied closely. She says the first documented firing squad execution occurred in Virginia in 1608 and that there had been 30, mostly in California and Louisiana, by 1789. Firing squads and hangings are the oldest methods of U.S. executions, but firing squads have been used only 144 times to date.
This article was picked up by The Island Packet.

Today in Sports – Venus & Serena Williams become 1st sisters to win WTA Tour events on the same day
The News-Item 02-27-2025
1940 — College basketball is televised for the first time. Station W2XBS transmits a basketball doubleheader from New York’s Madison Square Garden. Pittsburgh plays Fordham and New York University competes against Georgetown.
This article was picked up by The Associated Press.

Fostering A Sense Of Belonging
Leaders Magazine 03-01-2025
“Inclusiveness is essential to attract and retain top talent for today and tomorrow. Organizations can create inclusive environments that provide resources, tools, and advocacy opportunities to fuel career development. Barriers still exist, particularly for those who have been marginalized due to their gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, and other factors,” said Karyn Twaronite, EY Global Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness (GABELLI ’95).

Healthcare Transformation
Leaders Magazine 03-01-2025
“By investing in women’s professional development, we’re not just supporting individual growth – we’re strengthening our organization’s capacity for innovation, creativity, and exceptional performance,” said Maria Tiso, Metro New York Healthcare Industry Leader at KPMG LLP (GABELLI ’91).

Berbari Takes the Mic For Yankees Postgame Show on WFAN
Radio Ink 02-25-2025
His past experience includes play-by-play work for the Hudson Valley Renegades, Chatham Anglers, and ESPN’s digital platforms. [Emmanuel] Berbari is a five-time New York State Broadcasters Association and Associated Press award winner and has received two STAA Jim Nantz All-American honors and three Marty Glickman Awards while at Fordham University’s WFUV.

Why Pro Bono Work Is Essential To Any Attorney’s Practice
Law360 02-28-2025
For Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos, a legal clinic offering pro bono counsel is as close to “church” as she’ll get. The adjunct professor and executive director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law was recently honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Pro Bono and Access to Justice.

New York Yankees Fans React to Curious Broadcast Change
Athlon Sports 02-25-2025
[Emmanuel] Berbari is entering his third season working on Yankees radio broadcasts. The news is especially noteworthy because Berbari, a Fordham graduate, is only 25. “Growing up hanging on every pitch and each word on Yankees Radio, the opportunity to be a part of the team these last two seasons has been surreal,” Berbari said in a press release.

Interfaith America Partners with the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities to Host Presidents Institute
Interfaith America 02-28-2025
Other presidents highlighted the keynote address by Dr. Bryan Massingale, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics at Fordham University, who described the responsibilities of moral leadership as a relay race. “You are called to run your leg of the race the best you can, honoring those before you and doing your best for those who will come after you.”

The first college basketball game on TV was Pitt vs. Fordham in 1940
NCAA 02-28-2025
Fordham University also has a pair of photos from that night atop this article from the 75th anniversary of the game, and Getty Images has a pretty great photograph from the game at this link as well. But coverage of the game (and especially coverage of the historic moment in television history) is hard to come by because television simply wasn’t a big deal at the time. According to Mitchell Stephens, professor of journalism and mass communication at NYU, “before 1947 the number of U.S. homes with television sets could be measured in the thousands.”

What Do You Call Counties Without Lawyers?
5280 03-01-2025
[Anne] Kelly grew up in upstate New York, went to law school at New York City’s Fordham University, and worked for metro-area district attorneys in some of Colorado’s largest judicial districts. When she was offered the Alamosa post in September 2022, Kelly had been the senior deputy in Boulder County’s DA office for nearly four years and was known for championing women’s rights in domestic violence cases.

Florida Southern basketball legend Hal Wissel dies; how he impacted star John Ebeling
News Chief 02-25-2025
Then, he [Hal Wissel] coached Division I Lafayette College (1967-71), becoming a conference champion before coaching Division I Fordham University to the National Invitation in 1972. He earned the Coach & Athlete magazine’s Eastern Coach of the Year in ’72.

Auriemma and Martelli headline Joe Lapchick Character Award recipients
NBC News Connecticut 02-26-2025
Geno Auriemma and Phil Martelli will headline this year’s recipients of the Joe Lapchick Character Award. Joining the two coaches will be longtime men’s basketball official Gene Steratore and former Fordham athletic director Frank McLaughlin.

BREAKING: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo Announces Campaign for NYC Mayor
Little Africa News 03-01-2025
[Andrew] Cuomo, a native New Yorker, served as the New York State Attorney General from 2007 to 2010 before running for governor and serving that position from January 2011 to August 2021. He holds degrees from both Fordham University and Albany Law School.

FBI Reforms for Kash Patel
The Wall Street Journal 02-23-2025
“Cultural changes are much harder to achieve than organizational changes. The new director should drop the slogan ‘an intelligence-driven’ organization and adopt ‘an organization guided by the Constitution.’ The FBI can become a guarantor of the Bill of Rights, not a threat to it,” wrote Thomas Baker, FCRH ’64.

The Francis Effect podcast: Theologians sound off about Trump’s first month back
National Catholic Reporter 02-20-2025
In this special episode of “The Francis Effect,” co-host and NCR senior correspondent Heidi Schlumpf welcomes four theologians: Bryan Massingale and Cristina Traina, both of Fordham University in New York, and Hille Haker and Miguel Diaz, both of Loyola University Chicago.

U.S. Firing Squad Executions Are Rare, but Their History Is Long
The New York Times 02-21-2025
A sort of automated firing squad was used to kill a prisoner in Nevada more than a century ago, said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University: In the execution of Andriza Mircovich in 1913, three rifles were fired simultaneously by a mechanism, so that no one had to pull a trigger.

The 2025 New York City Power 100
City & State New York 02-18-2025
Christina Greer has been teaching political science courses at Fordham University for more than 15 years and has emerged as New York’s leading political expert in the academic world. She’s made regular appearances on “The Brian Lehrer Show,” writes a column with The New York Amsterdam News and hosts “The Blackest Questions” podcast on TheGrio.

First Semester in a New York Minute
Muscular Dystrophy Association 02-20-2025
“It’s not always easy or smooth and my journey to finding and choosing Fordham was no easy feat but that’s for another blog. I’ve been fortunate to have found my place at Fordham and have been very supported by the University, including the offices of Disability Services and Residential Life,” wrote Jonathan Lengel, student at Fordham University.

America Media Announces 2025-26 O’Hare Fellows
America Magazine 02-20-2025
William Gualtiere is a graduating senior at Fordham University, where he studies Film and Television and serves as an intern and leader for Fordham’s retreat team. During his time at Fordham, William studied the recent Synod on Synodality and traveled to Rome to observe the event in Fall 2023.

Theologians, ministers and pastors build bridges across the church in the Americas
National Catholic Reporter 02-24-2025
Since the early church, there has been a tradition of churches serving as places of refuge or sanctuary, Fordham University professor Leo Guardado said during his intervention. “For over 1,600 years, however, the church legally understood itself as a community of refuge, of asylum, of sanctuary, until all reference to this tradition disappeared in [the Code of Canon Law of]1983.”

Beyond Infrastructure: Why Higher Education IT Needs Trauma-Informed Leadership Now
Educause Review 02-18-2025
“Ultimately, trauma-informed leadership offers a powerful vision for the future of higher education IT organizations. By fostering psychological safety, transparency, and ethical responsibility, CIOs can build resilient and creative teams and ensure that staff well-being and institutional integrity remain at the forefront,” wrote Steven D’Agustino, senior director for online programs at Fordham University, who co-authored the article for Educause Review.

Recall Adams instead of Gov. Hochul removing him
New York Daily News 02-15-2025
“As the governor said Monday, removal of a democratically-elected official is as serious as it gets: “In the 235 years of New York State history, these powers have never been utilized to remove a duly-elected mayor.” She is right to be super cautious. But if she and her “key leaders” cannot persuade Adams to resign, the Legislature should immediately enact a provision for a recall election and set it for a month from now so there could be a special election for a mayor to fill the rest of Adams’ term,” wrote Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project.

The Trump administration just used a move to fire thousands of federal workers that has become all too familiar in corporate America
Fortune 02-19-2025
When the reasons for firing someone are arbitrary and patently false, or when there were no reasons given at all, those are legitimate grounds for challenging what went on,” says James Brudney, labor and employment law chair at Fordham University School of Law.
This article was picked up by MSN.

States eye bans on ‘surveillance pricing’ that exploits personal data
The Washington Post 02-20-2025
Now a loose coalition of left-leaning advocacy groups including the Groundwork Collaborative and Towards Justice, along with scholars such as Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout and University of California, Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, are pushing for action at the state level.
This article was picked up by MSN and The Boston Globe.

NYC chef Alessandra Ciuffo: 12 HexClad picks and essential kitchen must-haves
Fox News 02-20-2025
To get a list of the best tools, we interviewed NYC-based chef and food influencer, Alessandra Ciuffo. Originally a Fordham University grad with a degree in Business Administration, Alessandra has since started the Culinary Arts program at the Institute of Culinary Education. She’s also created the culinary lifestyle brand, Flavors by Ale.
This article was picked up by MSN, Breaking News Today, and NY Morning Star.

First Semester in a New York Minute
Muscular Dystrophy Association 02-20-2025
“It’s not always easy or smooth and my journey to finding and choosing Fordham was no easy feat but that’s for another blog. I’ve been fortunate to have found my place at Fordham and have been very supported by the University, including the offices of Disability Services and Residential Life,” wrote Jonathan Lengel, student at Fordham University.

Legal expert weighs in on what may come next in Adams corruption case
Spectrum News 1 02-20-2025
Cheryl Bader, a law professor at Fordham University, discussed in a “Mornings On 1” interview Thursday all the potential outcomes that may follow, and how the case has been received within the wider legal community in New York City.

Thursday Morning Politics; Ukraine Update; ‘Stuck’ in Place; Nap Breaks
The Brian Lehrer Show – WNYC 02-20-2025
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, co-host of the podcast FAQNYC and the author of How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams (Cambridge University Press, 2024), talks about the latest national and local political news

“That’s a real weakness in the film”: Pope Expert Reveals What ‘Conclave’ Gets Wrong With Its Twisted Ending That Made Megyn Kelly Furious
FandomWire 02-20-2025
The film’s ending sparked debates among critics, audiences, and scholars alike. The Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, David Gibson, spoke to GQ and acknowledged the film’s intrigue, but he did criticize the ending and said: “Yes, an intersex person could be elected pope, just as there have undoubtedly been gay men elected pope. It’s not clear what it would mean though, and I think that’s a real weakness in the film. Robert Harris, it seems, wanted to make a statement about gender and the Catholic Church, which is fine.”

Centennial celebration of Flannery O’Connor kicks off with panel discussion on faith and race
Savannah Morning News 02-20-2025
The third panelist, poet-writer and Fordham University professor Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has had multiple encounters with O’Connor’s works throughout her life and each encounter, she said in a recent interview, had deepened her appreciation of O’Connor even as O’Donnell has had to confront the problematic struggle among the Southern gothic author’s fiction, essays and inner life.

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal on Bringing Othello to Broadway
Broadway.com 02-21-2025
In the upcoming Broadway revival of Shakespeare’s Othello, Denzel Washington will inhabit the fatally flawed Moor—reprising a role he played as an undergraduate at Fordham University—while Jake Gyllenhaal plays the plotting Iago, his first professional Shakespeare role.

Meet the Cast of OTHELLO, Beginning Previews Tonight on Broadway
Broadway World 02-24-2025
Denzel Washington is a native of Mt. Vernon, NY, and graduated from Fordham University, where he majored in drama. He spent a year at San Francisco’s prestigious American Conservatory Theatre before beginning his professional acting career. Since then, Denzel’s unforgettable performances have garnered him two Academy® Awards, three Golden Globes, and countless other awards.

TP O’Mahony: Church’s relationship with democracy has always been inconsistent
Irish Examiner 02-19-2025
The anti-democratic position finally changed, so far as wider society is concerned, in the 1960s, with Vatican II (1962-65). “It was in the Council that the Church finally made peace with the liberal democratic state,” according to Anthony Annett of Fordham University in New York.

How does Malverne High School celebrate Black History Month?
LI Herald 02-21-2025
[Lorna] Lewis, who plans to retire at the end of the school year, has spent 46 years in education. Born in Jamaica, she came to the United States at age 16 to study physics at Fordham University. She went on to earn three master’s degrees and a doctorate from Columbia University.

M. Paul Friedberg, who brought play to landscape design, dies at 93
The Washington Post 02-20-2025
He helped explore the potential in other overlooked urban spaces such as rooftops, redesigning a public area atop a building at Fordham University’s Manhattan campus into a green space in 1998 with a sculpture garden.

Amid DC Threats, NYC Public Radio Stations Form Collaborative
Radio Ink 02-21-2025
The initiative brings together Newark Public Radio (WBGO), New York Public Radio (WQXR), Fordham University Public Radio (WFUV), and Sacred Heart University Public Radio (WSHU) in a coordinated effort backed by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The initiative will focus on developing a five-year business model that establishes a structural plan for staffing and management.

54 years of marriage and the romantic vibe is still swinging
Orlando Sentinel 02-23-2025
As the family grew over the next six years, Valada finished her degree in marketing at Marymount College in Tarrytown, which is now called Marymount College of Fordham University.

Fordham Law center supports part-time, evening J.D. program with gift from alumnus law firm
National Jurist 02-15-2025
Fordham University School of Law unveiled the Urquhart Learning Center in October 2024, established with a gift from the law firm of alumnus Bill Urquhart (’78), who passed away in 2019 at the age of 72. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP’s gift to Fordham Law will support part-time, evening J.D. students with scholarships and financial aid, health and well-being support, experiential learning opportunities and programming.

After 25 Years of Triumphs and Troubles, a Ballerina Bids Farewell
The New York Times 02-12-2025
In the years since that “Firebird” when, she said, “I didn’t know anything,” [Ashley] Bouder became one of the company’s most visible ballerinas — she also earned a double degree in political science and organizational leadership from Fordham University; married and had a child (her daughter, Violet, 8, is a student at School of American Ballet); and embraced being a feminist, speaking out about injustices in the ballet world.

A GOP U.S. Attorney Does the Right Thing in Eric Adams’ Corruption Case
U.S. News & World Report 02-14-2025
“The best hope is that lower-level lawyers will follow the lead of principled prosecutors like Sassoon by doing their jobs in the tradition that Robert Jackson articulated so well. That means declining to follow directions that are improper and resigning in protest if necessary,” wrote Bruce Green, professor at Fordham Law School and director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, who co-authored the article for U.S. News & World Report.
This article was picked up by MSN.

New book explores how Catholics experience the Bible
Catholic World Report 02-15-2025
Fordham University theology professor Michael Peppard shares an interesting anecdote about when he and his publisher were trying to find the right title for his new book. An editor suggested his book about Catholic biblical interpretation could be called How Catholics Read the Bible.

Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, and appears to take direct aim at Vance
The Associated Press 02-11-2025
David Gibson, director of the center for religion and culture at Fordham University, said in a social media post that Francis’ letter “takes aim at every single absurd theological claim by JD Vance and his allies in conservative Catholicism (and the Catholic electorate). … This is the pope also directly countering misinformation about the Catholic faith that is being expounded by the Catholic vice president,” he added to The Associated Press. “And it is the pope supporting the bishops as well.”
This article was picked up by MSN, ABC, and New York Daily News, and Gibson was also quoted about Francis’ letter in The Guardian (MSN), Metro (MSN), Newsweek, and Raw Story.

NY Mayor Eric Adams faces tough reelection even if charges dropped
Reuters 02-11-2025
Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University, says any polling at this juncture should not be given too much weight and believes that Adams still has a chance to regain the support he needs to survive the primary. “In politics you are not dead until you are literally dead, so Eric Adams is still very much in this,” Greer said.
This article was picked up by MSN.

Guantánamo is a legal black hole. What rights do immigrants have there?
Vox 02-16-2025
“That puts it in a different legal paradigm,” said Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. “That sets up a whole new system that they’re going to have to create and it remains to be seen how any of these laws that would protect migrants would apply.” There’s no precedent for this legal situation.
This article was picked up by MSN.

Fordham Law center supports part-time, evening J.D. program with gift from alumnus law firm
National Jurist 02-15-2025
Fordham University School of Law unveiled the Urquhart Learning Center in October 2024, established with a gift from the law firm of alumnus Bill Urquhart (’78), who passed away in 2019 at the age of 72. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP’s gift to Fordham Law will support part-time, evening J.D. students with scholarships and financial aid, health and well-being support, experiential learning opportunities and programming.

Many Want Hochul to Force Adams From Office. She Isn’t Rushing.
The New York Times 02-14-2025
Jerry H. Goldfeder, a longtime election lawyer who teaches at Fordham Law School, said in an interview that Mr. Roosevelt allowed Mr. Walker “free rein” to call witnesses and introduce evidence to defend himself. If Ms. Hochul were to play this card, he said, she would be on firm ground so long as Mr. Adams was given clear reasons for his removal and the chance to offer a defense.

Kanye West’s Yeezy Site Now Has ‘Stores Coming Soon’ Message
Women’s Wear Daily 02-13-2025
Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, said that while unlike in Germany, “it is legal in the U.S. to sell items that use the swastika to advocate Nazism, the T-shirts may have violated Shopify’s ‘Acceptable Use Policy,’ which prohibits actions that ‘breach the social contract of commerce,’ including advocating violence against specific groups.”

A GOP U.S. Attorney Does the Right Thing in Eric Adams’ Corruption Case
U.S. News & World Report 02-14-2025
“The best hope is that lower-level lawyers will follow the lead of principled prosecutors like Sassoon by doing their jobs in the tradition that Robert Jackson articulated so well. That means declining to follow directions that are improper and resigning in protest if necessary,” wrote Bruce Green, professor at Fordham Law School and director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, who co-authored the article for U.S. News & World Report.
This article was picked up by MSN.

How to Rescue Your Slumping Humanities Program
The Chronicle of Higher Education 02-11-2025
“Rescuing the humanities isn’t going to be easy. Every department could identify its own strengths and devise a plan for how to translate those commitments into a community that attracts students. The English department at Wash U. shows it can be done,” wrote Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University.

Hagan Scotten, lead Adams’ prosecutor, resigns telling DOJ only a ‘coward’ will follow order to drop case
New York Daily News 02-14-202
Former Manhattan federal prosecutor and Fordham Law School professor Bruce Green, who heads the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics’, on Friday said Bove’s memo to drop the case was “abusive” and that Sassoon had made the right choice. “One can only conclude that the decision was made for improper partisan political reasons. Prosecutors are not permitted to prosecute, threaten to prosecute, or decline to prosecute, to serve partisan political ends,” Green said.

New York City shoppers call price of eggs ‘ridiculous’ amid rising prices
News 12 Bronx 02-10-2025
But an economics professor at Fordham University [Giacomo Santangelo] says he doesn’t think that’s the case. “I think we are actually seeing them passing the increase in their costs on to the consumer.” He says this is about supply and demand. He adds until the bird flu is under control, egg prices will reflect that.

Why do Black voters currently seem to prefer Andrew Cuomo over Eric Adams?
City & State New York 02-10-2025
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, said that while the former governor makes a point of maintaining his relationships with the Black community, the concerted effort to remind voters about his record has not begun. “We do have short political memories, but we have not seen ads reminding voters about how he handled nursing homes or his allegations about sexual behavior and conduct,” Greer said.

PA Shoppers Spend Bigger Share Of Paychecks On Groceries Than Most Northeast States: Study
Daily Voice 02-17-2025
“Often, folks think there is this magic formula or Harry Potter-esque Patronus spell that can resolve our high cost of living expenses (especially groceries) with a swoop of the Elder Wand,” said Fordham University business professor Mario DiFiore. “As we said in The Bronx, where I grew up, ‘It is not happening.'”

Grocery Costs in Florida: How Much Are Residents Spending?
Central Florida Lifestyle Magazine 02-13-2025
“In short, slow thinking, what I will call mindfulness in decision-making allows us to leave those purchasing biases behind and focus…on what is needed with an eye to inexpensiveness, less waste, more nutrition, and real needs satisfied,” Mario J. DiFiore, PhD, Senior Assistant Dean; Chairman, SMF Investment Fund; Finance and Business Economics Faculty, Fordham University said.

Rev. Al Sharpton To Host Summit Concerning NYC Mayor Eric Adams
NewsOne 02-13-2025
“A potential loss of Al Sharpton is huge because you don’t want him against you,” Fordham University political science professor Dr. Christina Greer said. ” He’s an organizer, a brilliant one at that, and has been for a very long time, and knows all five boroughs of New York City. But he also has a very strong, active, loyal collection of people who really do listen and respect his political analysis.”

New home for osprey birds being built in Eastchester Bay
Bronx Times 02-18-2025
Fordham University is building a new waterfront facility near Villa Maria Academy in Eastchester Bay, which will include a designated nesting site for ospreys returning from South America this spring. The project’s first phase—rebuilding a dock that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2010—is nearing completion and is expected to be finished in the coming weeks.

New ways to CPA
Accounting Today 02-04-2025
“What was a boondoggle beginning for the schools has flipped around because the customer goes elsewhere,” said Stan Veliotis, associate professor and chair of accounting and tax at Fordham University. “At the beginning, the customer had to come to you because you were the only one selling this product. Then they realized, ‘You know what, I could just substitute this with something else,’ and that’s what’s happening.”

Rubio touts Bukele’s ‘generous’ offer to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador, but experts say it’s illegal
NBC News 02-04-2025
“The U.S. can’t deport one of its own citizens. Deportation is for noncitizens only,” said Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham Law School. “But that’s not the end of the story. There’s a second set of questions about whether the U.S. could transfer a U.S. citizen prisoner to another country to serve their sentence,” she said.
This article was picked up by Yahoo! News, Head Topics, MSN.

Bryan Kohberger case: Idaho makes key move on firing squad executions
Fox News 02-06-2025
One of the country’s leading experts on capital punishment, Fordham University professor Deborah Denno, has also argued that the firing squad is an effective and humane method of execution. “We’ve had three modern firing squad executions, and they have gone off as intended, and the inmate has died quickly and with dignity,” she said after Creech’s failed execution. “So, I think that is something to emphasize.”
This article was picked up by Yahoo! News and Breaking News Today.

Surveillance Pricing Is Ripping You Off. Here’s How to Fight It.
New York Magazine – The Cut 02-06-2025
Zephyr Teachout, an attorney and professor at Fordham University who specializes in antitrust law, points out that you’re more likely to be targeted with higher prices if you seem to be in a rush. “If you order a car service to go to a hospital, you might pay more than if you were going to a restaurant, because you’re presumably in a hurry,” she says.

Ed Martin is the wrong person to investigate Biden-era prosecutors
The Hill 02-09-2025
“But it will be hard for federal prosecutors to ignore political considerations after a new U.S. attorney, without cause, seeks to unearth prosecutorial misconduct in cases that are anathema to the new president, who closed out the cases by issuing hundreds of pardons. The glaring if unstated message is that prosecutors’ future work will be subject to a political litmus test,” wrote Bruce Green, professor at Fordham Law School and director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, who co-authored the article for The Hill.
This article was picked up by MSN.

What a Trade War Under Trump Would Mean for Your Finances
U.S. News & World Report 02-07-2025
First, let’s start with what a tariff isn’t: It’s not a tax on the country sending the goods, says Paul Johnson, adjunct professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. “Very simply, a tariff means that at the border where the plane lands or the truck crosses, someone is paying more money to bring that item into the country, and it’s usually the importer,” he says.

1st migrant flight lands at Guantanamo Bay, carrying ‘worst of the worst’
ABC News 02-04-2025
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, told ABC News’ Phil Lipof on Jan. 29 that a “big challenge” of holding migrants at Guantanamo Bay is the large number Trump has suggested. “I don’t know that they have the capacity for that,” said Greenberg, who noted that “in the old days and the ’90s, I think they held 21,000 at the most.”
This article was picked up by MSN, and Greenburg was also quoted about Guantanamo Bay in NPR.

Trump just crushed Shein’s business model. Now what?
Fast Company 02-07-2025
Giacomo Santangelo, senior economics lecturer at Fordham University, says American companies like Amazon and Uber were willing to take a loss for some time in order to put their competitors out of business. “This strategy won’t work for Shein and Temu because there’s no chance they will be able to successfully wipe out their competitors,” he says.
This article was picked up by MSN.

How Companies Like Target, E.l.f. and Levi’s Are Responding to Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
Women’s Wear Daily 02-03-2025
Susan Scafidi, founder and director at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, said Trump seems to be looking to make examples of some larger organizations and assuming the smaller ones will fall in line. “DEI in its current form may die, but…we’re likely to see an evolution in language and form,” Scafidi said.

What Does It Mean To Be Greyromantic? Here’s How To Tell If You Identify With The Romantic Orientation
Women’s Health 02-06-2025
“Don’t make your gatherings ‘you and your plus one’-type invitations, which can lead aromantics and many others to feel left out,” says Kryss Shane, PhD, LSW, LMSW, a leading LGBTQ+ expert [and adjunct professor and lecturer at Fordham University].
This article was picked up by MSN.

Sal Maida, Bassist With Roxy Music and Milk ’N’ Cookies, Dies at 76
The Hollywood Reporter 02-03-2025
A devoted Anglophile, [Salvatore Maida] traveled to London after graduating from Fordham University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and was working in a record store when he met Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson.
Maida’s death was also noted in MSN, Head Topics, Pop Culture.

16 Afro-Latino Executives You Need to Know
Hispanic Executive 02-07-2025
Rosevelie Márquez Morales is the chief diversity officer for the Americas at Hogan Lovells, leading strategic initiatives to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion across the US, Mexico, and Brazil. A former litigation partner, she is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law and serves in leadership roles with the Hispanic National Bar Association, ASPIRA of NY, and the Fordham Law Alumni Association.

Empowering Grandparent Caregivers Via In-Person and Virtual Programs
Generations Journal 02-05-2025
“All classes were offered in a classroom at Fordham University, a feature that was empowering as it allowed the grandparents to frequently interact with social work students. Also, the university’s Dean visited the first class of each cohort to welcome grandparent students and introduce the program,” said Carole Cox, MSW, PhD, professor of Social Work at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University.

Is Listening to Christmas Music Good for Your Health? It Depends!
Well + Good 02-05-2025
“If people hate Christmas music, it would have the opposite effect, in fact,” Zatorre says. And even if you like Christmas music, the repetition can change your experience of it, says Dean McKay, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Fordham University. “When music is played repetitively, it can go from pleasant to unpleasant—it crosses that threshold.”

Nietzsche on overcoming nihilism | Philosopher Babette Babich
Philosophy For Our Times 02-04-2025
Babette is a trailblazing philosopher of technology and science. Known for her exploration of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science, she also works on the philosophy of digital media, poetry and art. Babette is a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York City.

Back to School: The Power of Perspective
Radioink 02-04-2025
I was fortunate last week to speak to a class in person at the Fordham University campus in New York City by my friend Janet Gallant. Janet teaches a “Consumer Adoption of New Media” course, and the experience was exhilarating.

The Next Hot Playwright? They Prefer the Ones Who Cooled Off.
The New York Times 02-10-2025
A nonprofit formed in 2021, the Tent is neither a jobs program nor a boneyard. Intended to nurture still-active playwrights and raise their profiles in the theater, it is also about creating a fellowship of artists and looking out for them in more tangential ways, should any of them need it. Toward that end, [Aimée] Hayes is pursuing a master’s degree in social work at Fordham University.

New York’s Finest Shine at the 67th GRAMMY Awards
NYS Music 02-03-2025
Daniel Nigro – Producer of the Year, non-classical: Born and raised in Massapequa Park on Long Island, Daniel Nigro won Producer of the Year, non-classical. Daniel Nigro took up piano, guitar, and voice lessons in his youth and attended Fordham University for philosophy. Nigro has produced, written, and co-written songs for Sky Ferreira, Joe Jonas, Kylie Minogue, Caroline Polachek, Dermot Kennedy, Maisie Peters, and Conan Gray.

A Shore high school’s Super Bowl pipeline: 3 grads have been Super Sunday regulars
Asbury Park Press 02-04-2025
This 1993 Marlboro High School graduate [Howie Roseman], who wrestled at the school, attended the University of Florida and Fordham Law School, and went to work for the Eagles in 2000, beginning his rise through the team’s personnel department.

Eagles GM Roseman Has UF Ties
WRUF 02-04-2025
Florida graduate Howie Roseman, the Philadelphia Eagles general manager, will return in the highest stage in the NFL 0n Sunday when Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts compete in the Super Bowl rematch. The 49-year-old earned his bachelor’s degree at UF from 1993 to 1997 and attended graduate school at Fordham Law School.

Scottsdale Prep Welcomes Past Students to Speak at Alumni Panel
Great Hearts 02-03-2025
Tucker Flynn, also from the class of 2024 and a National Merit Finalist, now attends Fordham University as a first-year neuroscience major. He described how hearing past alumni speak was impactful for him when he was a student, and now he finds himself passing down much of the same wisdom.

Alvin Ailey Dancer from Upper Marlboro – VIDEO UNAVAILABLE
WRC-DC (NBC) – Washington, D.C. 02-06-2025
“I’m so grateful to be in the company. I had, I would say, a less conventional route getting into the company. I had a little bit of a time with Ailey 2, their junior company. I also grew up through the school because I was in the Ailey Fordham BFA program, from which I graduated in 2018,” said Alisha Peek.

Mike Breen once didn’t think his patented ‘Bang’ call worked
Awful Announcing 02-07-2025
During an appearance on The Roommates Show hosted by Knicks stars Jalen Bruson and Josh Hart, Breen outlined how he first started his patented call as a way to cheer as a student during Fordham University basketball games, later trying it when he started doing radio broadcasts of Fordham basketball games.
This story was also picked up by First Sportz

Trump has set his sights on a nuclear peace agreement with Iran
NewsRadio 1080 KRLD 02-09-2025
Just before Trump was inaugurated last month, Beth Knobel – a professor of journalism at Fordham University and former CBS News Moscow bureau chief – discussed a 20-year strategic partnership plan between Iran and Russia with Audacy station KCBS Radio.

Ex-Miami U.S. attorney appointed by Trump elected chief judge for nation’s 5th largest court
Miami Herald 02-08-2025
[Nushin] Sayfie served as chief judge for the past four years. After graduating from Georgetown and Fordham Law School, she spent 14 years in the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office. In 2007, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appointed her and she worked in the court’s criminal division, where she served as an administrative judge from 2013 through 2021.

The Best Colleges For Accounting 2025
University Magazine 01-29-2025
Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business combines Jesuit principles with a strong urban experience in New York City, placing it among The Best Colleges For Accounting 2025. Students study financial reporting, taxation, auditing, and data analytics, gaining Insights from experienced faculty connected to Wall Street. Gabelli’s commitment to ethics, social justice, and global awareness ensures graduates are prepared for responsible leadership.

Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in bribery, corruption case
CBS News 01-29-2025
“I think the judge was very disturbed by how Sen. Menendez wielded this great power, particularly on the Foreign Relations Committee. The judge was disturbed that [Menendez] would compromise his interests and literally line his pockets and his boots with cash and gold bars, and I think the judge found it particularly egregious that he used the power to further the aims of a foreign country above U.S. foreign policy,” said Cheryl Bader, Fordham University law professor.
This article was picked up by MSN.

Unpacking Trump’s plan to hold immigrants at Guantanamo Bay
ABC News 01-29-2025
“What it is is a place where, repeatedly, the United States has sought to place individuals without the kinds of protections by law that they have in the United States on the homeland, as we’ve seen with the detention of war on terror detainees. And also, you know, we can talk about the migration center as well, but it is not correct to call it on foreign soil. It is on a U.S. base located in Guantanamo Bay,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law.
This article was picked up by MSN and ABC News.

Betty Gilpin is the best part of that show you want to see
The Washington Post 02-01-2025
They insisted she try different things as a kid — “my parents would not allow me to be the Shirley Temple with the eyes of Joan Crawford that I wanted to be” — but she [Betty Gilpin] got her first movie part by tagging along with them to an audition while studying theater at Fordham University in Manhattan. (The actor who played her brother, Cosmo Pfeil, would later become her husband.)
This article was picked up by MSN.

Trump issues orders to promote school choice, end “anti-American” teaching
Reuters 01-29-2025
Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University, said the order came as no surprise. “As a candidate, he said there was radical indoctrination of students,” she said. “He’s making sure to frighten students and educators across the country so they can’t teach the real history of the United States.”
This article was picked up by MSN.

Netflix, McCormick Uphold DEI to Investors After Trump Directive
Bloomberg Law 01-30-2025
Companies that have pointed to diversity programs for years as a crux of their business are unlikely to end that refrain, said Atinuke Adediran, an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law who researches corporate disclosures on diversity. “It’s really hard for you to just erase everything you’ve been saying for the past three years and just get rid of it—I think that’s very bizarre,” she said.

Adams Re-Emerges After ‘Scary Week’ With Criminal Case in Doubt
The New York Times 01-30-2025
But Christina Greer, a professor at Fordham University, argued Black voters might be more forgiving of Mr. Adams surviving his legal troubles thanks to Mr. Trump’s good graces. “I don’t see Black voters begrudging him a pardon when we’ve seen so many white politicians negotiate themselves out of far worse situations for generations,” Ms. Greer said.

How tariffs could impact your wallet
News 4 New York 01-28-2025
“Tariffs are attacks on you and I, they’re attacks on consumers. Other countries don’t pay the tax, you and I do,” said Giacomo Santangelo, senior lecturer of economics at Fordham University.

What is the role for out of power Democrats on Big Tech?
Al Jazeera 01-30-2025
Zephyr Teachout, a lawyer, author and associate professor of law at Fordham University, says Big Tech leaders were not aligned with the Democrats, though, and that has become even more clear than it was recently. “Tech leaders were never with Democrats. They have always been aligned with power,” says Teachout. “In the Obama era, Google wrapped its arms and tentacles around and into the Obama administration, and for a combination of cultural reasons and reflected glow, there was a sense that Big Tech were, for Democrats, ‘our people’.”

Law professor discusses immigration raids in the city
Spectrum News NY 1 01-29-2025
Several people were arrested Tuesday during federal immigration operations in the city. However, questions remain over the scope of the White House’s immigration policies. Gemma Solimene, immigration professor at the Fordham University School of Law, joined “News All Day” on Wednesday to discuss the impact of President Donald Trump’s actions in the five boroughs.

Bill to exempt student-athlete NIL contracts from Colorado open records act draws scrutiny
Colorado Politics 01-29-2025
In 2020, Fordham University studied student-athlete compensation and reported that 86% live below the federal poverty line. On average, the Fordham study said, a Division I football or basketball player’s value can range from $120,000 to over $265,000. However, students receive only full-ride scholarships, which the study said does not “help athletes from poverty who are trying to help feed their family back home.”

The Trump Administration Will Truly Test the Supreme Court
The American Prospect 01-31-2025
Yet, as things stand, Trump has effectively instructed a private company to break federal laws, and to violate a fresh-off-the-press Supreme Court order. “It’s basically saying, there is a law that has passed that I don’t think should be a law, and therefore my enforcers will not enforce it,” said Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham University and a former antitrust enforcer at the New York attorney general’s office, on a recent episode of the Organized Money podcast.

Akron native Kali Oliver to perform in Cleveland with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Signal Akron 01-30-2025
[Kali] Oliver graduated from Fordham University with a degree in dance in 2021. She then spent three years dancing with Ailey II, which is for early-career dancers. In 2024, she became a member of the company.

The Top 50 Women Leaders of Delaware for 2025
Women We Admire 02-03-2025
[Laura] Tourge earned her MBA in Marketing from Fordham Gabelli School of Business. Before that, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Marketing at James Madison University.

Editorial: JD Vance aims vulgar, undeserved cynicism at bishops over immigration
National Catholic Reporter 01-28-2025
In a 1983 lecture at Fordham University, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin introduced what he called the “consistent ethic of life,” also referred to as the “seamless garment” approach to difficult social justice questions. It was a model, had they chosen to adopt it, that would have allowed bishops to remain above partisan politics while preaching and teaching on a wide range of issues.

Rhode Island at Fordham odds, tips and betting trends – February 5
Sports Book Wire 02-01-2025
The Fordham Rams (10-12, 2-7 A-10) are at home in A-10 action against the Rhode Island Rams (15-6, 4-5 A-10) on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM ET. In this preview, we take a look at the Fordham vs. Rhode Island odds and lines around this matchup.

Idaho beefs up firing squad as Bryan Kohbeger trial nears
Fox News 01-24-2025
Fordham Law School professor Deborah Denno, a leading expert on the death penalty in the U.S., previously told Fox News Digital that the firing squad is accepted as the most efficient and humane means of execution.
This article was picked up by MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! News, and Denno was also quoted in articles in the Idaho Statesman and WhatsNew2Day.

The soul of America—from Martin Luther King to Trump
America Magazine 01-19-2025
“Perhaps King’s greatest gift to us is the reminder that when we do the work of justice, we work with what he called ‘cosmic companionship.’ We can take courage and hope from a sermon that he often preached: ‘God is able.'” wrote Fr. Bryan Massingale, the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in applied ethics at Fordham University. 
Fr. Massingale’s essay was also noted in the National Catholic Reporter.

Is Trump’s order to allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. even legal?
NPR 01-23-2025
President Trump himself once tried to ban TikTok, but changed his mind now that many of his supporters use it, and he says he will not enforce it while trying to find a buyer. So we have called Olivier Sylvain for a legal opinion. He’s a professor of law at Fordham University.

Amazon resumes new US green card applications for foreign workers, leaked memo shows
Business Insider 01-23-2025
Jennifer Gordon, a labor and immigration law professor at Fordham University, told BI that companies may be trying to anticipate Trump’s unpredictable behavior in advance. Given Trump’s past hard-line stance against immigration, Gordon said it’s possible the new administration could issue a policy pausing skilled labor immigration applications in the future. “If I was a tech company, I wouldn’t be fully confident that he will follow through,” Gordon said.

Chat Box with David Cruz – Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on Trump’s Agenda
PBS 01-25-205
“Yes, he did win the electoral college. He did not win by a landslide, and we have to remember that 40% of the voting-eligible population in the United States chose not to participate, so by no means does he have a mandate from the vast majority of Americans for any of the stuff that he’s doing. We can still be vigilant when he’s talking about everything from DEI to immigration to a woman’s right to choose to LGBTQ rights, plus issues to the environment to a relationship with those abroad, the list goes on and on,” said Christina Greer, Fordham University political science professor.
This interview was picked up by NJ Spotlight News.

How Trump could overturn birthright citizenship: Law professor explains
ABC 7 01-22-2025
“There are things that the Trump administration has tried to do in its first two days on immigration that have quite a decent chance of being upheld. This, in my view, is not one of them. Essentially, the administration here is hoping that they will get conservative judges and justices with views outside the mainstream to endorse their theory, but that theory really is well outside the mainstream,” said Jennifer Gordon, Feerick Chair and immigration law expert at Fordham University.

‘The Fall of Diddy’ Highlights the Plight of Sean Combs
WWD 01-23-2025
“We listen to their music, watch them win awards, gossip about their romantic entanglements, and wear their clothes. We’re also eager to look behind the scenes, and when the curtain is pulled back to reveal allegations of misconduct, we continue watching in horrified fascination,” said Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University.

Geothermal: Another Source of Renewable Energy
The National Law Review 01-23-2025
In late December 2024, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that more than $29 million has been awarded to 15 innovative projects that will reduce statewide carbon emissions. Included in the awards is a project involving the design and development of the largest geothermal heating and cooling system in the Northeast for Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx.

The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts
The Chronicle of Higher Education 01-21-2025
Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University who writes for The Chronicle about graduate education, ponders the discomfort academics in the humanities have with the term “skills,” for its association with the capitalist system, its threat to turn humanities departments into service units for business and engineering colleges, and its potential to diminish professors’ status as researchers. But the climate in academe is changing, he concedes: “The pursuit of skills has been a goal of American academia since its beginnings. We deny that fact at our peril.”

Writing wrongs
The New Criterion 01-22-2025
“When academic writers write badly,” comments [Leonard] Cassuto, a longtime professor of English at Fordham University who has frequently written on academic practices, “they make all academia vulnerable to derision and political attack.”

Are Biden’s Pardons Valid? Democrat Legal Scholars Say No
The Post & Email 01-26-2025
Professor Andrew Kent of Fordham Law School agrees: “A pardon of a third party motivated principally by the president’s desire to protect himself would seem to violate the faithful execution principles.” He reasons that other enumerated and implicit constitutional principles constrain all provisions of the Constitution.

New Jersey leads Northeast in population growth and is bigger than ever. Here’s why.
Asbury Park Press 01-23-2025
“Immigrants at all levels are an engine of growth,” said Jennifer Gordon, a professor at Fordham Law School in New York who specializes in immigration law.

How Jury Nullification Could Set Luigi Mangione Free in UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder Case
In Touch Weekly 01-22-2025
“It’s a reaction by the jury to a legal result that they feel would be so unjust or morally wrong that they refuse to impose it, despite what the law says,” Cheryl Bader, an associate professor of law at Fordham University Law School, says.
This article was picked up by Yahoo! News, and Bader was also quoted in articles in The Music Essentials.

That’s why you get a food coma
Earth Press News 01-23-2025
In the same podcast episode tells Subha Mani professor of economics and research assistant at the Center for International Policy Studies at Fordham University, and Justine Hervé assistant professor of economics at the Stevens Institute of Technology, about his research with other academics.

College Credits: Glenview Student Makes Dean’s List At Fordham U
Patch 01-22-2025
Berkley-Ayne Dorsten, of Glenview, was recently named to the dean’s list, second honors, for the fall 2024 semester at Fordham University. The Loyola Academy graduate is majoring in international political economy (pre-law track) and is a double minor in business administration and global public health. The school defines dean’s list as a 3.6 or better, and Second Honors is awarded to students with a GPA between 3.8-3.899.

Actor, dancer and former jockey Robert Montano’s true story told in ‘SMALL’ at the George Street Playhouse
WGBO Journal 01-22-2025
Jessi [D. Hill] teaches directing at Fordham and Barnard/Columbia University. Giving back is what she’s all about. “I think that I try to be the kind of teacher that I always wanted and to bring my professional experiences to young people who are really serious about doing this.”

Art World Comings and Goings: The Andy Warhol Museum’s New Director and More
New York Observer 1-23-2025
A Fordham University Law School graduate, [Mari-Claudia] Jiménez made the leap from private legal practice to the high-stakes auction world in 2016, joining Sotheby’s as senior vice president and managing director of Trusts & Estates and Valuations.

Governor Moore Appoints Kamal Essaheb as Senior Advisor and Director of Immigrant Affairs
The Office of Governor Wes Moore 01-22-2025
Kamal Essaheb is a national leader on immigration policy, with experience as an attorney, in community advocacy, and in the federal government. Essaheb earned his J.D. from Fordham University and holds a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Queens College of the City University of New York.

Tom Krasovic: Smart, skilled Eagles ride newcomers, NFL’s best roster to Super Bowl
The San Diego Union-Tribune 01-26-2025
Powerful and deep, the Eagles caused four turnovers, scored a touchdown after each takeaway and overwhelmed the Washington Commanders, 55-23. They will now play in their third Super Bowl under [Howie] Roseman, who launched his NFL career by mailing hundreds of letters to an Eagles executive as a recent graduate of Fordham Law School.

Superstar Denzel Washington claims freedom to preach | Terry Mattingly
Knoxville News Sentinel 01-23-2025
The young Washington was in his mother’s Mount Vernon, New York, beauty parlor, after horrible grades forced a leave of absence from Fordham University. An elderly woman, Ruth Green, who many believed had unique spiritual gifts, looked him in the eye and asked for a piece of paper.

The “Finest in Disorganized Religion?” Orthodox Christianity Endures
The Public Discourse 01-22-2025
Shortly before the recent US presidential election, an online publication of the Orthodox Studies Center at Fordham University featured a lead article that announced: “A Vote for Trump is a Vote against the Ecumenical Patriarchate.”

Merrick Garland exits with his record under scrutiny and the Justice Department bracing for upheaval

The Associated Press 01-18-2025“Merrick Garland has not, I think, been a very effective public defender of the integrity and impartiality of the Department of Justice,” Andrew Kent, a Fordham University law school professor, said in an email. Given the issues the department faced, Garland needed “to explain to the public more frequently and more specifically how the Department’s actions are consistent with a commitment to nonpartisan and impartial justice.”

Biden’s Guantánamo legacy ‘one step forward, several steps backwards’
NPR 01-18-2025
When Biden first came into office, “there was a sense of aggressive movement” on working to shutter the prison and resolve its remaining legal cases, “and then it just sort of dissipated,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and author of the book The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days.

Only 37% Of Employees Say They Are Treated With Respect At Work
Forbes 01-19-2025
They’ll go beyond just doing what it takes to get a task done; and in that extra effort is where we can find innovation, resource/asset protection, incremental margin, and competitive advantage,” (said) Debbie Sabatani Hennelly, an adjunct professor at Fordham University law school’s corporate ethics and compliance program.

“A Burning House” — MLK and the American Experiment at The Apollo Theater
WYNC 01-19-2025
“I think we should start thinking about power and empowerment, because Dr. King not only believed in educating others about their individual power, but also in empowering not just individuals, but collective groups of people—not just in the U.S. South, but across the United States and the globe,” said Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University.

Even With a Ceasefire, Gaza Has No Future | Opinion
Newsweek 01-15-2025
“Even with a ceasefire, Gaza will remain a Mad Max world for over two million human souls. Its children, receiving little formal education and having witnessed horrors beyond description, will face a future utterly without hope. In Gaza, the emptiness of all the West’s promises, and the hypocrisy of proclaimed human rights standards, will remain on display for the world to see,” said John Davenport, professor of philosophy and director of peace and justice studies at Fordham University.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned
The New York Times 01-17-2025
But the federal government has historically pushed against too much foreign influence of any major communications network, said Zephyr Teachout, a professor of law at Fordham University. In 1975, President Gerald Ford established the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a multiagency body that vets foreign investments in U.S.-based assets.

After Indictment, Eric Adams Collects $250,000 From Donors
The New York Times 01-15-2025
Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University, said that the mayor’s fund-raising numbers showed that he still retained institutional strength. “If Eric Adams is still raising money after an indictment, resignations and questions about his management style and the future of the city, it points to the power of incumbency and the fact that labor and the business and real estate communities have been silent,” she said.

Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, and More SNL Stars Who Were Head Writers
NBC 01-16-2025
[Streeter] Seidell’s roots are in stand-up comedy. He began getting on stage to perform stand-up routines while in college at Fordham University, then took his writing talents to the website College Humor, where he eventually became editor-in-chief, according to a profile in Fordham Magazine. He was hired as a writer at SNL in 2014 and became a head writer in early 2022, midway through Season 47.

Russia and Iran become closer in their relationship with each other
Audacy 01-19-2025
Russia and Iran laid out a 20-year strategic partnership on Friday which will deepen their military and technological ties. This as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to cozy up to global powers hostile toward the U.S. For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchors Jennifer Hodges and Shane Shane Guinness spoke with Beth Knobel, Professor of Journalism at Fordham University and former CBS News Moscow Bureau Chief.

95% of workers say paychecks fail to keep up with cost of living spikes
HR Dive 01-16-2025
“Inflation continues to drive up the cost of living, with 85% of workers expecting increasing salaries to offset these pressures; however, only 11% have received raises commensurate with inflation, so far, creating a significant gap,” Giacomo Santangelo, a Monster economist (and professor at Fordham University) said in a statement. “The financial strain is evident.”

Under the Dome: Farley to put his photo in every NC elevator. Could it lift his profile?
The Charlotte Observer 01-16-2025
They also lifted her electoral prospects, according to a 2015 article co-authored by political scientist Jacob Smith while he was a doctoral student at UNC-Chapel Hill. “These places were really excited to vote Republican [for labor commissioner]just from the elevator,” Smith, now an associate professor of political science at Fordham University, said in a phone interview.

Talkin’ Bob Dylan Spinnerpalooza
The Dylantantes Podcast 01-25-2025
Nina Goss is Editor of or contributor to the volumes Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the 21st Century and Dylan at Play. She is a contributor to various anthologies and presented at the first World of Bob Dylan conference (2019), and Dylan and the Beats conference in Tulsa (2022). She teaches at Fordham University.

For Betty Gilpin, Coming to Broadway in Oh, Mary! is A Dream Come True
Broadway Direct 01-14-2025
“Speaking of taking over for Cole, let’s bring in Betty Gilpin. Betty, you majored in theater in college at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, but you have been very busy working in the TV and film world. This is your Broadway debut,” said Frank DiLella, reporter for Broadway Direct.

Lacking Trust
Politico 01-16-2025
Travis Proulx, formerly SUNY’s vice chancellor for agency and community engagement, has joined Fordham University as vice president for external affairs.

Smooth(ie) Operator: A Flight Attendant’s Dream Takes Off in Hell’s Kitchen
W42ST 01-17-2025
Noah Keller, a regular and student at nearby Fordham University, can attest. “It’s really nice to support a local business,” he said, while ordering. “I’ve tried all the different juice places around here, and my drink is the Berry Up smoothie with vanilla whey protein. It’s the most delicious thing, and a really good price.”

Fordham University’s historic Rose Hill Gymnasium turns 100 years old
WNBC 01-17-2025
Fordham University’s Rose Hill gym is celebrating a new milestone: 100 of continuous action, the longest in America. The gym remains the home court for the Rams men’s and women’s basketball teams.

Iconic Fordham University Rose Hill Gymnasium turns 100
Amsterdam News 01-16-2024
A century ago today, on Jan. 16, 1925, the Fordham Rams defeated Boston College, 46-16, in the first-ever game at Rose Hill Gymnasium, the oldest continually used NCAA Division I gym in the nation. Since that first game, Rose Hill Gym, on Fordham’s campus in the Bronx, has been used as an athletic facility except for the 1943–1944 academic year, when it was converted into a U.S. Army barracks during WWII.

Grand Old Gym at Rose Hill
NY Sports Day 01-16-2024
There’s a 100th anniversary up at Rose Hill in the Bronx. The campus at Fordham University has an old and new look, iconic and famed structures of lecture and study halls. The Jack Coffey field for football in the fall and baseball season where surrounding trees are in bloom. And history at the Lombardi Athletic Center in honor of the late Hall of Fame coach.

Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym celebrates 100 years of hoops
CluthPoints 01-16-2025
The Fordham Rams defeated Boston College 46-16 on January 16, 1925. It was a game of basketball. And it took place in the Rose Hill Gymnasium in The Bronx, New York. That game was the first played in what is now endearingly known as the historic Rose Hill Gymnasium. One hundred years later, Fordham University’s basketball teams – among other programs at the school – still call the gym home. It’s the oldest gym still being used by a NCAA Division I basketball team.

Fordham-UMass game broke so many records and had insane moments on Rose Hill’s 100-year anniversary
The New York Post 01-16-2024
Fordham’s tiny on-campus arena in The Bronx opened with a 46-16 win over Boston College on Jan. 16, 1925 and Wednesday’s game on the eve of the 100-year anniversary may as well have been a different sport with the teams scoring nearly four time as many points — albeit across 15 extra minutes.

Celebrating a Century of Basketball at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym
FootBoom 01-16-2025
This year marks a remarkable milestone in the annals of collegiate sports, as the Fordham University’s Rose Hill Gymnasium celebrates its centennial anniversary, solidifying its status as the oldest actively used gymnasium in NCAA Division I basketball.

College football history: Notable firsts and milestones
NCAA 01-20-2025
This is a quick guide to some of college football’s most notable firsts and historic moments. In 2019, the sport celebrated its 150th anniversary. First, the TL/DR version: The first college football game on TV was between Fordham University and Waynesburg University on Sept. 30, 1939. The game was broadcast by NBC and aired on W2XBS.

20 American Colleges Where the Cities Make Campus Life Even Better
Ultimate Travel Advice 01-09-2025
Fordham University, located in New York City, offers a unique blend of Jesuit tradition and urban vitality. This section examines how Fordham’s location enhances its academic programs and campus life, providing students with access to a wide range of professional opportunities and cultural experiences.

Rollins’ Latest Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Return Is Just Plain Insulting To Kelli Giddish
ScreenRant 01-19-2025
Rollins supposedly left to take a job teaching forensics at Fordham University, but the character had never shown interest in this career path before her exit story.

Denzel Washington claims freedom to preach
Arkansas Democrat Gazette 01-18-2025
The young Washington was in his mother’s Mount Vernon, N.Y., beauty parlor, after horrible grades forced a leave of absence from Fordham University. An elderly woman, Ruth Green, who many believed had unique spiritual gifts, looked him in the eye and asked for a piece of paper.

TikTok Ban: What’s It Really About? – VIDEO UNAVAILABLE
Spectrum News NY1 01-16-2025
“The court is careful to say that it’s limited to the circumstances in this case. Remember, this is a case that is principally about Chinese influence and control over the consumer, the information consumers get, and the data harvesting of U.S. consumers. So if you limit it to that, which is what the court tries to be careful on, it doesn’t reach as broadly.” said Olivier Sylvain, a Fordham Law professor.

What Happened
The New York Review of Books 01-11-2025
This particular care with archives and interpretation is the mark of [Magda] Teter’s career as a historian. At Fordham, where she is the chair of Judaic studies, she concentrates on premodern relations between Jewish and Christian peoples and how that lineage informs the present.

My twins are both in college, and their dorm rooms show just how different they really are from each other
Business Insider 01-12-2025
My twins both attend Fordham University in New York, but that’s where their similarities stop. Over the summer before their freshman year, my daughter asked me several times, “When can we go shopping for my college dorm room?” Once we picked a day, we asked her twin brother if he wanted to join, and his answer was, “Nope.”

How Tania Tetlow Is Leading Fordham University Through Higher Education’s Era of Uncertainty
Jesuits.org 01-07-2025
“One thing that Jesuit schools collectively have been doing and thinking about is, how do we better remind people what Jesuit education is? There’s a very important part of Jesuit tradition: When you go into a foreign land, you don’t just shout at people in Latin. And I think when we talk to Gen Z, it’s not enough to talk to them about cura personalis and magis, right? We have to translate into their language, so we’ve really been working hard to do that,” said Tania Tetlow, president of Fordham University.

Pitt names Jerry Dickinson as new law school dean
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 01-09-2025
Mr. Dickinson earned his juris doctor from Fordham University, his master of laws degree from the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his bachelor of arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross. He is a former Fulbright scholar to Johannesburg, South Africa.

Trump’s Pick for U.S. Attorney Is Enmeshed in Long Island Politics
The New York Times 01-07-2025
Anne Donnelly, the Nassau County district attorney and a Republican, said she had known Mr. [Joseph] Nocella since they were 18 and students at Fordham University and described him as fair-minded. She said his experience overseeing “a rainbow of cases,” along with his familiarity with the Eastern District’s terrain, would serve him well. “One thing about Joe: He certainly knows Long Island,” Ms. Donnelly said.

What is jury nullification and what does it mean for Luigi Mangione’s defense?
CNN 01-10-2025
“It’s not a legal defense sanctioned under the law,” said Cheryl Bader, associate professor of law at Fordham School of Law. “It’s a reaction by the jury to a legal result that they feel would be so unjust or morally wrong that they refuse to impose it, despite what the law says.”

Versatile and self-aware, Betty Gilpin moves with ease onscreen and onstage
Los Angeles Times 01-09-2025
Raised in New York and Connecticut, she [Betty Gilpin] attended Fordham University, where she studied acting with a Jesuit priest, Father George Drance, who encouraged her to use visual metaphors. “It just took me out of my own head, and made it a magic process, rather than a math equation: ‘Is this right or wrong?’” she says. “Thinking about it in an abstract way helps me shimmy my feathers for the coins.”

The Man Who Would Be King
Forbes 12-29-2024
“I think the NBA is thinking about who can be the next person who’s not just a great player but somebody who really resonates with the larger, wider group of sports fans,” says John Fortunato, a sports media professor at Fordham University.

Trump sentenced in hush money case, will not face jail or probation
The Washington Post 01-10-2025
Former federal prosecutor Cheryl Bader, a professor at Fordham Law School, said Merchan had been in a challenging position presiding over the case because he had to balance the norms of a criminal proceeding with Trump’s unusual status.

MTA Chair Janno Lieber on the First Week of Congestion Pricing; The State of the City Analysis; Anti-Social Americans
WNYC 01-10-2025
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, co-host of the podcast FAQNYC and the author of How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and Harry Siegel, FAQ NYC creator and co-host, Daily News columnist and editor at The City, talk about Thursday’s State of the City address by Mayor Eric Adams.

TikTok Case Before Supreme Court Pits National Security Against Free Speech
The New York Times 01-09-2025
Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham, said that was the wrong analysis. “Imposing foreign ownership restrictions on communications platforms is several steps removed from free speech concerns,” she wrote in a brief supporting the government, “because the regulations are wholly concerned with the firms’ ownership, not the firms’ conduct, technology or content.”

Trump spared jail, fine or probation at hush money sentencing days before inauguration
Reuters 01-11-2025
“He doesn’t want to be sentenced because that is the official judgment of him being a convicted felon,” said Cheryl Bader, a law professor at Fordham University in New York.

What Could a TikTok Ban Mean for Fashion?
WWD 01-10-2025
Susan Scafidi, academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, said, “The loss of TikTok, even on a temporary basis, would upend the influencer economy in the U.S. and eliminate a key marketing channel for many fashion brands, especially those with Millennial and younger audiences. Social media adapts quickly, and much of the activity on TikTok could migrate to other platforms, but business as usual in the form of product promotion would be at least briefly chaotic.“

70% of Americans are eligible to file their taxes for free starting today. Here’s what you need to know
Fortune 01-13-2025
But, for those that owe money to the IRS, Stan Veliotis, associate professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business says he would not file a tax return early. That’s because retroactive tax law changes are not uncommon. In 2021, changes to unemployment compensation tax resulted in income from 2020 being taxed differently for some Americans.

Political warfare: Why the House accusations against Liz Cheney are baseless and wrong
The Hill 01-07-2025
“Ironically, the interim report accuses the Select Committee of weaponizing the professional conduct rules by unjustifiably instigating an ethics complaint against Hutchinson’s first lawyer. But the report then opts to play tit for tat. It is high time for both sides to lay down their weapons, reserving accusations of criminal and professional misconduct for situations where they are justified, rather than using baseless accusations for rhetorical effect,” said Bruce Green, professor at Fordham Law School and director of the Stein Center for Law & Ethics.

Pope Francis names Cardinal McElroy next Archbishop of Washington, DC
The Tablet 01-06-2025
“Sending McElory to Washington is not about trying to tip the scales in a more liberal direction,” said David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Centre on Religion and Culture. “It’s about promoting solidarity over division, and building what Francis has called ‘a better kind of politics’ rather than indulging in the worst kind of partisanship.”

Trump taps Nassau County Judge Joseph Nocella Jr. as U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of New York
New York Daily News 01-06-2025
Nocella earned his bachelor’s degree from Fordham University, where Trump also studied before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and later graduated from Columbia Law School, Newsday has reported.

PMC Vice Chairman Gerry Byrne Receives U.S. Navy’s Top Civilian Honor
WWD 01-06-2025
Byrne, who is a Fordham University Military Hall of Fame inductee and established the Marine Corps Birthday Ball with the actor and former Marine Harvey Keitel, emphasized the importance of integrity and leadership.

Trump to be sentenced in hush money case days before inauguration
Freedom Online 01-10-2025
Cheryl Bader, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, said “he doesn’t want to be sentenced because that is the official judgement of him being a convicted felon.”

Elon Musk: Trump’s Strategic Whisperer
Reformatorisch Dagblad 01-06-2025
Are Musk’s power and influence unstoppable? Political scientist Paul Levinson, affiliated with Fordham University in New York, thinks that there will come a time when the tech billionaire will reach his limits. “Musk has a mega-ego, but so does Trump. That will clash at some point.

Trump taps Nassau Judge Joseph Nocella Jr. to be U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Newsday 01-06-2025
Nocella, a graduate of Columbia Law School and Fordham University, will replace Breon Peace as the top federal prosecutor for the federal court district covering Suffolk, Nassau, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Students from Liberty Partnerships Program in the Bronx win financial services competition
Bronx Times 01-09-2025
The event was put together by SuitUp, an organization that works to equip students for life beyond the classroom by developing, organizing and implementing engaging educational competitions in communities across the country and beyond. This was the organization’s third annual Battle of the Boroughs competition, which was held in partnership with Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business and Fordham Foundry.

John Countryman, child actor who became diplomat, dies at 91
The Washington Post 01-09-2025
After he [John Countryman] graduated from Fordham University in 1954 with a bachelor’s degree in English, Mr. Countryman received a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Berlin as his introduction to Europe and foreign affairs.

New dean appointed at University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh Business Times 01-09-2025
A Fulbright Scholar, [Jerry] Dickinson studied comparative constitutional law and housing law at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dickinson earned his JD from Fordham University. He has twice run for office, most recently vying for the Democratic nomination for the 12th Congressional District’s seat in the U.S. House in 2022.

Walking It Like You Talk It!:The Extraordinary Life of Donna Sue Johnson
Lavender Magazine 01-09-2025
This bold statement “stuck in my mind,” Johnson recalls, and inspired her to attend a Saturday MSW program at Fordham University from 1997-2001. “It turned out to be a magnificent academic experience,” she says, and this led to work as an emergency room psychiatric clinician where she evaluated patients for level of care, an occupation she continued for 20 years.

The First Day of Panama’s Canal
The New York Times 01-05-2025
Mr. [David] Gonzalez held on to his press pass for the event (“Actos de Transferencia del Canal a Panamá”) and gave it to the Museum at The Times. (He also donated an early digital camera.) Mr. Gonzalez retired from The Times last year and is currently exhibiting his photographs at Fordham University’s campus in Manhattan.

Luigi Mangione appears in court
CBS News 12-19-2024
“So, usually, murder is prosecuted by the state where the murder occurs. But here we have this parallel federal case which involves charges of interstate stalking. So, in other words, he planned this murder, allegedly out of state, traveled on interstate highways to New York, committed the murder here, and then allegedly left the state. So we see those charges involving interstate travel firearm charges, which are also within the federal jurisdiction,” said Cheryl Bader, clinical associate professor of law at Fordham University.

How 4 Well-Known Companies Recovered From Their Crisis Situations
Forbes 12-26-2024
A crisis can be a tipping point for whether a business survives the situation, or succumbs to it. JetBlue’s crisis “during an ice storm that stranded passengers for hours was a defining moment for the airline,” Stacey Cohen, an adjunct marketing and public relations professor at Fordham University, recalled in an email interview.

Can Trump pull a Nixon?: The new president can help end the outdated Electoral College
New York Daily News 12-22-2024
“Given that he has now won the presidency both ways, his support for its abolition could carry enormous weight and garner the bipartisan backing that is required for a constitutional amendment. I know it may be hard to believe that Trump would do this, but if Nixon can raise a glass to Premier Zhou Enlai in Beijing, then Trump can help democratize our elections,” said Jerry Goldfeder, director of the Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project.

Denzel Washington’s Journey to Hollywood Titan in Unseen Interviews | ET Vault Unlocked
Entertainment Tonight 12-19-2024
Denzel [Washington] did go to college. He played basketball and football at Fordham University. He graduated in 1977. And talk about full circle – as Denzel played a doctor on TV, we were there as he got his first of three honorary doctorates.

“Much Better Than The Book”: Conclave Gets Strong Review From Pope Expert, Though The Ending Is “Quite Absurd”
Screen Rant 11-26-2024
David Gibson, the Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, explains why he believes the Conclave movie is better than the book it is based on. The story of Conclave follows Cardinal Lawrence, who is tasked with organizing a conclave of cardinals to vote for a new pope after the death of the previous one.

Trump Admin Gave Tariff Exemptions to Companies that Donated to Republicans: Study
The Latin Times 01-06-2024
“Even though we did not find an impact of donations to Trump’s first inauguration on the chance of being granted an exemption,” said Grace Lee, associate professor at Fordham University, and another co-author of the report, “it is possible that donations to the inaugural committee may increase the chance of being exempted from tariffs in Trump’s second term.”

Biden can’t pardon Luigi Mangione on state charges | Fact check
USA Today 12-16-2024
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is the entity that charged Mangione with second-degree murder, meaning New York Gov. Kathy Hochul could pardon him, Fordham University law professor Cheryl Bader told USA TODAY.

Bingdi Chunyu: Harnessing Data Science to Foster Inclusion and Equity in POC Communities
LA Weekly 12-17-2024
Bingdi’s [Chunyu] journey began with her pursuit of a Master of Business Analytics at Fordham University, where she excelled academically as a research assistant, contributing to multiple machine learning projects. She was recognized as one of the Global Analytics Competition finalist for her outstanding achievements, and was consistently included on the Dean’s List for academic excellence.

Going Broad
Columbia Journalism Review 12-16-2024
When I asked Olivier Sylvain, an administrative law scholar at Fordham University, about Carr’s ambition to regulate content moderation on social media by reinterpreting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, he replied, “You have to explain the agency’s decision to switch from saying you don’t have authority over something to saying you do, given all the steps you have to take when you change a position like that and the scrutiny it’s subject to, never mind the constitutional scrutiny,” he said.

The First Day of Panama’s Canal
The New York Times 01-05-2025
Mr. [David] Gonzalez held on to his press pass for the event (“Actos de Transferencia del Canal a Panamá”) and gave it to the Museum at The Times. (He also donated an early digital camera.) Mr. Gonzalez retired from The Times last year and is currently exhibiting his photographs at Fordham University’s campus in Manhattan.

All the Light We Cannot See: Urgency for Understandable Academic Writing
Fair Observer 12-27-2024
[Leonard] Cassuto is a professor of English at Fordham University in NYC. He has written several books and articles on how to improve the American higher education system, including his latest, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter. He wrote the book for two reasons: “academic writing has a bad public reputation” and indeed, “reading most academic writing is work” — “both in the literal and the figurative sense.”

“One Technical Problem”: Conclave’s Secret Cardinal Is Realistic, But A Pope Expert Explains 1 Flaw That Would Upend The Story
Screen Rant 12-27-2024
The start of Conclave has one flaw with the secret cardinal explained by David Gibson, Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. The story of Conclave follows Cardinal Lawrence, who is tasked with organizing a conclave of cardinals to choose a new pope.

A college professor discusses Putin’s comments post-Azerbaijan plane crash
Audacy 12-28-2024
Putin said the country’s air defense systems were repelling Ukrainian drones and stopped short of taking responsibility for the incident. For more on this, KCBS Radio’s Shane Guinness spoke with Professor Beth Knobel, Professor of Journalism at Fordham University and former CBS News Moscow Bureau Chief.

Inside the strange carnival with surreal rides by Dali and Basquiat that was lost for decades — but is now open in NYC
The New York Post 12-25-2024
“We just saw it and we knew we had to do it. Since we were in eighth grade, we’ve always wanted to do this, so we might as well get married today!” said Rory Dwyer, 19, a student at Fordham University.

Former President Jimmy Carter dies at 100
NBC Los Angeles 12-29-2024
“He looked around at the federal judiciary and he said, ‘You all look like me, but that’s not how the great United States looks,’” Ginsburg said to a Fordham University Law School forum in 2016.

Johnny Russell, Shirley Temple’s Co-Star in ‘The Blue Bird,’ Dies at 91
The Hollywood Reporter 12-31-2024
When he [Johnny Russell] and his parents decided he should have a “normal” childhood, Countryman attended the Jesuit military prep school St. Francis Xavier in New York and Fordham University and spent a year at the University of Berlin on a Fulbright fellowship.

King Kong Ain’t Got Sh*t On Me: Celebrating Denzel Washington’s 70th Birthday With His Best Performances Throughout His Career
Global Grind 12-30-2024
[Denzel] Washington ended up attending Fordham University where he earned a BA in Drama and Journalism. He worked as creative arts director of the overnight summer camp at Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut following a period of indecision on which major to study and taking a semester off.

Denzel Washington Joked That He Started Acting to Avoid Getting Punished by His Mom
Showbiz CheatSheet 01-02-2025
Thanks to his mother’s influence, [Denzel] Washington furthered his education by going to Fordham University, where he intended to become a doctor. “I was actually pre-med. I thought, ‘You go to college, be a doctor.’ Then, I went into political science, pre-law … I found out I wasn’t doctor material, I found out I wasn’t lawyer material, then I started studying journalism,” Washington said.

This week in Christian history: United Methodist Building opened, Saint Abo martyred
The Christian Post 01-05-2025
“Among the various causes championed by [John Joseph] Hughes, his influence is felt especially in the realm of higher education. He founded Manhattan College, St. John’s College (now Fordham University), Fordham Prep, the Academy of Mount St. Vincent (not the College of Mount Saint Vincent), and Marymount College,” noted Old New York Tours.

Growing up Italian at a New York institution
ABC13 01-02-2025
After graduating from Notre Dame High School and Fordham University, [Vivian] Cardia became the first Italian-American woman to trade on the American Stock Exchange. Chaotic moments during the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash stick with her today. Vivian eventually went on to take over the family business.

Wabanaki basketry and holiday flamenco: The best of L.A. arts this weekend
Los Angeles Times 12-20-2024
A graduate of New York’s Fordham University and the University of British Columbia, [Bobby] Garcia directed and produced over 50 plays and musicals across multiple international markets and won three Aliw Awards for direction (the premiere live entertainment award in the Philippines).

Meet Michelle Cheramie, the New Orleans animal rescuer who won’t give up til Scrim is safe
Nola.com 12-25-2024
[Michelle] Cheramie, 55, comes from Cut Off, Louisiana – Cajun country – where, she said, everybody knew everybody. In college at LSU, Fordham University in New York, and Nicholls State University, she earned two bachelor’s degrees, one in psychology and the other in art. She began her multifaceted career working in a Raceland mental health facility.

The Mets just invested $765 million in their glow up. Can they be bigger than the Yankees?
NBC News 12-11-2024
A region’s second-place franchise can emerge from shadows if an owner is willing to shell out cash, Fordham University professor Mark Conrad said, citing the NBA’s Steve Ballmer, who has remarkably made L.A. Clippers games fashionable events. “The focus of New York baseball could be shifting now,” said Conrad, who teaches sports law at Fordham’s business school.

At Harvard, US academics compare notes on a year of post-Oct. 7 campus antisemitism
The Times of Israel 12-12-2024
Magda Teter, the Shvidler chair of Jewish studies at Fordham University and president of the American Academy for Jewish Research, lamented “social media culture that allows you only to like or block, a short-form quickness of reaction … We have to relearn to disagree with each other, not to cancel each other.”

Is It Ever OK to Go Barefoot in Public?
The New York Times 12-16-2024
According to Susan Scafidi, the founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, “Most barefoot bans simply reflect private dress codes put in place by restaurants, retailers and others concerned about safety and their own potential liability for splinters, slips and stubbed toes.”

The dean of the state Senate has seen it all
City & State New York 12-11-2024
The state Senate is saying goodbye to its dean as state Sen. Neil Breslin [FCRH ‘64] prepares to say his final farewell to the chamber after 28 years in office. First elected in 1997, the Albany-area native has seen a lot, from entering in the minority to presiding over a legislative coup and becoming part of the Democratic supermajority.

Juan Soto’s 15-year deal has short-term benefits that outweigh long-term risks, experts say
Newsday 12-09-2024
Soto, 26, who agreed to the largest guaranteed contract in North American sports history at 15 years and $765 million, might be costing baseball’s richest owner a whole lot of money, but he also stands to elevate the franchise, increase ticket sales, provide profitable merchandising opportunities and raise TV ratings for the team’s flagship network, SNY, said Mark Conrad, professor of law and ethics at Fordham University, and director of its sports business concentration.

New York Red Bulls Sign Goalkeeper Ryan Meara to New MLS Contract
Red Bull 12-09-2024
Prior to New York, [Ryan] Meara was a four-year starter at Fordham University, where he was a three-time All-Atlantic selection. He holds Fordham’s all-time record for shutouts in a career with 31 and was named Atlantic 10 Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior in 2011.

Antisemitism on Campuses
Harvard Magazine 12-12-2024
Magda Teter, professor of Judaic studies and history at Fordham University, spoke about what antisemitism studies could learn from other fields. “Black studies and racism studies study the impact of racism on its victims,” she said. “Antisemitism studies make the victims invisible or implicated. We study the perpetrators, we study the antisemites.”

Battle Of The Boroughs 2024
The Bronx Daily 12-09-2024
SuitUp, a nonprofit entity that strives to increase career readiness for all students through innovative business plan competitions, has partnered with the Fordham Foundry, Fordham University’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurship within the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, a thought leader in business education for the future and in the areas of social and corporate responsibility, to encourage more students—especially those from underrepresented communities—to consider careers in financial services.

NYC mayoral hopefuls want a rent freeze, but tenants may have to wait until 2026
Brick Underground 12-10-2024
New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie committed to appointing “members of the rent guidelines board that will be putting our renters first,” at the Saturday forum at Fordham University. Attorney Jim Walden said he supports freezing the rents for tenants who live in buildings owned by landlords who will not disclose their operating costs and income, Gothamist reported.

What is the Heisman trophy made of? Height, weight and who designed it
Diario AS 12-10-2024
The now-famous pose wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment idea. Eliscu consulted Jim Crowley, head coach at Fordham University and a member of Notre Dame’s legendary “Four Horsemen.” Crowley’s players demonstrated sidesteps, forward drives, and, of course, the signature stiff-arm move, which Eliscu painstakingly recreated in clay. After rigorous critique and adjustments—including a Notre Dame football team endorsement – the design was finalized.

Scott Bessent, Trump’s Pick for Treasury Secretary, Doesn’t Fit His Loyalist Mold
The New York Times 12-10-2024
Mr. Trump’s post on Truth Social announcing Mr. Bessent’s selection made no mention of his husband, Mr. [John] Freeman, 62, who grew up in the Bronx. Mr. Freeman was an athlete (football, rugby) whose father died young, and he attended Fordham University and night classes at Brooklyn Law before joining the Bronx district attorney’s office.

Bing Crosby’s 7 Children: All About the ‘White Christmas’ Singer’s Family
People Magazine 12-15-2024
Harry [Crosby] now works in business as an investment banker. He began his career at Lehman Brothers and went on to assume partner roles at Cranemere and Snow Phipps. In 2019, he joined Trilantic North America as a partner of business development. Harry received a master’s degree from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and a business degree from Fordham University.

Denzel Washington’s 5 decades of groundbreaking excellence in film
Rolling Out 12-10-2024
The Boys & Girls Club played a pivotal role in his development, while his [Denzel Washington] father’s work as a Pentecostal minister and his mother’s entrepreneurial spirit instilled discipline and work ethic. After his parents’ divorce at age 14, boarding school experiences and later studies at Fordham University set the stage for his acting career.

Denzel Washington: A legacy of excellence in film and beyond
The Grio 12-09-2024
After [Denzel] Washington’s parents, Denzel Sr. and Lennis, divorced when he was 14, he and his sister were sent to a boarding school in New Windsor, New York. Post-high school, Washington made his way to Fordham University.

First look: Future Days Beer Co. readies for debut in Northern Liberties
Philadelphia Business Journal 12-11-2024
First reported by the Business Journal in 2023, Future Days is owned by Nick Mata and Sean McGuire, who met while in school at Fordham University and have been homebrewing together for more than 10 years. In 2021, the duo signed a lease on the building, which had previously been vacant for 15 years, according to Mata. They spent the next three years converting it into a brewery while attempting to maintain historical aspects of the property.

Origin of new Northern Liberties brewery can be traced to college apartment bathtub
Philly Voice 12-11-2024
Future Days Beer Co. opens Thursday in a renovated carriage house in Northern Liberties, but its original home was much more modest. The brewery was born in an off-campus apartment near Fordham University in the Bronx, where two college juniors [Nick Mata and Sean McGuire] decided to give beer-making a spin.

Bears sign three to Division I programs
Elgin Courier 12-10-2024
Offensive lineman Jaxon Taylor will be heading to Fordham University. As a critical protector for sophomore quar terback Weston Nielsen, Taylor anchored Bastrop’s offensive line and helped power the team’s success. He fielded offers f rom Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Bryant, per 247Sports.