Beyond The Swipe: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Biometrics
Forbes 01-27-2025
Generative AI is increasingly being utilized by organizations to simulate potential attack scenarios, such as bots attempting to mimic user behavior, to enhance cybersecurity defenses. For instance, researchers at Fordham University are leveraging generative AI to create a wider range of possible attack scenarios by analyzing computer traffic data. This approach enables their machine learning models to detect various types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more effectively.
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.”
