Research

With a $2 million grant from the Bangladesh government, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Ph.D., assistant professor in computer and information sciences at Fordham, is working to strengthen his native country’s ability to use artificial intelligence.  “Once the project is completed, it will give us a framework under which hundreds of researchers can build interesting AI models …

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This year, California became the first state in the U.S. to implement legislation that delays school start times. However, schools across the nation are still split on the best time to begin school each morning.  Fordham psychology professor Tiffany Yip, Ph.D., the mother of two teenage students herself, said she wanted to know how much …

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Gesturing to the stained-glass image of St. Ignatius in the Keating First auditorium, Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham, said that the founder of the Jesuit order charged his followers with nearly an impossible task: to follow the greater glory of God or, as it’s known in Jesuit terms, magis. “Remember you are men …

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An idea from a student inspired the Fordham Graduate School of Education’s first all-day retreat and research celebration for doctoral candidates at the Lincoln Center campus on May 4.  “As a doctoral student who came into the program online during the pandemic, I thought it would be wonderful to bring our doctoral programs together,” said …

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Fordham graduate student Xiangyu Tao is studying how racial discrimination via social media affects adolescents of color. Her research was published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence this past fall.  “Xiangyu’s research represents an innovative and methodologically rigorous approach to understanding how racially biased social media posts affect the mental health of Asian, African …

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Chemist Nako Nakatsuka is developing tiny sensors that could revolutionize our ability to monitor and understand all kinds of health problems, including brain disease. From remembering song lyrics to pouring a cup of coffee, every impulse in the brain starts on a tiny scale, with an electrical signal firing between brain cells across a synapse …

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Fordham College at Lincoln Center Dean Laura Auricchio, Ph.D., has played a key role in a new research platform launched in May by the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, the national library of France. The website, titled “France in the Americas,” brings together archives related to France and the Western Hemisphere in a collaboration that includes …

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Three Fordham faculty members highlighted their yearlong scientific research on COVID-19 in the Zoom webinar “The Anatomy of a Pandemic” on May 19.  “It’s clear to see that there is very influential work being done right here at Fordham on COVID-19, from the beginning of the pandemic and following to its peak and now as …

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Paul Daniels, a second-year doctoral student in Fordham’s theology program, received a prestigious Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for his research. His work focuses on how lessons from a prominent 20th-century Black theologian and civil rights activist can be applied to contemporary life, especially through the perspective of Black queer Christians like Daniels himself.  “There’s a …

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Devin Rocks is still at least a year away from earning his Ph.D. in biology. But the Rockaway Park, Queens, native is already making a splash in the academic world, thanks to his work examining the role that fluctuating sex hormones can have on mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. This spring, the Organization …

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In the early months of the pandemic, senior undergraduate researchers at Fordham College at Rose Hill celebrated their hard work over Zoom with congratulatory emojis and a homemade poster created by dean Rachel Annunziato’s nine-year-old twins. But this year, students were able to commemorate the 14th annual undergraduate research symposium both online and in person. …

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