Fordham Research Newsletter Volume I, Issue II May 2017
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Fordham Research Newsletter Volume I, Issue II May 2017 Research Highlights Letter from the Chief Research Officer Fall 2016 - Spring 2017: A Snapshot Digital Humanities Sym- Welcome to the second Research Highlights posium at NYU issue of the Fordham Re- for Fall 2016 — Columbia-NYU Research Interdisciplinary Awards search Newsletter. This Spring 2017 Fellows: 6 newsletter marks the first recipients Outstanding Externally Fund- full academic year since Grant awards Columbia-NYU listingResearch Fellows - 6 over ed Research Awardees: 5 my appointment as Chief the previous OEFRA (Outstanding 6 months Externally Funded Research Awardees) - 5 Research Officer. We hope that Faculty this Fellowships newsletter - 82 ?? Faculty Fellowships: 88 Faculty Research Grantees or Recipients - 31 It’s been a very exciting will encourage and inspire all Interdisciplinary - 2 Faculty Research Grantee or year with a number of of Fordham’s researchers, from Institutional Grant Preparation Grants - 3 Recipients: 31 significant initiatives of undergraduates Book publication to seasonedawards - 10 scholars, to continue to delve Interdisciplinary Research which I am very proud. Awards: 2 We have worked together deeper in your field of study. chaired by Dr. Jim Lewis, in starting, sustaining It is also our desire that re- Institutional Grant Prepara- for their dedicated contri- and developing our Ford- searchers reach across their butions to the University’s tion Fund Awards: 3 ham research enterprise. disciplines and partner in new research efforts. Together Book Publication Awards: 13 In some cases, we have ways with other scholars. we continue to enhance the partnered with other uni- I want to express my sincere objectives of Fordham Uni- versities in new ways, appreciation to Provost Ste- versity’s mission. such as with the NYU and phen Freedman and Dr. Jona- Columbia University re- than Crystal, Associate Vice Please do not hesitate to Inside this issue: search tours and the NYU President, for their strong reach out to me with your -Fordham-Columbia Re- support and visionary guid- questions or concerns. search Fellows program. ance since my arrival last Sponsored Research Day– 2 Some of the other high- year to Fordham. George Hong, Ph.D. A Smash! lights of this issue in- Our faculty and staff mem- Research Tour at NYU 4 clude: bers deserve much credit for Chief Research Officer and Sponsored Research the accomplishments high- Associate Vice President for Day at Fordham lighted in this newsletter. I Academic Affairs Research Tour at Columbia 5 Earth Month Re- also want to thank the Uni- [email protected] University search Colloquium versity Research Council, Earth Month Research 5 Colloquium Institutional Research Collaborations with NYU Digital Humanities 6 Columbia University and New York University Symposium NYU-Fordham-Columbia 6 Fordham University has developed its institutional research collaborations with NYU and Columbia through the following initiatives: Fellows Selected Selected six Fordham-NYU and Columbia research fellows to develop joint research projects in Internal Funding Awards 8 the summer of 2017 Sponsored the Earth Month Research Colloquium presented by the Executive Director of Colum- bia Earth Institute and co-sponsored NYU Digital Humanities Symposium Newsletter editor - David Heston Organized two research exploration tours at NYU and Columbia Newsletter layout - Veronica Mueller Co-sponsored the Ph.D. Colloquium on Business joined by NYU and Columbia Ph.D. students PAGE 2 FORDHAM RESEARCH NEWSLETTER VOLUME I, ISSUE II Sponsored Research Day — A Smash! On April 5 in Walsh Library on the ners of the Outstanding Externally Rose Hill campus, Fordham held its Funded Research Awards. In his first ever Sponsored Research Day. opening remarks, President Father The purpose of the event-filled day McShane spoke of the need for won- was to raise the visibility of the re- der at the start of any research pro- search enterprise at Fordham with- ject as well as the ongoing cycle of in the university. discovery as the research advances. Provost Stephen Freedman intro- In the morning, a Grant Writing duced each winner and presented Workshop was held to share ideas them with their award which includ- on both the pre and post-award ed a check for $1,000. phases of external grant writing. Father Joseph McShane gives opening Kris Wolff and Beth Torres Each of the awardees spoke of the remarks at Sponsored Research Day’s (Director and Grants Officer, re- great personal encouragement of be- awards presentation for the five Outstand- spectively) in Fordham’s Office of ing honored in this way as they ac- ing Externally Funded Research Awardees Sponsored Programs led the discus- cepted their award. They acknowl- sion. edged their colleagues and students At mid-day, another of the many who had provided key support. firsts of this event took place – the presentations to the first-time win- The five 2017 Outstanding Externally Funded Research Awardees are: Sciences Silvia Finnemann Professor, Biological Sciences Social Sciences Celia Fisher Marie Ward Doty University Chair Professor in Ethics Humanities Stephen Grimm Professor, Philosophy Interdisciplinary Research Jennifer Gordon Professor, Law Junior Faculty Research Marc Conte Assistant Professor, Economics After the awards ceremony, Dr. Walter L. Goldschmidts, Vice President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory deliv- ered the keynote speech of the day. He reflected on his impressive career in supporting and nurturing research that has developed in the laboratories he has directed. As an outcome of Dr. Goldschmidt’s speech, Fordham hopes to devel- op an institutional research collaboration between Fordham and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. George Hong, Fordham CRO, addresses the participants Photo by Dana Maxson VOLUME I, ISSUE II FORDHAM RESEARCH NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 Sponsored Research Day — A Smash! Cont. Also that afternoon, eleven speakers from a number of Fordham’s research centers gave short presentations regard- ing the work of their centers. The 11 presentations of this Fordham Research Center Forum were given by: Presenter Name/Affiliation Center Dr. Thomas J. Daniels Louis Calder Center Dr. George Demacopoulos/ Graduate School of Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center Arts & Sciences Dr. Deborah Denno/ Fordham School of Law Founding Director of the Neuroscience and Law Center Dr. Celia Fisher/ Graduate School of Arts & Center for Ethics Education Sciences Dr. Sean J. Griffith/ Fordham School of Law Corporate Law Center Dr. Janna C. Heyman & Dr. Linda White- Henry C. Ravazzin Center on Aging and Intergenerational Studies Ryan/Graduate School of Social Service Dr. Robin A. Lenhardt/ Fordham School of Law Center on Race, Law & Justice Dr. Michael Pirson/ Gabelli School of Business Center for Humanistic Management Dr. W. "RP" Raghupathi/ Gabelli School of Center for Digital Transformation Business Dr. Falguni Sen/ Gabelli School of Business Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center Dr. An Yan & Dr. Iftekhar Hasan/ Gabelli Center for Research in Contemporary Finance School of Business From left to right: Stephen Freedman, Fr. Joseph McShane, Jennifer Gordon, Celia Fisher, Marc Conte, Silvia Finnemann, John Drummond (accepting award on behalf of winner Stephen Grimm), George Hong Photo by Dana Maxson PAGE 4 FORDHAM RESEARCH NEWSLETTER VOLUME I, ISSUE II Research Tour at NYU On December 2, 2016 twenty-three ber of the NYU laboratories with Fordham guests were given a tour This presentation was followed by a researchers at work, many of whom of a number of research facilities at tour of the site’s laboratories. took the time to explain their cur- NYU, and listened to related This tour lends itself to establishing rent projects and answer questions presentations including: new institutional agreements for from the group. Site visit and tour of NYU’s joint research. The selection of NYU As an example, the group received a Center for Neural Science -Fordham-Columbia research fel- presentation at the Center for Neu- lows is a good example of the deep- A presentation by the Director ral Science which began with a ening institutional connections with of the Marron Institute of Ur- PowerPoint slide with two side-by- these fellow New York City re- ban Management side views of the same New York search institutions. [Please see the Site visit and tour of NYU’s City skyline – one image clearly article titled “Fordham-NYU- Center for Genomics and Sys- focused (the Adult view) and the Columbia Fellows Selected for Sum- tems Biology other a shadowy outline (the Infant mer 2017” on page 6] A Presentation on Arts/ view). The question posed was, Humanities [Please see a relat- “How does the adult view come ed article on page 6 regarding about?” And so, this general scien- NYU Digital Humanities Sym- tific inquiry marks the starting posium which took place on point for one of the specific lines of April 28, 2017] research pursued at this Center. The Fordham group viewed a num- (From L to R) Ulrich Baer, Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversi- ty NYU; Paul Horn, Senior Vice Provost for Research NYU; George Hong, Ford- ham Chief Research Officer Photo by Kris Wolff Fordham and Columbia faculty and administrators participating in the Research Tour at Columbia Earth Institute VOLUME I, ISSUE II FORDHAM RESEARCH NEWSLETTER PAGE 5 Research Tour at Columbia University On April 7, 2017 a similar research The Earth Institute Center for