Fordham Conversations

Fordham Conversations: Positive Marketing & City Bike Safety

7.7.12 at 7:00am by Robin Shannon, Connor Ryan

Dawn Lerman and Luke Kachersky from the Center for Positive Marketing

Fordham University recently launched a research center that looks at how marketing can improve consumer’s lives.

…Who is Alex Trebek

6.30.12 at 7:00am by Robin Shannon

Alex Trebek is famous for entertaining millions for over two-decades as the host of Jeopardy! More recently this pop-culture Icon came to Fordham University to share advice and his story with the Fordham community. On this week’s Fordham Conversations….Who is Alex Trebek?

The Corporate Code Plus The Really Terrible Orchestra

6.2.12 at 7:00am by Robin Shannon, Jake Neher

Robert Hinkley holding his book Time to Change Corporations

Author and Fordham Alumnus Robert Hinkley talks about his book “Time to Change Corporations: Closing the Citizenship Gap.”

CitySquash

5.26.12 at 7:00am by Robin Shannon, Mary Wilson

CitySquash is recruiting inner-city students to up their game and their grades, and encouraging them to become competitive applicants for elite high schools and colleges.

Wild Man

4.28.12 at 7:00am by Robin Shannon, Mary Wilson

The words stage right and left painted on a white wall

"Wild Man" is the one-man show of Matthew Maguire's own true-life stories. In this autobiographical work, Maguire is looking for that elusive connection to the audience and a performance that comes from "deeper in the bones."

Muslims and Middle Easterners in New York

2.25.12 at 8:00am by Jake Neher

Muslim Boy standing on a corner in Sunnyside Queens

It's difficult to skim through the day's news headlines without coming across something relating to New York City's Muslim and Middle Eastern Communities. Activists within those communities are responding to newly uncovered spying operations by the NYPD, and earlier this month a number of New Yorkers gathered to protest the presence of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who says he's in the city for medical treatment.

Resurgence

11.23.11 at 1:44pm by Robin Shannon

One of the many partners helping with Lincoln Square‘s growth has been Fordham University. On This week's Fordham Conversations the President of the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, Monica Blum talks about the evolution of the area. Then WFUV’s Marisa Galdi looks at the resurgence of the double-crested Cormorant, a bird whose population was almost wiped out.

WFUV's Journalist In-Training Talk With....

10.20.11 at 10:01am by Robin Shannon

Some past Fordham Conversation shows were developed produced and hosted by WFUV Journalist in-training.

A Conversation with Former CNN Host Eliot Spitzer

7.8.11 at 2:45pm by Robin Shannon

Thane Rosenbaum and Eliot Spitzer on stage

Eliot Spitzer was cut from CNN's prime-time lineup this week. Spitzer spent less time as a TV host than he did as governor of New York. As many await word on Spitzer’s next move, this Fordham Conversations will revisit an interview between Spitzer and director of the Forum on Law, Culture and Society at Fordham Law, Thane Rosenbaum .

Wanderlust

6.20.11 at 11:49am by Robin Shannon

three motorcycle riders in front of their bike's and a truck.

By day Renato Frison is a mild-mannered computer support manager at Fordham University's Walsh Library. But at night he hops on his hog and heads for the open road. Recently Renato's wanderlust took him on an 11,000 mile motorcycle trip from Bronxville, New York to Brazil.