The Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) is a global-balanced fund in which students manage a portfolio of the major asset classes of equities, fixed income, options & exotics, commodities and real estate. Students involved in SMIF manage $2 million of the University’s endowment.
Gianna Rafanello, FCRH ’23, has conducted two research projects in the field of psychology during her time here at Fordham. Her second project, which she is currently finishing up, dealt with feelings of indebtedness and gratitude amongst groups of high school and college students.
The United Student Government’s (USG) Sustainability Committee hosted Earth Week, a week of programming at Fordham from Saturday, April 15 to Saturday, April 22 in honor of Earth Day.
This semester, the Sky Campus Happiness program came to Fordham University. Sky Campus Happiness is a well-being program aimed at supporting college and university students.
In fall 2023, clubs were informed of a change to the excused absence policy. Recently, however, the policy has been restored to its original form, with clubs once again able to request excused absences.
Ignatian Q is a conference that creates community, develops spirituality and affirms humanity for LGBTQ+ students at Jesuit schools. In 2014, the first Ignatian Q conference was held here at Fordham, and on Friday April 21, it returned.
On April 16, President Tania Tetlow sent an email to the Fordham community introducing Fordham’s environmental action plan: Laudato Si’. The action plan is a guide to a seven-year transformation process for Fordham’s campuses.
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• April 26, 2023
On April 19, Fordham’s English Department hosted the Reid Writers of Color Series. This year, the Reid Writers of Color hosted Angie Cruz, a novelist whose primary works include “How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water” and “Dominicana”.
Fordham students celebrated Ignatian Week on April 18, by hosting a showcase to publicly present on the themes of Ignatian spirituality. The showcase, “Unchained: Ignatian Spirituality Beyond Institutional Bounds,” was moderated by David De La Fuente, FCLC ’10, and featured one of his classes, THEO 3854: “Ignatian Spirituality.”
Fordham hosted its 16th annual undergraduate research symposium in an effort to showcase the research that Fordham students had been working on throughout the past year on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
