Chomri Khayi is developing a land management strategy for the 113-acre property that addresses invasive species and helps give students boots-on-the-ground research opportunities.
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Every year, over a billion birds collide with buildings around the country. An estimated 600 million die immediately or succumb to their injuries on the ground. But what about the …
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Guy Robinson, Ph.D., maintains and collects pollen samples from the city's only official pollen monitoring station, located at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. Photo by Rafael Villa.
Michael Kausch has a very mixed relationship with some of the smallest living things on earth. On the one hand, Kausch, a Ph.D. student based at Fordham’s Louis Calder Center …
With the effects of climate change drawing increasing attention, the Fordham community has ideas for bringing the issue down to Earth and spurring the public to action. Robin Happel describes …
After entering Fordham College at Rose Hill with ambitions of becoming a medical doctor, Elsa Au-Yeung, FCRH ’20, made discoveries that took her career down another avenue of the health …
Researching how plants adapt to a changing climate. Examining the effect of water conditions on populations of aquatic organisms. Investigating vector-borne diseases. These are just some examples of the work …
In early March, Ar Kornreich was a whirlwind of preparation. After six months of classes, Kornreich was almost ready to begin fieldwork for a biology Ph.D. dissertation. From late May …
Not only did this year’s Calder Summer Undergraduate Research (CSUR) Symposium feature a diverse mix of research—it also included a diverse group of student scientists and a keynote speaker who …
Brassica rapa, a spindly plant with yellow flowers that’s commonly known as field mustard, is great at adapting to rapid changes in its environment, be it heavy rainfall or drought. …
In a keynote address at the annual Calder Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Jessica Schuler of New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) stressed the need for engaging the general public as citizen scientists—volunteers …
When is a canal or a highway better at stopping movement than helping it? When rats are trying to cross it. This simple observation, a team of researchers led by …
