A group of Fordham deans, alumni, and current seniors gathered in the Joseph M. McShane, S.J. Campus Center on Wednesday afternoon in early May to celebrate an upcoming milestone: On May 21, those seniors will all become the first members of their families to graduate from college.

Although World Water Day and Earth Day are in the rearview, Nancy Castaldo hopes you won’t shift your attention from the fate of the planet just yet. In her latest book, When the World Runs Dry: Earth’s Water in Crisis, published in January, she dives into global water security—or, more aptly, the lack thereof—tackling infrastructure, pollution, fracking, and more.

Students often credit Fordham as the place they’ve found their passion and purpose. That’s true for Loreen Ruiz, a 2021 graduate of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, but she learned something even more invaluable as an undergrad, she said: how to take up space—as a woman, and as someone working to end systemic injustice.

When Anchal Lamba was growing up, Saturdays meant a trip to Flushing, Queens, for the family’s weekly bubble tea outing, but these days, she’s surrounded by the popular drink 24/7.

Columbia Pictures’ reboot of the iconic Charlie’s Angels franchise — starring Kristen Stewart (Sabina), Naomi Scott (Eleanor), Ella Balinska (Jane), and Elizabeth Banks (Bosley) — might be short on box office dollars, but it’s big on friendship and femininity and love.

When someone says “DC Entertainment,” your brain probably conjures thoughts of Superman and Wonder Woman, or maybe even Robert Pattinson’s upcoming turn in the Batsuit. Whatever your mental list, middle-grade (MG) and young adult (YA) graphic novels are likely not at the top of it — but they should be.

Cartoons are a quintessential part of childhood. Whether you were loyal to Disney’s One Saturday Morning programming block or something else, chances are you had a favorite show or two — or 10 — and they influenced your childhood in some way. For Charles Thurston, that influence was significant.

Mauricio Abril’s recipe for artistic success includes a little superhero, a dash of whimsy, and a lot of kindness.

Exercising regularly throughout your pregnancy can mitigate some of the more common discomforts associated with pregnancy, like backache and fatigue, along with more serious conditions like gestational diabetes.

A South Ferry-bound 1 train rolls into the 137th street — City College station. I settle in, unzip my purse, and pull out a fuzzy, slightly itchy orange ball of Jiffy yarn and a cool, smooth, metallic Wright Boye crochet hook. People always stare; looks of bewilderment spread across their faces before they dismiss me as just another strange New Yorker.

In The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting (The Penguin Press, 2011) Rachel Shteir traces the phenomenon of shoplifting to its roots in London, before bringing readers back to America to examine the rise of “department-store shoplifting.”

Despite Obama’s election and the widespread optimism, surveys conducted by Pew, Gallup, CNN, the New York Times and others all show that discrimination persists and colorblindness is still a ways off.