Dear FCLC students,

Welcome to the 2023-24 Academic Year!

Much as I love the quiet beauty of summer, I’m energized each year when I see our campus fill up with the excitement of new and returning students on their way to the first day of classes. Welcome to one and all!

Since you might not have been checking your Fordham email regularly over the summer, this week’s newsletter recaps some important information that I’ve shared before and adds a few new opportunities. For instance, did you know that all Fordham undergraduates, regardless of school or major, can audition for Fordham Theatre’s MainStage season? It’s true! And auditions start tomorrow!

Read on to learn more and for information about:

Important Dates

I wish you great success and can’t wait to see what the year will bring!

Yours,
Dean Auricchio
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Laura Auricchio, Ph.D.
Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center
Fordham University
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Important Dates

Paid Opportunities
Serving the City Internships
The Serving the City Internship program provides paid internships at NYC nonprofits. These internships are available exclusively to FCLC and FCRH students. The following opportunities are available at this time. (New posting and opportunities with application deadlines within the next week are flagged for your attention.) Check out Fordham’s online job and internship database Handshake, our Serving the City LinkedIn page, or the summary below for more details. Email servingthecity@fordham.edu with any questions. And keep checking back – new opportunities continue to arrive!

52nd Street Project (NEW partner/NEW post this week)

Tutoring through Fordham Graduate School of Education’s Center for Educational Partnerships
Tutoring opportunities available for Fordham students working with middle school children attending a Bronx Public School serviced by Fordham University. The position involves working with middle school children to prepare them for the STATE Exams in Math/ELA and some light administrative work. 

School: MS 331 - The Bronx School of Young Leaders, 40 West Tremont Avenue Bronx, New York 10453 (1/3 block west of Jerome Avenue) 
Flexible: 3-4-5 hours per day: Maximum 19 hours per week 
Dates:  September 18, 2023 thru mid-April/May 2024 after the State exams 
Compensation: $25.00 per hour
To apply: submit resumes to Mary Simone (msimone3@fordham.edu) 

Requirements for the position include: 
 

Happening at Fordham
Career Building Opportunities 

Demystifying the Biomedical Graduate School application process (virtual)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is hosting a 3-day virtual series for senior undergraduate students and postbacs: Demystifying the graduate school application process. 

This event is open to senior undergraduates and current postbacs. MSK especially encourages those from historically underrepresented groups in biomedical fields to apply. During the 3 sessions (September 12, 13 & 14), participants will receive insight and advice on the different parts of the graduate school application (statements, letters of recommendation, interview tips & fellowships available). They will also learn how to prepare for the interview, and a selected group of participants will be invited to receive feedback in a mock interview session with an MSK faculty member. MSK will also host panels with PhD students and faculty to talk about the application process, the interviews, and what the admissions panel focused on. Finally, students will learn about all the graduate programs associated with MSK:
 

Interested students must submit an application by August 31, 2023. The detailed agenda is on the application form.

Fordham Alumni Mentoring Program
Applications open on August 31 for the  Fordham Mentoring Program. The Mentoring Program offers junior and senior students a unique opportunity to connect with accomplished Fordham alumni who are eager to share their expertise and insights. 

Application Details:

Application Link with more Information: https://mentorshipnetwork.fordham.edu/hub/fordhahttps://mentorshipnetwork.fordham.edu/hub/fordham/programs/fordham-mentoring-program/aboutm/programs/fordham-mentoring-program/about

If you have any questions or need additional materials to promote the program, please do not hesitate to reach out to  jtompkins9@fordham.edu or mentor@fordham.edu. 

Career Center Kick-Off Events (Rose Hill)

Career Center Kick-Off Event: Game of LIFE
August 31 | 12 - 3 pm | McShane Campus Center, 1st and 2nd floor (Rose Hill)
All undergraduate students are welcome to attend this kickoff event for the Career Center, featuring a life-size recreation of the Game of Life!  Connect with employers, get a resume review, play games, enjoy food truck delights, and more!  Sign up on Handshake, under Events. 

Career Fair Pop-Up Shop
September 11 | 12 - 3 pm | McShane Campus Center, 2nd floor (Rose Hill)
Stop by the Career Center’s welcome event to get ready for the career fairs and more!  Sign up on Handshake, under Events. All are welcome, including first-year students! 

Career Closet
September 11 | 1 - 3 pm | McShane Center 223 (Rose Hill)
Need interview clothes?  Stop by Fordham’s 2nd Annual Career Closet pop-up to browse through employer-donated attire.  More information on Handshake.

Career Booster EUrope
Co-sponsored by Fordham and EU National Institutes for Culture, this information and career networking fair will be held at the Lincoln Center campus (140 W 62nd Street) on Saturday, September 30th. You’ll have opportunities to attend panel discussions, presentations, and workshops, and to meet and network with representatives of EU companies in the US, as well as universities, funding institutions, consulates, study abroad organizations, etc. Learn more at this link.

Exhibitions and Events
 

Audition for Fordham Theatre’s 2023-24 MainStage Season (Lincoln Center)
You don’t have to be a Theatre major or minor to audition for Fordham Theatre’s MainStage performances! Auditions will be held August 31-September 3. Auditions will be held in-person at the Lincoln Center campus. For more details please click on the audition form.

Kayak and Ignation Reflection (Lincoln Center)
Saturday, September 2nd, 1:30-4:00 PM | Meet at Lowenstein front Entrance 
Did you know you can kayak off the Manhattan shoreline? In partnership with Manhattan Community Boathouse, Fordham’s Office of Mission Integration and Ministry invites you to kayak with fellow members of the Fordham family! Admission is free. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Please wear your Fordham gear to show our spirit. RSVP at this link.

Meet the Fordham Foundry (Lincoln Center)
Do you have a business idea or an interest in getting into the startup world? The Fordham Foundry is here to help. The Foundry is Fordham University’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, open to students and alumni from all Fordham schools. The Foundry offers 1:1 mentoring, weekly lunches at both Rose Hill and Lincoln Center, and opportunities to earn funding through the Angel Fund and through pitch competitions. Interested in learning more? Come meet members of the Foundry team at the Club Fair on August 31 from 11:30 AM-1 PM on Lowenstein Plaza.

Financial Issues Forum Presents Leon Cooperman in Conversation with Mario Gabelli
September 7 | 5-7 pm | McNally Amphitheatre (Lincoln Center)
Join us for a fireside chat with Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Family Office, and Mario Gabelli, a 1965 graduate of Fordham and the chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors. The pair will discuss Cooperman’s recently published memoir, From the Bronx to Wall Street: My Fifty Years in Finance and Philanthropy. The discussion will be moderated by James Russell Kelly, director of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. All attendees will receive a free copy of Cooperman’s book, which the author will sign during a reception following the chat.

Walking Tour of “the Jewish Bronx”
September 10 | 11 am | Location will be shared after registration
Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies is sponsoring a walking tour of the Longwood section of the South Bronx, a long-time Jewish neighborhood. The tour will be led by David Herszenson, a doctor in NYC and a licensed New York City Sightseeing Guide.  Registration is required and is limited to the first 30 people.

Exhibition Opening: The Light of the Revival: Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues of Ukraine by Eugeny Kotlyar
September 10 | 2 pm | in-person at the Walsh Library (RH) and online (Zoom)
All are welcome to attend the opening of a new exhibit that offers a broad perspective on the revival of Ukrainian synagogues after Ukraine’s independence. The exhibit, which will be available in the Walsh Library through December 8, showcases three sets of stained-glass windows designed by Eugeny Kotlyar and partially installed in Ukrainian synagogues between 1995 and 2005.  This event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies. Register and find more information at the link above. 

2023 Mass of the Holy Spirit
September 10 | 5 pm | University Church (Rose Hill)
All are welcome to participate in the 2023 Mass of the Holy Spirit, a Jesuit tradition in which we as a community come together to celebrate and to invite the Holy Spirit to be with us during our academic year. A reception will follow on the University Church lawn. This event is open to alumni, faculty/staff, parents, students, and the public.

Interfaith Prayer Service and Picnic with President Tetlow
September 14 | 12 pm | (Lowenstein Plaza, Lincoln Center)
All are welcome to participate in an interfaith prayer service, followed by a picnic, to welcome the new year and celebrate Fordham’s diversity. This event is open to alumni, faculty/staff, parents, students, and the public.

Chile: Dignidad, 1973-2023; Art Exhibit by María Verónica San Martín (Lincoln Center)
Lipani Gallery, Visual Arts suite, Lowenstein ground floor, 113 West 60th St
Curated by Dr. Carl Fischer, Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, this exhibition  presents a collection of works by the Chilean artist María Verónica San Martín. The exhibit offers a retelling through performance, book art, and engravings of politically crucial moments of recent Chilean history and their interconnectedness with US experience, with a focus on the motif of Dignidad as a denunciation of past abuses and as a cry for social justice. The exhibition is already open. You are invited to a reception on September 7 at 5:30.

ERASED//Geographies of Black Displacement; Art Exhibit by Shana M. griffin (Lincoln Center)
Butler Gallery, Lowenstein ground floor, 113 West 60th St
Organized by Casey Ruble, Associate Clinical Professor of Visual Arts and Artist in Residence at Fordham, this exhibition combines found objects, photographs, text, paintings, and ephemera to explore Black displacement, dislocation, containment, and disposability through government policies and actions in two locations, Louisiana and the Lincoln Center area (formerly known as San Juan Hill).  Also on view are selections from griffin’s other works.  The pieces examine the many ways in which displacement takes place, how it shapes Black life, and how sites of displacement become ones of everyday violence, subjectivity, and resistance, but also possibility.  

Happening around town
Events at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (free or pay-what-you-wish)

Located across the street from Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts offers free and pay-what-you-wish events year-round. 
 

2023 Summer HD Festival
Through September 4  | Lincoln Center Plaza, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Metropolitan Opera’s Free Summer HD Festival offers free outdoor opera screenings with seating on a first-come-first-served basis. Remaining screenings in this year’s series include; Hamlet (8.30), Cosi fan tutte (8/31), Champion (9/2), Rigoletto (9/2), and La Boheme (9/4).

Events in NYC (free or low-cost)
The Tempest - Free Shakespeare in the Park 2023
August 27 - September 3 | 8 PM | Delacorte Theater in Central Park; 81 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
Broadway stars will conclude Shakespeare in the Park 2023 with The Tempest. A magical storm strands a group of shipwrecked nobles on a remote island. With supernatural beings, romance, and revenge, they navigate the island's mysteries and learn lessons of forgiveness and redemption. This musical adaptation of The Tempest will be The Public Theater's final show at the outdoor Delacorte Theater this summer and will run for one week only: August 27 through September 3. Admission is free.
 

Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s
Opens September 1 | Guggenheim Museum; 1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128
Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s will examine the groundbreaking and genre-defying body of artistic production from an era of remarkable transformation in South Korea. Created by young artists who came of age in the decades immediately following the Korean War, the artworks reflect and respond to the changing socioeconomic and material conditions that were shaped by a tumultuous political landscape at home and a globalizing world beyond. This will be the first North American museum exhibition dedicated to Korean Experimental art (silheom misul) and its artists, whose radical approach to materials and process resulted in some of the most significant avant-garde practices of the twentieth century. Student discounted tickets are available for purchase online.

Morgan Jay — Musician, Comedian
September 2 | 7-8:15 pm and 9-10:15 pm | Pier55 in Hudson River Park West 13th Street,New York NY 10014
Morgan Jay is a musician and comedian who’s appeared on NBC and Comedy Central. With multiple awards and recognition, he’s built a diverse following of music and comedy lovers from all over the world. His self published comedy special, ”I hope my Ex doesn’t see this,” has garnered over half a million views and is available to watch now on YouTube. He will be performing for free as part of Little Island’s free summer performance series. 

Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929
Through September 4 | The Met Museum; 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028
Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints arranged on thirty-two pages, Berenice Abbott’s New York album marks a key turning point in her career—from her portrait work in Paris to the urban documentation that culminated in her federally funded project, Changing New York (1935–39). Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 presents a selection of unbound pages from this unique album, shedding new light on the creative process of one of the great photographic artists of the twentieth century. Student discounted tickets are available online, for New York State residents and NY, NJ, CT students, the amount you pay is up to you. 

Eye Candy: The Coming of Color
Through September 6 | MoMA; 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Presented in conjunction with the gallery exhibition Before Technicolor: Early Color on Film, this series documents the history of efforts to bring color to motion pictures. Highlighting the use of tinting, hand- and stencil-coloring, and the early experimental systems that predate Technicolor, the series offers restored versions of shorts, features, and avant-garde animation from the United States, France, and Britain, in 17 programs of works produced between 1894 and 1937. Student discounted tickets are available for purchase online.

Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art  
Through September 10 | Poster House; 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
Two world wars in addition to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of mass media fundamentally transformed modern Japan, and its specific journey as both an aggressor and a victim of war reinforced the nation’s efforts to revamp its image. Within this context, posters became an essential commercial art form that fused modern identity with consumerism, mirroring and shaping the social, political, and ideological values of the time. This exhibition explores the cultural and political shifts within modern Japan that influenced the functions and messaging of its advertising posters, and how those posters were subsequently received by the public. Student discounted tickets are available for purchase online.

Free Summer Movies with NYC Parks
Various dates and locations through September
NYC Parks and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment have made it possible for New Yorkers across the boroughs to find a free outdoor movie screening near them every week. These family-friendly screenings are held in the city's parks and playgrounds, ranging from great new movies to all-time classics. All showings are free.

Taylor Swift: Storyteller
Through March 2024 | Museum of Arts and Design; 2 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019Taylor Swift: Storyteller is a career-spanning look at the artistic reinventions of the 12-time GRAMMY Award–winning artist who is one of the most prolific songwriters in history. Highlights include the cheerleader and ballerina ensembles from the award-winning music video for “Shake It Off” (2014); the red wedding dress and bellhop uniform from “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault),” which featured Miles Teller and was directed by Blake Lively (2021); and the sparkling ensemble from “Bejeweled” (2022), directed by Taylor Swift. Concert attire by couture fashion houses are featured along with props, jewelry, ephemera, and projections of music videos rounding out the exhibition. Tickets are available for purchase online.