This weekend, two Fordham student entrepreneurs and Compass Fellows won $2,500 Kenneth Cole grants for their socially conscious ventures. Corinne Logan’s Pumpstash compression shorts are designed to hold insulin pumps for diabetics. Nick Makarov and Joe Halpin created SamePage, an application to help students synthesize current events using timelines, infographics…
Corinne Logan, Phil Sweeney and Nick Makarov & Joe Halpin hold three of the six Compass Fellowship finalist spots for Kenneth Cole grants. They were selected from among 220+ fellows across the country. Winners will be announced on April 5 during Shift Series, the annual conference of The Compass Fellowship…
…The McAteer family (Photo by Kelly Kultys) For Joe McAteer, a 1999 graduate of the Gabelli School of Business and a former Fordham football player, the day was a chance to resume a family tradition. He and his wife, Anne, took their daughters, Brigid and Melaney, to the family tent,…
…MBA ’20 BeautiMaps Technologies Second place: Andie Andrea Rodriguez FCRH ’21 Third place: Sidekick Dating Cassandra Basile Law ’22 and Justin Zamora (non Fordham) Fourth place: Peace Starts Now Jennifer Aleman GSSS ’15 Social impact award: What’s Cooking Joe Zoyhofski Gabelli ’21 Liam Scott FCRH ’21 Alex TenBarge, Gabelli ’21…
…by their customers? The biggest takeaway would be that you don’t have to be a technology company to be innovative; in fact, companies you would not normally consider the usual suspects, such as John Deere, Trader Joe’s, and Chick-Fil-A, are some of the most innovative companies according to U.S. consumers….
…heard bits and pieces of the blockchain story as a vehicle for making the market for Bitcoin but never really had the pros and cons explained in a clear and concise way from such experts in the field.” – Joe Catania, MBA ’18 “Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize all…
Technology has vast potential to transform the business world. Joe Halpin, BS ’17, and Tongqing Zhang, MS ’17, know this well. Both graduates chose to focus on technology while working toward their degrees, with Halpin concentrating on information systems and Zhang receiving a master’s in quantitative finance. Both are putting…
…Awards Gabelli School of Business Appreciation Award: Anastasia Pappas International Awareness Award: Sal Longarino Reverend Garrett J. Fitzgerald Award: Steven Njadzionek Faculty Cura Personalis Award: Clarence Ball Faculty Magis Award: Mario DiFiore Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (full-time faculty): Kevin Mirabile Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (adjunct faculty): Joe Lizza…
More than six hours. More than 10 speakers. More ideas and opportunities than can be counted. It’s all coming up this Saturday at the sixth annual Entrepreneurship Conference, also known as TrepCon. Joe Halpin, BS ’17, one of the event coordinators, says that “TrepCon is an incredible opportunity, not only for…