Fordham University facts for kids
Fordham University is a private research university in New York City, New York. The university has about 14,544 students. It was founded in 1841. The current president of the university is Reverend Joseph M. McShane S.J..
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Rams. They have 22 varsity teams and they compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for everything but football. In football Fordham competes in the Patriot League.
Images for kids
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the launching of Lincoln Center campus, 1959
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William D. Walsh Family Library, Rose Hill
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Colin Powell, alumnus of Fordham Military Science program
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The Rams football team in Yankee Stadium on November 30, 1940, during a game against NYU
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Fordham's fight song, "Fordham Ram" by J. Ignatius Coveney
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Alan Alda, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor
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William J. Casey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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Mary Higgins Clark, novelist
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Patricia Clarkson, Academy Award-nominated actress
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Don DeLillo, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist
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Lana Del Rey, singer-songwriter
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John La Farge, visual artist
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Martin H. Glynn, 40th Governor of New York
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Michael Kay, sports broadcaster for the New York Yankees
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Vince Lombardi, Hall of Famer, namesake of Super Bowl trophy
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Vin Scully, sportscaster
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Francis Spellman, Cardinal Archbishop of New York
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Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, attended for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania
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Denzel Washington, Academy Award-winning actor
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Hilaire Belloc, prolific Anglo-French writer and historian, President of the Oxford Union, British Member of Parliament
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Brian Davies, Professor of Philosophy at Fordham, and specialist in Thomism
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Victor Francis Hess, Nobel Prize recipient and discoverer of Cosmic Rays
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Olivia Hooker, first African-American woman to enter the U.S. Coast Guard
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Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology
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Guillermo Owen, Colombian mathematician, considered one of the founding fathers of game theory
See also
In Spanish: Universidad de Fordham para niños
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