The day after a June 12 visit to Singapore for the first ever meeting between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, President Trump tweeted:

“Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight!”

Not quite, says assistant professor of political science Raymond Kuo, an expert on international relations and Asia begs to differ.

In a career spanning five decades, Father Daniel Sullivan, SJ, professor emeritus of biology, has traveled far and wide. His expertise in invasive species, particularly insects, took him far from his native Queens and from the Rose Hill campus, where he first set foot as an undergraduate in 1946.

We sat down with him recently to talk about the ways his faith complimented his research, what it takes to make it in science today, and the importance of setting and sticking to the right priorities.

In this bonus track, we ask Mark Conrad, Director, of the Sports Business Concentration Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, which sports league is the best, and which one is hte best.

The professional sports market in the U.S. was worth about $60 billion in 2014, and according to Forbes, it’s expected to reach $73 billion by 2019. We sat down with Mark Conrad, Director of the Sports Business Concentration at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, to get a sense of where leagues such as the NFL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA are headed.

The same day Distinguished Professor of Theology Elizabeth Johnson sat down to talk about her new book, Creation and the Cross, the death of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking dominated the headlines. In this bonus track, Johnson reflects on Hawking, an avowed atheist.

In her new book Creation and the Cross, Distinguished Professor of Theology Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, challenges us to reconsider cosmic redemption. It's an ancient concept that fell out of favor in the 11th century, but is needed more than ever in a time of advancing ecological devastation.

This year, one of the ten films vying for the Best Picture Oscar award is The Shape of Water, a film by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. It's safe to say this is the first year that a fishman/woman romance flick has been nominated for Tinselstown's top award, so we sat down with professor Miguel Garcia, an expert on both Mexican Literature and Cinema and Mexican Science Fiction. Spoiler alert.

Award-winning journalist David Gibson assumed the title of director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture on July 1. In a wide ranging interview, he discusses his vision for the center's future, including his dream panel discussion, and where Star Wars fits in it all.

Award-winning journalist David Gibson assumed the title of director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture on July 1. In a wide ranging interview, he discusses his vision for the center's future, including his dream panel discussion, and where Star Wars fits in it all.

Hope and faith are common threads in American pop culture, and Kathryn Reklis, an assistant professor of theology, often addresses both in a monthly column in the journal The Christian Century. Reklis sat down with with us recently to talk about how, after a year in which hope has been in short supply, it's still alive today.