The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

The Observer
AIZA BHUIYAN

AIZA BHUIYAN, Sports & Health Editor Emerita

Aiza Bhuiyan, Fordham College at Lincoln Center ’21, is an editor for the sports & health section. As a pre-medical student majoring in anthropology, she is interested in learning about how a person’s identity affects their relationship with their health. You can find her feigning productivity and posing for tourists at the Rose Reading Room in the NYPL. 

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photo of two vaccine volunteers hoping to achieve immunity. both have face masks and head coverings on.

Vaccine Vulnerabilities

December 2, 2020
As the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine grows ever closer, public hesitancy may jeopardize efforts toward public immunity.
mount sinai hospital sign

The Future of the Affordable Care Act

October 28, 2020
Trump would like the ACA repealed, while Biden’s presidential plans include countering Trump's changes and building on Obama’s contributions.
infographic about racism

The Psychological Toll of Racism

September 16, 2020
When individuals experience racism, it does heavy damage to mental health. Stress, depression and anxiety are a few common effects in which these experiences result.
Martin Di Grandi Ph.D., has worked in the private sector for seventeen years. Currently, he researches in his own lab at Rose Hill and teaches at Lincoln Center.

Fordham Alumnus and Professor Training STEM Students to Solve Problems of the Future

April 1, 2020
After graduating from Fordham College at Rose Hill, Martin Di Grandi Ph.D. spent seventeen years as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry synthesizing potential antiviral and anticancer medication. Following his departure from the private sector, he returned to his alma mater to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists.
Rich in Vitamin C, berries a great source of antioxidants.

Finding Antioxidants at Fordham

January 28, 2020

In the last decade, antioxidants have been extensively marketed to health-conscious individuals. However, the science behind how antioxidants work and what they do is largely unknown to these consumers....

Karel Van Bourgondien, FCLC '21, working on an anti-Hepatitis C agent in a chemistry lab in John Mulcahy Hall at Rose Hill.

Fordham Student Researchers Share Their Summer Experience

August 25, 2019
Every summer, Lincoln Center science students research with their professors in various science disciplines. Four of these students talked with Assistant Sports & Health Editor Aiza Bhuiyan about the research they did this summer.
Roger Severino, director of OCR, seeks to expand the ability of doctors to discriminate against patients.

Doctors Have a Duty to Care, Not Discriminate

March 28, 2019
Even though doctors are supposed to be completely devoid of judgment when treating their patients, federal policies allow doctors to discriminate against their patients. Across the country, doctors are allowed conscience protections which allow them to refuse to treat patients based on their “religious” beliefs.
In 2007, 14.6 percent of U.S. college students have used prescription drugs nonmedically. (Photo Via Flickr)

The Opioid Epidemic: Facts and Remedies

September 26, 2018

Opiate addictions date back to antiquity when the ancient Egyptians, Persians and Chinese used poppy plant extract as mood relaxers. In the mid-19th century, Great Britain orchestrated an opium addiction...

Heroines of the American women's suffrage movement (Left to right: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott). (EDDIE WELKER VIA FLICKR)

We the People Demand Equal Rights

March 14, 2018
We are so privileged to enjoy the rights that we are granted, but we fail to recognize that they aren’t set in stone; in fact, they are not even established in the Constitution (unless you are a straight, white, cisgender male, of course).
The War on Roses

The War on Roses

February 14, 2018
Roses are red / Violets are blue / Valentine's Day is a corporate scheme for revenue
President Donald Trump handled hurricane relief in Puerto Rico this month differently than he handled hurricane relief in Houston and Florida earlier this year. (MATT JOHNSON VIA FLICKR)

Trump Needs to Take Puerto Rico Seriously

October 26, 2017

Sixteen. Does this number hold any significance for you? What if we assign an attribute to it? What value do 16 American lives hold? To our President, 16 human lives are just a casualty...

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