Research can be a
really scary word—at least it was for me—especially when professors start
talking about a term paper or thesis. Luckily, I got to approach research on a
much more comfortable scale through the Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal
(FURJ). FURJ is an interdisciplinary academic journal run by FCRH and FCLC
undergraduates. We are entering our fourth year as a journal, and we’ve
published articles from nearly every department on campus.
Publishing an
official journal is a lot of work, and we pull in talent from every corner of
campus. We have students getting hands-on marketing and advertising experience,
news writers who cover ongoing research on campus, photographers and graphic
designers brightening up our pages, student reviewers who work in tandem with
faculty to assess the quality of research, and man is the research fantastic!
As FURJ’s chief copy editor, I get the opportunity to read the journal from
cover to cover before it is published.
Some of my favorite
articles include a sociological survey of gender and clothing on campus and the
origins of Ghanaian rap in the Bronx. FURJ also exposes me to a wild array of
other subjects, though. Without the journal, I may never have learned about
nanoconjugates’ potential applications, the relationship between Japanese art
and World War II, or urban planning in Midtown Manhattan. It goes without
saying (although I’ll mention it anyway!) that the students FURJ attracts are
just as diverse and wonderful as its contents.  |
| The most recent editions of FURJ. |
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| One research article in Volume 3, which drew on the Japanese kawaii style displayed in Harmless Kitty (above), is preserved at the Aomori Museum of Art in Japan in their archives for the artist, Yoshitomo Nara. |
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