Pace University Environmental Gateway
Welcome to the Pace University Environmental Gateway, a University-wide resource that is your gateway to the diverse environmental offerings throughout Pace's schools and campuses. This website provides information and links to Pace University's environmental degrees, courses, publications, institutes, international programs and student-focused opportunities.
Pace University Environmental Gateway is maintained by Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.
News, Announcements & Events
Prof. Dan Estrin, supervising attorney for the Environmental Litigation Clinic, comments on court-ordered PCB clean-up
Though it has taken years of legal wrangling, the Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson Riverkeeper and the Atlantic Richfield Co. reached an agreement on the removal of PCB-contaminated soil from the site of an factory along the Hudson River.
Students enrolled in Pace Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic represented Riverkeeper in this significant case that details the removal of the cancer-causing industrial chemical. Read more.
Patch.com features Graduate Student Research
Patch.com featured the field research of Pace's graduate student, Theresa Pellecchia. She is doing her master’s thesis project on eels through a program sponsored by the Department of Environmental Conservation. Citizen scientists are currently studying eels, as they do annually, in various tributaries of the Hudson River. Read more.
Student Film Premiered: “Battle Behind the Bottle: A Documentary on the Cork Question"
In a new documentary, “Battle Behind the Bottle: A Documentary on the Cork Question,” a team of Pace University student filmmakers explores “the connection between the bottle of wine on your table and the fate of faraway forests.”
The film premiered on May 2, 2012 at Pace University's Pleasantville Campus.
The student filmmakers and their professor, Dr. Maria Luskay, along with Senior Fellow, Andrew Revkin, were on hand to answer questions about the making of the film.More details and about the film.
Pace Pleasantville Gets Solar Classroom
In April 2012, Pace unveiled its new solar classroom, thanks in part to a grant from Con Edison. While the solar panels will help the Environmental Center save money on its electrical bill, it was not the motivation behind its installation. The equipment will instead be used as a teaching tool. Helping to design the conversion was William Misicka, a senior student in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences’ Environmental Studies Program at Pace. Misicka performed research on solar energy and went on a solar site survey with a contracting company. The panels provide 1.5 kilowatts of electricity to the building.
Student-Made Documentary Film Receives Best Shorts Award
Linda Thornton: Seeking Sustainability, One Shrimp at a Time, has just received the Best Shorts Award of Merit. Best Shorts is an awards competition that recognizes the achievements of short filmmakers worldwide.
The short film was shot by a team of undergraduate and graduate Pace University students in Dr. Maria Luskay’s award-winning “Producing the Documentary” course. It explores the life of a resilient, pioneering aquaculture entrepreneur as she pushes the frontiers of sustainable shrimp farming in Belize. Helping with the production was New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. The film premiered on Pace University's Pleasantville campus on May 19, 2011. Read their blog to find out more about the making of the film. Watch the film online now.
Pace Students Create Environmental Program Video
Students in Professor Maria Luskay's Media Production 2 class learned while providing service to the University by producing a short promotional video for Pace's Master in Environmental Science program.
More Environmental News
Highlights
Weekly Radio Commentary from Energy and Climate Center's Executive Director
Franz Litz’s regular weekly radio commentaries for Northeast Public Radio are archived on the radio's website. Franz Litz is the Executive Director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center and Professor of Law at Pace Law School. WAMC/Northeast Public Radio is a regional public radio network serving parts of seven northeastern states, with studios and offices in Albany, NY. Tune in or check in to the page to read and learn more.
Animal Rights Blawg
The Animal Rights Blawg focuses on animal law, ethics and policy. It provides a forum for community and collegiality as well as debate and the exchange of ideas. It was founded by Pace Law professors David N. Cassuto and Luis E. Chiesa, along with law student, Suzanne McMillan
Follow Pace Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding on his ‘Dot Earth’ Blog
Andrew Revkin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace Academy, and Dot Earth blogger for The New York Times, is one of the most influential and respected reporters on the environment. He is the first two-time recipient of the National Academies Communication Award.
Dr. Melissa Grigione In the Field
Dr. Grigione, Director of the Environmental Science Masters Program for Dyson College received a Federal grant to study bison on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Watch here as she finds the herd.
Pace Sustainability Committee
GreenPace comprises programs and projects stemming from Pace's Sustainability Committee. Initiatives span across campuses and schools. Faculty, staff, and administrators are collectively working to green Pace. ww.pace.edu/sustainability.
Pace is Headquarters for the Environmental Consortium
Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies spearheaded the formation of the Environmental Consortium in 2004, and continues to serve as its headquarters. Directed by Michelle Land, the Consortium's mission is to harness higher education’s intellectual and physical resources to advance regional, ecosystem-based environmental research, teaching, and learning with a special emphasis on the greater Hudson-Mohawk River watershed.
Pace Membership to AASHE
Pace University is a member of AASHE - the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
All members of the Pace community are encouraged to establish an individual account and subscribe to the AASHE Bulletin, a free weekly e-newsletter with latest news, resources, opportunities, and events related to campus sustainability.
