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VP of Campus Planning and Facilities Ibi Yolas made City & State’s 2024 Trailblazers in Energy list

Ibi Yolas grew up around construction sites, and now has carved out a niche transforming the physical plans and implementing new green technologies at institutions of higher education. At Pace University, longtime environmental law leader Yolas has been developing projects to green the university via the electrification of its 64 buildings. Yolas, who was previously in a similar role at St. John’s University, is transforming Pace’s flagship, One Pace Plaza, into an innovative electrified building. The transformation includes plans to integrate a heat pump plant, a project that has received state funding.

The U.S. Department of State recently selected 15 talented individuals for the 2024 cohort of the notable Foreign Affairs Information Technology (FAIT) Fellowship— this includes Seidenberg student Uday Brathwaite ’27, KDVR reports.

Haub Law Associate Director of Graduate Programs and International Affairs Diana Ramirez was featured in an interview with The International Jurist providing her advice for LLM students.

Law Professor John Nolon writes a piece in The Yonkers Ledger about the untold story of how Whitney Young Manor in Yonkers was developed to provide shelter to lower income families.

Professor Gershman speaks to News Break about the prosecution laying out a 'criminal conspiracy' in the historic Trump trial.

Dean of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and interim dean for the Sands College of Performing Arts Tresmaine Grimes was featured on the Crimes, Coffee and Consequences with Professor Cathryn Lavery discussing the state of universities and on preparing students in the field of criminal justice.

Dyson Professor Stephen Rolandi writes an op-ed in the PA Times about the Proposed S.E.A.T. Act.

Law Professor Bennett Gershman speaks to New York Daily News about Queens prosecutors recently visiting a key witness in a wrongful conviction claim filed by a man who has been in prison for 30 years and threatened her with arrest if she changed her original testimony and testified in his favor, court papers filed allege.