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KUHF Houston Public Radio: The 2009 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurs Centers Conference at Rice looked at ways entrepreneurship and innovation drive the global economy. The idea is to build effective entrepreneurship programs at universities that will benefit society and underdeveloped countries. Listen to an interview with Bruce Bachenheimer, director of entrepreneurship studies at Pace's Lubin School of Business.
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All About Jazz: The London Scene. Read an article by Nick Catalano, a TV writer/producer and professor of Literature and Music at Pace. Also read a review of his book, “New York Nights” in the East Hampton Star.
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CarlLa Horton, left, executive director of Hope's Door, formerly known as Northern Westchester Shelter, and Penny Pepe, residence director, stand in a kitchen that is receiving a face-lift, thanks to O, The Oprah Magazine, and Benjamin Moore. (Ricky Flores / The Journal News)
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Economist.com: Trading shots. Read a letter to the editor by Robert Vambery, Lubin professor of international business, about America’s protectionist measures.
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A student uses a Kindle DX during an Oct. 2 class at Pace University in New York.
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CBS News: Will E-Books Transform the Way We Read? CBS TV affiliates across the nation featured Pace’s pilot test of the Amazon Kindle in a CBS network news segment on e-books. See Lubin professor Karen Berger and two of her Pleasantville marketing students, and professor Manuela Soares of the Pace publishing program.
Associated Press: Kindle Lightens Textbook Load, But Flaws Remain. Kindle can also do things books can't, like read homework aloud. Una Hopkins, a 46-year-old student in the nurse-practitioner program at Pace, got five chapters finished that way when she was stuck in traffic. "It was robotic, but it got me where I needed to go," Hopkins says.
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Wall Street Journal: Pace marketing professor Larry Chiagouris speaks to WSJ Small-Business Editor Colleen DeBaise about the best way to advertise a product or service in this day and age. See the video interview and read the Small Talk column in the WSJ's Small Business Journal Report.
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The Groundwork Hudson Valley organization’s “BioBlitz 09,” a census of the Saw Mill River watershed biodiversity, was headquartered at Pace Pleasantville Saturday, and received home page coverage in the Journal News (Westchester Section). Michelle Land, Director of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, writes that the event was co-sponsored, in part, by the Academy and Dyson’s Department of Biology & Health Sciences. She adds: “Having Pace associated with this event gave us a great deal of exposure to the area’s scientists, students and municipal leaders as well as the general public.”
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Photo: Joe Cross as Old Turtle Walking
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Worldwide Premiere – “The River of Tides.” Misunderstandings, skirmishes and death ensue as Henry Hudson and his crew make their exploratory voyage up the river that now bears his name, in a new play commissioned by Pace that probes the culture clashes between Europeans and Native Americans during Hudson's famous journey in 1609. The New York Times, Daily News (NY), The Villager (A List), BroadwayWorld, TheaterMania, NYTheatre.com, WNBC.com are among the over 35 publications/websites which have featured news of the play’s New York City public debut on Saturday, September 26 at 5 pm at the Schimmel Theater. Go to “Spotlight” section of the Pace homepage.
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Albany Times-Union: Hudson's forgotten observers. Read an opinion piece about the quadricentennial celebrations of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the river that now bears his name. Written by Geoffrey L. Brackett, Ph.D., provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of Pace.
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Student Societies on the Move: The Pace PA program ‘s outreach to students in a Harlem school was warmly profiled in the Special Projects Coordinator Update of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
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Responding to an increase in last-minute applications from prospective students perhaps daunted by the difficulty of finding work in a recession, the suburban New York City law school has made the change to accommodate them, explains a press release.
A 13-week summer session will constitute the second half of their first year in law school, putting the midyear admittees on track to start their second year in the fall with those already attending Pace as first-years right now.
The law school will continue to accept applications until Nov. 16 for students who wish to enter in January.
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Ganesan Ravishanker, the new chief information officer at Pace University, with his Kindle reader at Miller Hall. (Joe Larese/The Journal News)
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Journal News: High-tech chief sees modern campuses. Ganesan Ravishanker, who helped make Wesleyan University a national leader in using information technology for teaching and learning, has moved to Pace University as Chief Information Officer. He arrives at a point of critical momentum in the history of college teaching, and as Pace is becoming a leader in the changes that are melding campus pedagogy into a hybrid of face-to-face and digital instruction.
This fall, Pace is one of seven colleges and universities in the pilot test of Amazon’s new Kindle DX reader for delivering textbooks. Read the media coverage.
Pace also is making Dell netbooks available on campus at steeply discounted prices, in partnership with Dell, as one way of making sure all students can take advantage of information technology as they learn. This fall, all Pace classrooms will be equipped with wireless networks, and by the end of the year all large classrooms and lecture halls will be enhanced with other state-of-the-art teaching technology.
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Michael Szenberg, PhD, distinguished professor of economics at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University (Photo Credit: Tamara Kelly)
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The Investment Professional, the Journal of the New York Society of Security Analysts: One Big Happy Family - The Global Crisis Tests Postwar Alignments. Professor Michael Szenberg sees innovation coming not only out of the United States but also out of small countries such as Finland, Israel, and Singapore. “Is there something about smallness that generates the desire to become more prominent, to engage in more innovative activities? It’s an interesting question,” Szenberg says.
Michael Szenberg, PhD, distinguished professor of economics at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University:
• Winner of the Irving Fisher Monograph Award, 1971
• Editor of Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press 2006) and Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies (Cambridge University Press 1991)
“Why couldn’t [the financial crisis] be prevented? I have a very simple answer. It can never be prevented. Because the schemes that people come up with every time beggar the imagination. Couldn’t the government have prevented it? Maybe yes, maybe no, but probably not. We will survive, even without the recovery of private enterprise. If we need to, we will have another stimulus; and if that doesn’t work, another one after that.”
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CNN en Español - Economía y Finanzas: ¿Signos positivos? Jorge Pinto, profesor en la Lubin School of Business de Pace, comenta sobre las ventas de casas y otros indicios que muestran una economía recuperándose. Entrevista de CNN por Alberto Padilla (26 de agosto)
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Dustup over Democracy. Three Democratic candidates for New York City Public Advocate -- Eric Gioia, Bill de Blasio and Norman Siegel – appeared in a forum sponsored by Pace’s Department of Government and Community Relations and the Manhattan Young Democrats, in partnership with Pace’s Pforzheimer Honors College and Department of Political Science. This race has become hotly competitive, with a number of candidates now considered viable. Read the lively and extensive local blogosphere coverage: Downtown Express, NY Daily News “Brawl for the Hall” blog [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ], Examiner.com, Twitter [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ].
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Washington Times: BOOK REVIEW: English gentlemen, not. Reviewed by Martin Rubin. "This stimulating study of the postwar generation of British writers who shook up their nation's literature so dramatically manages despite its brevity to be not only comprehensive but far-ranging. Its author, David Castronovo, a professor at Pace University in New York, is not only superbly well-informed on his subject but has a flair for analyzing it in a uniquely revealing fashion. He is adept at putting these authors in context -- politically, culturally and philosophically -- and the unusual thing about this process is that it results in a whole new way of seeing who these writers really were and how and why they evolved at this point in time."
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New York City Mayor candidate forum: A forum for candidates in the race to become New York City Mayor took place at Pace University’s Downtown campus on Monday, July 27. The candidates who participated were New York City Councilman Tony Avella and the city’s Controller, William Thompson. The forum was hosted by the National Organization for Women NYC and Pace University’s Pforzheimer Honors College, Department of Political Science, and Department of Government and Community Relations. Read the coverage: Epoch Times, Examiner.com.
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New York Daily News: Sun and warm weather bring sadness and withdrawal for those with summer-onset depression. It’s nowhere near as common as the winter version of seasonal depression, says Richard Shadick, Ph.D., psychology professor and director of the Counseling Center at Pace University. “It tends to have a late spring onset, and folks tend to suffer through the hot summer months,” he says. “Summer’s very nice for many people, but some people hate oppressive heat. They are very sensitive to heat and they get headaches because of the bright light.” The most effective treatment, Shadick says, is a combination of medication and psychotherapy. It also helps to eat right, connect with friends and stick to an exercise regimen, he says. Read more comments from Shadick about depression on EverydayHealth.com [ 1 | 2 | 3 ].
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New York Times: Next Stop, U.S.A.: A Taste of Elizabethan Theater. After a four-year absence from the United States, Shakespeare’s Globe is returning in the fall to stage “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at seven universities and a college-town theater over three months, with the hope of providing an authentically Elizabethan theatrical experience to American audiences.
The Globe brought “Twelfth Night” in 2003 and “Measure for Measure” in 2005, which enjoyed a sold-out run at St. Ann’s Warehouse. (“Twelfth Night” did not come to New York.) “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” an early Shakespeare comedy about strong-willed young nobles matching wits and falling in love despite themselves, will conclude its run in December at Pace University, in Lower Manhattan.
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Kiladi Mutala's wife - the family's principal breadwinner - died on Christmas Eve. He and four of their children are receiving aid from a variety of resources to keep their home. (Kathy Gardner/The Journal News)
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Journal News: Widower, 4 children flooded with support. Connie Gamiei's own parents and in-laws came to the United States from Italy in the 1960s and endured the hardships common to immigrants. So when she first heard about the tragedies that had befallen Kiladi Mutala and how he was struggling to cope, her response was to see how she could help.
Gamiei was particularly intrigued that Mutala was highly educated - he was working on a doctorate in divinity when his wife died - yet doing manual labor to make ends meet. As the director of recruiting and staffing at Pace University, Gamiei thought she could pair his qualifications with a decent job at the university.
"My parents and in-laws are all immigrants," said Gamiei, 38, of Eastchester, who talked with Mutala on Friday to set up a meeting. "I've heard so many stories that if they didn't have the support they needed, they wouldn't have made it. I know how challenging and hard it is."
Gamiei's response was prompted by the Journal News article Neighbors can help Congolese family.
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A Global Partnership: Is the U.S. Ready to Seal the Deal on IFRS? The July issue of The CPA Journal features a collection of articles on Pace University’s Lubin Forum on Contemporary Accounting Issues with many insights into the increasing international moves toward common accounting standards for businesses and governments. Pace University’s Lubin School of Business organizes the Annual Lubin Forum on Contemporary Accounting Issues. The focus of this year’s event, presented in conjunction with The International Accounting Standards Board on April 30, was “International Accounting Standards: Going from the Talk to Doing the Walk.” Keynote speakers included Tom Jones, Vice Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board; Robert Herz, Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board; Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., Global CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers; and Edward E. Nusbaum, CEO of Grant Thornton.
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Pace University's Edwin G. Michaelian Institute for Public Policy and Management made a public presentation of a report, “Fire Services of Southern Westchester County: A Case for Consolidation" on July 1, 2009. The 219 page study, commissioned by the Westchester County Career Fire Chiefs Association, evaluates the feasibility of consolidating 10 fire departments serving a population of 250,000 people in a 50 square mile area of Westchester County.
Read the press release and coverage by the Associated Press, Journal News, Insurance Journal, FirefighterNation.com, Larchmont Gazette, and other news organizations.
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Fox Business Network: Having a Healthy 401(k). See the video of Professor Matthew Morey discussing his new study, "The Yield Disparity in 401(k) Plans: Does Higher Annual Pay Mean Higher Rates of Return on Retirement Accounts?"
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Journal News: Honeybees make sweet work at Pace. "Honeybees are pretty passive, unless you get into their flight path," said James Eyring, the assistant director of Pace University's Environmental Center in Pleasantville. "They don't like you in their way." Eyring started a beekeeping operation at Pace two months ago, at the suggestion of Nick Robinson, the school's environmental law legend and an amateur beekeeper himself. "He said we should do it because it's the right thing to do," Eyring said. "It's also good for the students to get a close look at how nature works."
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