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What is queerbaiting, exactly?

In an interview with USA Today, Melvin Williams, professor of communication and media studies at Pace University, summed up the concept: "Queerbaiting is a strategy used by content creators and media producers to attract queer audiences — via homoeroticism, suggestive marketing and storylines, and other symbolisms — and to insinuate queer identities and relationships between media characters and viewers."

Pace University’s Bachelor of Arts in Writing for Diversity and Equity in Theater and Media Arts, housed in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, has received a two-year, $609,000 grant from The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation that continues its support of the program.

"Some trees are going to have these very bright colors but very short time compared to normal because of the drought, whereas other trees are going to cut the leaf off earlier before it even changes colors. You're really going to get this dried out brown," says Matthew Aiello, of Pace University's Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Dyson Professor Darrin Porcher speaks with CBS New York about the latest court developments in NY’s gun battle.

Pace’s MPA program teams up with The Westchester Children’s Association to explore the digital divide in the county.

The WCA/Pace survey, authored by Sydney Moraitis, a graduate student working on her master’s in public administration, and Dr. Gina Scutelnicu-Todoran, a Pace associate professor, revealed that 31 percent of the respondents believed technology made their child’s learning more difficult and 27 percent experienced stress due to technology at least once a week.