Pace professors wear quite the array of hats in myriad fields and locales. Thanks to the work of Biology Chairperson Andrew Wier, PhD, we can now add “sea turtle rescuer” to our collective faculty resume.
Wier has been working with former graduate student Maxine Montello ’14 to assist in the rescue and rehabilitation of cold-stunned sea turtles. Montello, currently the rescue program director at the New York Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC) in Riverhead, New York, remained in touch with Wier after...
The value of an undergraduate degree has emerged as a hot-button issue over the course of the 21st century. While research indicating that an increase in earning potential and career advancement opportunities for college graduates is clear, a changing economy and increased costs has put higher education under a sharper microscope.
To put it bluntly: is college worth it?
Lubin Professor Larry Chiagouris, PhD, is seeking answers from those with the freshest, and arguably, most relevant...
The Meat(Less) of the Matter
Will going vegan help fight climate change? Well, it depends on who you ask.
Americans eat four times more meat than the global average, and the UN predicts that worldwide consumption of animal-based food will rise 80 percent in the next few decades. This rise in global meat-eating threatens to increase deforestation in the Amazon and other parts of the world, with the expansion of land needed for pasture, corn, and soybeans.
Scientists on both sides of the debate...
“On any given day, my mom and dad might’ve been studying for an exam, attending parent-teacher conferences, or writing a research paper—all while working full-time and getting three meals on the table,” says Horace E. Anderson Jr., JD, the newly-appointed Dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “It couldn’t have been easy, but they were our example. That might be why my three sisters and I have 11 degrees between us.”
For Anderson, whose parents immigrated to the US from Jamaica more than 50...
