Pace University News

President Krislov writes about working harder to find common ground and making a genuine effort to treat each other with respect in the new year.

Adjunct Professor Jessica Bacher writes about Haub Law's newonline health law and policy certificate program.

Haub Law Adjunct Professor Debra Cohen speaks with Gothamist about the untold loss of DNA evidence after a warehouse fire. “It's at all related to poor conditions in those facilities. Poor supervision, poor monitoring, poor upkeep,” said civil rights attorney Debra Cohen, who added that civil cases also rely on the NYPD’s storage of evidence. Even without an event like a fire or a flood, Cohen said attorneys often raise red flags about individual cases in which DNA evidence has degraded because it wasn’t properly stored.

Pace University Professor of Biology Nancy Krucher, PhD, has received a three-year $400,241 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study new methods to combat cancer cell development of resistance to targeted treatments.

A CBS story featuring Seidenberg Professor and former Riverkeeper John Cronin is airing again as more whales find their way in New York waterways.

“New York City is a water city,” said John Cronan, a renowned environmentalist, now a professor at Pace University, “a humpback whale does not know that it is swimming through a city that is what makes this such an amazing place.”

Dyson Professor Emilie Zaslow, an expert in American Girl, talks about how the famed doll company is facing a backlash while promoting inclusion in an article published by The MinnPost.

American Girl built itself around themes like history, girlhood, initiative and innocence. The characters’ wholesome image — combined with expensive dolls that are designed and marketed as something to be explicitly cared for — means that the brand is also one that is “appreciated by more conservative families,” said Emilie Zaslow, a professor and chair of communication and media studies at Pace University and the author of “Playing with America’s Doll: A Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection.”

Pace School of Performing Arts Dyson Adjunct Professor Robin Miles, MFA, is featured in The New Yorker discussing the growth of audio books and how this self-described “vocal chameleon” finds her voices.

Haub Law announces Barbara Ballan has been named the inaugural LLM Sustainable Business Law Fellow of Haub Law’s newly launched Sustainable Business Law Hub.

Adjunct Professor Debra Cohen spoke with The New York Times regarding the massive fire that took place at a Police Department warehouse in Brooklyn, erasing decades of evidence for cases that ranged from reckless driving to murders and cold cases.

Pace University is embarking on a transformation of One Pace Plaza, the central building of its Lower Manhattan campus, to include new academic spaces, a modernized residence hall, and a state-of-the-art performing arts center. The rebuilt theater is slated to serve not only the university’s performing and creative arts programs, but also to act as a central gathering space and cultural venue for the Lower Manhattan community. The modernized One Place Plaza is also being designed to lower carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency.