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"I haven't seen anything that makes it anything more than crimes committed in the state of Georgia violating Georgia law," Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University, said. "Has nothing really to do with federal jurisdiction."

September 15, 2023
Axios
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‘Progression’ will always be relative and subjective based on one’s positionality,” said Dr. Melvin Williams said in an email. Williams is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University. “Hip-hop has traditionally been in conversation with queer and non-normative sexualities and included LGBTQ+ people in the shaping of its cultural signifiers behind the scenes as choreographers, songwriters, make-up artists, set designers, and other roles stereotypically attributed to queer culture.”

September 15, 2023
The Washington Blade
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A record number of Pace University students have been named to the United Nations’ Millennium Fellowship program. The students will spend a semester working on projects together focused on advancing the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals, which include eliminating poverty, ensuring access to clean energy and securing access to clean water. The Pace students, part of Blue Colab Right to Know H20 team, will be focused on improving water quality and allowing people to know their drinking water quality.

September 15, 2023
News12
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News12 covered Pace’s weekend festivities honoring its National Championship women’s lacrosse team, which included a half-time ceremony during the football game; The Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge being lit in blue and gold; proclamations from public officials including Gov. Kathy Hochul, County Executive George Latimer, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea-Stewart-Cousins, Assemblywoman MaryJane Shimsky, among others; and Westchester County declaring September 12 as “Pace University Women’s Lacrosse Team National Champions Day.”

September 15, 2023
News12
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Pace honored its National Championship women’s lacrosse team during half time at the Pace Football game.

September 15, 2023
News12
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Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, director of the Global Asia Institute at Pace University: The findings indicate a rich and lively religious life, both formal and informal, in today’s Chinese society. Even though Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism) remains a minority experience, its social and cultural influence is disproportionate to its small membership in the overall population. It is heartening to learn that at least before COVID, “the number of people with some connection to Christian faith is greater than zongjiao measures reveal.”

September 8, 2023
Christianity Today
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But courts are also "extremely reluctant" to sever defendants from joint trials, pointed out Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University. "It puts prosecutors at a disadvantage in having to reuse evidence and witnesses, and gives defendants who will be tried in the future a preview of the prosecutor's case," Gershman said.

September 8, 2023
Yahoo News
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Stephanie Akunvabey, a native New Yorker who has dedicated her career in higher education to championing issues relating to equity and inclusion, has been named Pace University’s new associate vice president for diversity and inclusion and its chief diversity officer.

September 8, 2023
News12
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Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in the New York Law Journal about the post-mortem on the police raid of a Kansas newspaper.

September 8, 2023
Law.com
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Pace University Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies Adam Klein pioneered the concept of information laundering.[9] Samantha Korta, a researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, expanded Klein’s model to encompass all counterfeit narratives, including disinformation (deliberately false information) and malinformation (true information deliberately contorted by context and presentation to be misleading).

September 8, 2023
The Strategy Bridge