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Pace University’s Land Use Law Center recently held its 21st annual Alfred B. DelBello Land Use and Sustainable Development Conference “Land Use Under Siege: Revisiting Well Grounded” at the NYS Judicial Institute at Elisabeth Haub School of Law. The event was host to many sessions discussing land use and zoning issues and solutions, including the afternoon session, “Meeting Local Housing Needs”

Kindness is key in helping students succeed during the pandemic, Pace University's president Marvin Krislov writes. Faculty and staff need compassion, too.

Professor Elyse Diamond shares news about the opening of the Legal Hand Call-In Center Serving Westchester County at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

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.