Pace University News

The Pace Women’s Justice Center (PWJC) is proud to announce its 2024 "Raising the Bar" Benefit Concert, a pivotal event dedicated to raising awareness and support for victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse. The concert will take place on Thursday, October 24, 2024, at the historic Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, featuring a special performance by Grammy award-winning artist, songwriter, actor, author, and advocate, Ashanti.

College of Health Professions doctoral student among American Association of College of Nursing’s Jonas Scholars.

Melvin L. Williams, PhD, associate professor of communication and media studies, was featured on CBS News: The Daily Report in an in-studio interview, where he discussed celebrity culture, politics, and the 2024 Democratic and Republican National Convention.

Melvin L. Williams, PhD, associate professor of communication and media studies, was featured on CBC: Your Morning, Canada's national morning show. Williams discussed the impacts and dangers of celebrity endorsements in the 2024 US Presidential Election.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to announce that Professor Laura Portuondo of the University of Houston Law Center has been selected as the winner of the 2024–2025 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law for her paper Gendered Liberty, 113 Geo. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025).

The Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems is excited to announce that Dr. Li-Chiou Chen has assumed the role of our school’s interim dean, starting on August 16.

During the 2024 Summer semester, Pace University organized its yearly student exchange initiative in collaboration with URL LaSalle from Barcelona.

“In a world where people are constantly looking for simple answers and solutions (e.g. Is technology good or bad?), the fact is that the impact of technology (and in this study, texting specifically) differs based on the interaction between multiple things (in this study, personality characteristics and people’s motivations for texting),” said co-author Leora Trub, an associate professor of psychology at Pace University.

"When Michael Jordan—the Greatest of all time basketball player—was pressured about providing a political endorsement, he informed the sports media world that 'Republicans buy sneakers, too,'" said Professor Larry Chiagouris, brand marketing and advertising expert at Pace University. "His intent was clearly that his craft was a sports star and not someone who is expert at telling someone who to vote for or who to vote against."