The Pace University chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) is proud to announce its incredible success at the 2025 AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans—one of the premier events for marketing students around the globe. Competing among more than 330 collegiate chapters worldwide, Pace AMA earned a coveted spot in the Top 10 globally, and clinched second place in the Design Lab competition.

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This year’s conference, themed Evolve, focused on growth, innovation, and the future of marketing. Over three dynamic days, students engaged in high-level competitions, chapter development activities, career-building workshops, and powerful networking opportunities.

Adding to their achievements, the Pace AMA chapter was also invited to present on Professional Development, showcasing their innovative approach to helping members build real-world skills through office tours, panel discussions, workshops, and curated networking events.

“Our time in New Orleans was filled with learning, growth, and connection,” said Francis Minguez '25. “We’re so proud to represent Pace on an international stage and can’t wait to bring all our insights back to campus.”

This milestone reflects Pace’s continued commitment to excellence, experiential learning, and empowering students to thrive in an ever-evolving industry. Congratulations to our Pace AMA team!

Katherine Richardson

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Management and Management Science Department

We caught up with Katherine Richardson, PhD—associate dean for graduate programs and professor in the Department of Management and Management Science—to reflect on her 15-year journey at Pace University. She shared how her experience in accounting, finance, and marketing informs her teaching; why she’s passionate about employee well-being; and how her path from corporate life to the classroom led her to leadership at Lubin.

Why Management?

Management is about planning and organization. I’ve always been good at that, but it’s also about people and collaboration—working together to accomplish goals. We all bring different skills and abilities to an organization, and management includes harnessing that human capital to be most effective. I’m more of a micro person, focused on organizational behavior and human resource management.

Why Lubin/Pace?  

Lubin has a great location in New York City, which attracts students and faculty who want to be near the action. The city is full of energy, and so is our community. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!

What are your research interests/areas?

My research areas/interests are work–life balance and employee health and wellness, with an emphasis on how individuals cope with change and the related stress that may result from major life and career transitions.

Why is it important to advance research in this area or these areas?

Interest in employee health and well-being has certainly grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, and much of what we know about these topics has been built over 40-plus years of research. During the past decade, however, there’s been a significant shift in how employees work and communicate—fueled by the use of information and communications technology. It’s important to continue exploring how employees can manage workplace demands and find balance in a 24-hour connected society.

What do students learn in your classroom?  

In my Negotiations courses, students learn how to prepare and plan for a negotiation, how to advocate for themselves, and how to find collaborative solutions. These skills are helpful not just for salary negotiations, but also for situations like buying a car or renting an apartment. In my Training and Development class, I ask students to think about a future job they would like and they are tasked with building a plan to get there—what should they be doing now to acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities they’ll need?

Discuss your professional path and its impact on how you teach and what you teach. How did you go from teaching to becoming Associate Dean?

My undergraduate degree was in accounting—and my first job was as an auditor with KPMG. I learned a lot and earned my Certified Public Accountant (CPA) credential, but I also realized I didn’t want to continue working in public accounting. I left KPMG and took a position with HBO as a financial analyst. The less demanding work hours gave me the opportunity to pursue a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree part-time while still working. I focused on marketing so I could broaden my skills beyond accounting and finance.

Midway through my MBA, I left HBO and went to work for the People magazine division of Time Inc. This was during the tail end of the glory days of print publishing, and that job was a lot of fun! I worked on the launch of Teen People magazine in their consumer marketing division—essentially direct marketing to grow the subscriber base and manage newsstand sales. I got to work on a commercial featuring NSYNC and a very young Justin Timberlake—lol!

I enjoyed Time Inc., but after earning my MBA, I realized I wanted to further my business education by pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with the intention to teach at a university. I’ve always liked learning and being around other curious people. I chose to focus my doctoral studies on management, which I felt had application to any business discipline. My corporate work experience in accounting, finance, and marketing has made me a bit of a jack-of-all-trades—which can be helpful as an Associate Dean.

What are some challenges you had to overcome to get to where you are today?

Finding balance in my work and home life was a challenge. It’s difficult at times to be a working parent, but academia can provide more flexibility than other jobs. It helps to have a supportive partner and a community of friends and colleagues you can rely on when necessary. You don’t have to do it alone.

Of which triumph are you most proud?

I’ll focus on a professional triumph—the first academic paper I ever published won the Best Paper Award for that journal. It was a meta-analysis on stress management interventions. I’m particularly proud of it because the paper began as a class assignment in one of my doctoral classes. A professor in another course dismissed the idea of organizations caring about the stress levels of their employees. But at the encouragement of my doctoral advisor and co-author, I stuck with the topic and continued working on the paper after the course ended. I went on to present it at a conference, and not only was it published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, but it won the Best Paper Award for 2008–2009. The meta-analysis has over 2,100 citations and still garners more than 100 citations per year. Clearly, it struck a chord.

What is the single most important lesson you’d like to impart to your students?

Don’t stress! I know students have a lot of worries about passing their courses and finding a job, but it’s going to work out. And if you wind up in an organization or profession that you don’t like—change. People can have several careers over their lifetime. I’m already on my third and counting—so don’t feel stuck in any job, and never settle. Learn something new and move on!

What does #LubinLife mean to you?

#LubinLife means we’re all connected in this great community. We come from diverse backgrounds and have expertise and interest in different fields, but we share a common goal of Opportunitas. We are stronger together!

Courses Professor Richardson teaches:

• BUS 101: Contemporary Business Practice
• MGT 365: Managerial Negotiations
• MGT 363: Training and Development
• MGT 150: Managerial and Organizational Concepts
• MGT 650: Negotiations and Bargaining
• MGT 683: Training and Development
• MGT 685: Recruitment and Staffing
• MGT 835: Seminar in Organizational Behavior

Professor Margot Pollans delivered the James D. Hopkins Memorial Lecture on Monday, April 21, on "Inundations: Pain, Bodies, and the Law." Dean Horace Anderson appointed Professor Pollans as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023–2025 term. During the holder's term, the James D. Hopkins Professor delivers a lecture that is open to the entire law school community and members of the public.

Professor Pollans opened her lecture outlining the different contexts in which people experience physical inundation such as toxic exposure, gun violence, radiation, and noise. “How well legal regimes responds to this condition is, to me, a really important metric of good governance,” she explained. “Here in the United States, inundation management does not paint a picture of good governance, and it has not for a very long time. Instead, for decades, it has been priming us to become fascists subjects.”

Professor Pollans defined inundation and made the case that it is an essential unit of analysis. She offered a taxonomy of regulatory approaches to inundation, explaining that little current law prevents inundation. Instead, it facilitates individuals who want to protect themselves. And, finally, she explored the consequences of these approaches for both individuals and regulators. Throughout her lecture, Professor Pollans offered specific examples of inundation, many of which translate into our everyday life. She observed that, “[i]nundation includes a broad range of harms, but what they all have in common is that they all flow from the permeability of the human body.”

Professor Pollans concluded her remarks with the following words: “For as long as bodies remain permeable, physical inundation remains a critical unit of analysis for human experience. Permeability creates mutual dependence. Self-shielding serves primarily to drive us further apart. We have only to look at the long-term effects of covid lockdown to see a society-wide experiment with this phenomenon. Resisting fascism will require profound collective action. Shield and cleanup regimes did not cause fascism, but I do think that they have weakened our capacity for collective action. I invite you to prove me wrong.”

Professor Margot Pollans joined Haub Law’s faculty in 2015. She is the Faculty Director of the Pace Food Law Center and, during her time at Haub Law, Professor Pollans has been a leader in building the national reputation of the Pace Food Law Center. She is currently the Joseph P. D’Alessandro Faculty Scholar and previously, she served as the Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar from 2020–2022. She teaches several classes including Agriculture Law and the Environment, Food Systems & the Environment, and Administrative Law.

Professor Pollans is an accomplished scholar whose primary research interests lie in the areas of food and agriculture law, administrative law and social justice. Her academic work has appeared in a variety of journals including in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review. She is also the co-author of a casebook, Food Law: Cases & Materials. In 2022, she was named the recipient of Haub Law’s distinguished Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for her article, "Eaters, Powerless by Design" published by Michigan Law Review (120 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2022)).

The title of James D. Hopkins Professor of Law is awarded to a member of the faculty for a two-year term in recognition of outstanding scholarship and teaching. The designation is among the Law School’s most significant faculty honors. The Hopkins Professor is selected by the Dean in consultation with the former holders of the Hopkins Chair. The prior James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2021–2023 term was Professor Noa Ben-Asher.

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Meet Jacob Cherry, a 1L at Haub Law whose path to legal education is anything but typical. As a child actor, Jacob shared the screen with stars like Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum—but today, he’s traded in his SAG card for his Pace Library Card where you’ll find him studying for his Contracts, Civil Procedure, and Torts classes.

Originally from New Jersey, Jacob spent much of his youth traveling between New York and Los Angeles for acting. But when he started thinking differently about his future, it was his visit to Haub Law’s Accepted Students Day that sparked a new passion.

“Based on the energy and attitude of the faculty and students, I was immediately drawn to Haub Law,” shared Jacob. “The focus on camaraderie here really spoke to me—it set the school apart.”

Since starting law school, Jacob has fully embraced the Haub Law community. He joined SEALS (the Sports, Entertainment, and Arts Law Society) and was elected as a 1L representative. He regularly connects with classmates through study groups and even launched a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, creating a fun and collaborative space for students to unwind and bond outside of class.

Jacob has also found meaningful mentorship by taking advantage of office hours with his professors, who are always willing to discuss course materials or provide advice on his career goals. Those conversations, he says, have been instrumental in shaping his early experience at Haub Law.

Looking ahead, Jacob is interested in litigation and trial advocacy, and excited to be taking Entertainment Law next semester—all skills that align with his previous experience as an actor and will provide a chance to blend his past and present in meaningful ways.

Jacob was recently featured in People magazine about his journey from film sets to the halls of law school, written by another Haub Law student, 1L Flex student Tereza Shkurtaj.