With a cup of coffee and an eye-roll, Alyssa channels classic Bea Arthur (if Dorothy Zbornak spent her daylight hours cooing at baby animals being cute on the Internet). She wavers between fierce sarcasm and sweet, girlish charm; her nails will be painted, but she is not to be taken lightly. Additionally, she plays caregiver to one fat rabbit.
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"Hip hop, in a lot of ways, is a manifestation of pain," says Justin Winley, a 2021 graduate who majored in Film and Screen Studies.
Business students Ritvi Shah '22 and Luanne Dinh '22 talk about their experiences working with Pace's Small Business Development Center and how they helped support New York City-based NAME GLO as it navigated the rough waters of business during a pandemic.
"Eighty-five percent of graduates with autism nationally, are not gainfully employed within five years of graduation. Those are scary statistics," says Jennifer Pankowski, EdD, a clinical assistant professor at Pace's School of Education. "So, I thought we could use the avatars from the School of Ed to address some of hurdles that our OASIS students are facing."
Twenty years ago, the Pace Community lost 47 members-students and alumni alike-and was closed for several weeks as we worked toward recovery. To mark the solemn occasion, we asked members of the Pace Community to share their experiences and recollections of the day and the time after.
This year was hard; for everyone. For you at home and for us at Pace-for our students, for their families, and for the faculty and staff charged with providing opportunity to everyone in our community. There was nothing easy or familiar about navigating the uncharted waters of making a university function during a global pandemic, but we did our best.
Maral Javadifar working out with players from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Photo courtesy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Her maturity, her focus, and her determination to succeed was what originally made Maral Javadifar '12 stand out to the Pace University Athletics Department.
For months prior to competition season, the team works late into the evening-researching, revising, developing their presentation, and rehearsing-and the faculty is working right alongside them. "Working with the team keeps us sharp," says Weinstock. "We have to provide the students with the most current, the most state-of-the-art, knowledge we have, and we have to do it as if they're colleagues and not just students."
Begun as an experimental course in 2013, the Environmental Policy Clinic, founded by Cronin, senior fellow in the Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (DCISE) and the former Hudson Riverkeeper, and Michelle Land, JD ’02, clinical assistant professor and director of programming for DCISE, has developed into an environmentally-focused and hands-on learning-based experience. The Clinic, which, since its start, has included students from 20 majors, was created on the...
Profiles
BFA in Art student Christian Solar '23 is taking a deeper look at the decay of technology and the intersection of when the past becomes the present in his new exhibit Digital Distorted, on view until October 30 at the Pace University Art Gallery.
For many Pace students, learning doesn't stop once one leaves the classroom for the day; or even, once one acquires their degree. Kevin McGovern '83, '21, who earned his bachelor's in business administration and CPA designation thirty-eight years ago, epitomizes this ethos of persistence and the continual ability to evolve and grow with the times-which in fact, is one of the reasons he decided to return to Pace and pursue a master's in cybersecurity.
"My main goal has always been to shed light on the injustices that Black people and people of color face constantly, while also working towards finding solutions," says Pleasantville Political Science major Kimberly Mars '23.
"On any given day, my mom and dad might've been studying for an exam, attending parent-teacher conferences, or writing a research paper-all while working full-time and getting three meals on the table," says Horace E. Anderson Jr., JD, the newly-appointed Dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law.
You may have caught a flying demonstration or spied a silhouette on a rooftop, but the relationship Pace shares with its birds of prey goes way beyond that.
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An imagined retelling of an event that happened in Bergenfield, New Jersey, more than 25 years ago. The suicide pact was the catalyst for the re-evaluation of burnout culture, the economic undercurrents at the time, and more.
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Welcome to the third release from Vagabonds! We're an anthology of travelers coming together to share our stories the only way we know how. Thank you, reader, for taking this ride with us.
"We want to create one giant blurb of consciousness through small shot-gun blasts on each page. This is otherwise known as cigarette smoke, dirty words and everything in between. Basically, Open Mind wants artists that are driven with style."