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Ka’ramuu Kush, a faculty member of the Sands College of Performing Arts, is sharing wisdom and experience gained from many years as a working actor, director, and writer with students—and has already made quite an impact.

January 12, 2024
In the Media

The Examiner News adds to the coverage of Pace Animal Advocacy Clinic’s efforts to lobby for a law that bans wildlife killing contests in New York (Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed the bill into law).

“Anyone can decide an animal is a ‘nuisance’ animal,” explained Michelle Land, professor of environmental law and policy at Pace University in Pleasantville and the chief faculty member of the Pace Animal Advocacy Clinic.

January 12, 2024
The Examiner News
Alumni

Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board Member and alumnus Paul Ryan ’86, Literature and Communications, was named the executive producer for NBC’s long-running news show Dateline. In this role, Ryan will oversee the broadcast, streaming, and podcast entities associated with the brand.

January 11, 2024
In the Media

The Journal News reports Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed a bill that bans wildlife killing contests. This past year, getting the legislation passed became the top priority of Pace University's Animal Advocacy Clinic, where students researched wildlife killing contests, petitioned and lobbied for the passage of S4099/A2917. Pace’s Animal Advocacy Clinic class is led by Dyson Professor Michelle Land, with Director of Blue CoLab John Cronin as co-instructor.

January 4, 2024
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In the Media

Dyson Professor Melvin Williams speaks with USA Today about Gypsy Rose Blanchard being free from prison and going viral over the internet.

"The curiosity fades hastily as algorithm-influenced digital publics move on to the next trending story, and Gypsy's transitory celebrity span fails to sustain interest," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.

January 4, 2024
USA TODAY
Alumni

Jamaican American entrepreneur and trailblazing author Glen Laman ’73 is a Dyson alumnus whose success has been built on a foundation of the liberal arts and sciences.

January 2, 2024
Alumni

Dyson alumna Juliana Martins ’19 is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur whose success is built on communications and business skills developed at Pace.

December 19, 2023
In the Media

Dyson Professor S. Perl Egendorf is the winner of The Story Exchange’s Women In Science Incentive Prize — a $25,000 grant program that supports innovative female scientists working to combat the devastating impacts of climate change.

December 14, 2023
The Story Exchange
In the Media

Dyson Professor James Brusseau speaks with CNBC about why AI won’t replace humans any time soon.

“AI and humans are both knowledge producers, just like the sculptor and painter are both artists,” he tells CNBC Make It. “But they will be forever, in my mind, be distinct and separated. One will never be better than the other so much as they will just be different.”

December 14, 2023
CNBC
In the Media

Dyson Professor Seong Jae Min pens an op-ed in The Korea Times about the obsession with standardized beauty.

December 14, 2023
The Korea Times