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Biology professor Nancy Krucher, PhD, understands the transformative power of research. She’s a pioneer in the fight against breast cancer, and she’s just received a three-year $400,241 grant from the National Cancer Institute through the National Institutes of Health to study new methods to combat cancer cell development of resistance to targeted treatments.
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Director of Communications and Strategic Operations at Seidenberg; executive and life coach for LGBTQ+ leaders; INvolve 2022 OUTstanding LGBT+ Future Leader; and NASA diversity, equity, and inclusion panelist. Katie Todd has been busy ever since they left Scotland and came to Pace and they show no signs of stopping. Get to know this Pace powerhouse.
In China, “people get angry,” said Sheying Chen, a professor of public administration and social policy at Pace University in New York. “They say, ‘I worked full time and made it to retirement age; you want me to work more?’”
Casting director and alumna Amy Hutchings’s degree in anthropology has informed her long-spanning career and belief in unity.
Last year was a challenging one for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top leadership.
The party’s 20th National Congress in October last year marked the beginning of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) third term, making him the nation’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong (毛澤東), with his loyalists dominating the new politburo, the CCP’s leadership circle.
Every human being will experience grief at some point in their lives — it’s a fundamental human experience. “I think it’s important to underscore that people are equipped to grieve, and for the most part people do it OK,” says Anthony Mancini, a psychological researcher at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.
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.
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.