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“How to Power a City” is a documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker and Pace University professor Melanie LaRosa, was shot in several locations around the U.S. including the Southeast Michigan city, which is located within Detroit’s corporate boundary. The film documents similar resilient, grassroots efforts in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, New York and Puerto Rico.

“Given the alarming decline in biodiversity globally and statewide, New York has a special duty to end this indiscriminate killing of wild animals that masquerades as wildlife conservation.” said Michelle Land, Pace University professor of environmental law and policy, and chief faculty of its Animal Advocacy Clinic. “Ending the senseless slaughter from wildlife killing contests is the priority of our clinic students, who will be pressing Governor Hochul to sign the bill into law and, we hope, personally deliver their 550 signature petition in support of the bill.”

Arons said Darrin Porcher, a former New York Police Department lieutenant who is now an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Pace University, would also provide expert testimony in police training, tactics and use of force from the "ground level" perspective.

"At its core, the missing Titanic submersible vessel contains all the essential elements of an addictive, alluring media spectacle," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.

Dyson Professor Kim Collica-Cox and the her program Puppies on the Block, an extension of the Parenting, Prison & Pups Program, will soon extend to more incarcerated young men ages 18 to 25, Corrections1 reports.

Puppies on the Block, an extension of the well-established and award-winning Parenting, Prison & Pups Program, is serving as a puppy fostering and initial canine training program with incarcerated women and soon with incarcerated men, ages 18 to 25, in the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP).