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"It's gonna be mandatory that the NYPD is going to have officers positioned in places like Foley Square and throughout Lower Manhattan," said Darrin Porcher, a Pace University professor and former NYPD lieutenant. Porcher said the department's prep is multifaceted and includes monitoring activity online. "Intelligence Division is going to look in to possibly excessive airline trips into New York City from places where we had co-conspirators that were part of the Jan. 6 offensive," Porcher said.

"The intelligence division is going to look into possibly excessive airline trips into New York City from places where we had co-conspirators that were part of the Jan. 6 offensive," said security expert Darrin Porcher of Pace University, a former NYPD lieutenant.

Watch CBS2's Political Reporter Marcia Kramer's extended interview with Pace University professor and former NYPD Lt. Darrin Porcher.

Dyson Professor Kimberly Collica-Cox Op-Ed was published in the Daily News: “I was having such anxiety…I’m not saying I was going to hurt myself, but when those pups came in, I’m just saying, it saved me.” This is the voice of an incarcerated mother who misses her children, a graduate of Parenting, Prison and Pups (PPP), the first and only program of its kind. Since 2017, PPP, an evidence-based parenting program, integrated with animal-assisted therapy (AAT), is provided to incarcerated mothers at the Westchester County Department of Correction, in partnership with Pace University and Hudson Valley Paws for a Cause. With March hailed as Second Chance Month, a commitment to furthering reintegrative processes, PPP provides a second chance to incarcerated mothers who want to maintain healthy bonds with their children.

Pace University New York City Dyson Professor Kelley Kreitz answers the question “Why Study English?” Nathan Heller documents what may be the demise of the traditional English major as it once thrived in the wood-panelled seminar rooms of élite universities (“The End of the English Major,” March 6th). But schools of that kind make up less than five per cent of the country’s institutions of higher learning. At the other ninety-five per cent, the humanities are already combining traditional pedagogy with newer approaches. At my private, midsize university in lower Manhattan, enrollment in our English department has grown by forty-seven per cent in the past two years, to about a hundred and fifty majors. Our courses incorporate archival research and community collaboration.

The day after switching to daylight saving time, suicide rates were found to rise by 6% by Eric Osborne-Christenson, an assistant professor of economics and associate chair of the Economics Department at Pace University, as published in the journal Health Economics. While it’s still up for debate on which time will be used, research suggests that a change needs to be made.

"People are considerably more resilient than is commonly assumed, so I did not anticipate substantial mental health effects," said Anthony Mancini (opens in new tab), a clinical psychologist at Pace University who was not involved in the current study but who published similar findings in the journal Psychological Medicine (opens in new tab) in 2021. Lockdowns may have cut both ways on mental health, Mancini added. Although they ripped people from their daily routines and increased isolation, they also cut down on stressful day-to-day hassles like commuting.

Hayley Piazza, a sophomore Health Science major at Pace University was interviewed about her work to support student voters at Pace. Hayley has been working with CCAR since her first semester. Hayley discusses her passion for getting STEM students civically engaged. She also discusses her and her peer's reactions to climate change, the lack of gun control laws, and safe access to reproductive services.