Dyson College of Arts and Sciences News

Dyson Public Administration Professor Ric Kolenda provides expert commentary to Treasure Coast News on rising unemployment along Florida’s Treasure Coast. Kolenda says he expects the trend to continue and notes that the effects could extend into the public sector.

New York Almanack highlights the forthcoming book Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century (NYU Press, 2026), by Interim Associate Provost of Academic Programs and Strategy Kelley Kreitz, who leads the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org. The piece explores how Spanish-language writers and editors in 19th-century New York built influential media networks that supported anti-colonial movements and strengthened democratic ideals.

Dyson Professor Andrew Sciallo pens an op-ed in USA Today exploring how the American family isn’t collapsing—it’s evolving. He writes that today’s shifts in relationships, independence, and identity reflect adaptation to modern realities, even as older generations struggle with a version of the American dream no longer rooted in property or possessions.

Pace’s commitment to experiential learning and community engagement is also highlighted by News 12 Westchester, which covered the graduation ceremony for the University’s Parenting, Prison, and Pups program. Led by Dyson Criminal Justice Professor Kimberly Collica-Cox, the initiative brings together Pace students, incarcerated mothers at the Westchester County Jail, and therapy dogs to support healing, parenting skills, and emotional well-being. This semester, nine mothers and ten students graduated from the program, marking a meaningful milestone for participants and the broader community.

In EURPORE SAYS, Dyson Psychology Professor Terence Hines weighs in on renewed interest in the long-mythologized theft of Albert Einstein’s brain, cautioning against simplistic claims linking intelligence to isolated anatomical features and underscoring the complexity of human cognition— and Newsy Today has the story.