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A record-number 30 Pace University students have been accepted into the 2023 class of the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network Fellowship Program, the University today announced.
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Record-Number 22 Dyson Students Named United Nations Millennium Fellows
A record 30 Pace University students have been named to the United Nations Academic Impact Millennium Fellowship Class of 2023, including 22 students from the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences.
Students accepted into the UN Millennium Fellowship program launch individual or group semester-long projects relating to one or more of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, 17 objectives focused on bettering our world. The program connects Fellows to their campus cohort, as well as to other Fellows across the globe.
The 30 Pace students selected for the Class of 2023 are among 4,000 Millennium Fellows from more than 260 campuses across 38 nations—only 9 percent of more than 44,000 applicants were accepted.
Pace has developed a tradition of participation in the Millennium Fellowship, and former Fellows have left a lasting impact on Pace and the surrounding communities. Previous projects have focused on combatting food insecurity on campus, improving access to menstrual products, providing classroom mental health toolkits, and letter-writing campaigns as a source of global connection.
The Dyson students selected for the Class of 2023 are:
- Aidann Gia Bacolodan ’25, Political Science
- Harrison Bakst ’24, Psychology
- Pamella-Rayelle Barais ’25, Political Science
- Isabella Yasmeen Birjandi ‘26, Behavioral Neuroscience
- Jackson Blackburn ’24, Communications
- Austin Chappelle ’26, Environmental Science
- Layne Davis ’25, Peace and Justice Studies and Political Science
- Anastasia Khanukov ’24, Economics
- Ryan Kwon ’26, Film and Screen Studies
- Ellisa Lecointe ’25, Biology
- Lily Lockwood ’23, Undecided/Exploring (Dyson)
- Lilah McCormack ’25, Digital Journalism
- Louisa (Lulu) Moquete ’24, Mathematics
- Kelly Ng ’26, Biology
- Margaret Pereira ’25, Peace and Justice Studies
- Alexis Pickering ’26, Political Science
- Gianna Rotunno ‘26, Undecided/Exploring (Dyson)
- Saloni Shah ‘24, Economics
- Laila Shakir ‘26, Psychology
- Marianna Visbal ’26, Political Science
- Emily Whitehill ’24, Communication and Media Studies
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A record-number 17 Pace University students have been accepted into the 2022 class of the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network Fellowship Program, the University today announced.