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Pace University is pleased to announce the establishment of the Gale Epstein Center for Technology, Policy, and the Environment, made possible by a significant gift from Gale Epstein, a New York City-based philanthropist and business leader. The new center is housed in the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.

On December 6, 2024, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University hosted the 23rd annual Alfred B. DelBello Land Use and Sustainable Development Conference. This year’s theme, Fostering the Development of Sustainable Communities through Innovative Strategies, brought together hundreds of attorneys, professionals, and local leaders to discuss best practices in land use and sustainable development.

Pace University was recently awarded $476,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support a three-year interdisciplinary initiative, Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies. The project will advance environmental justice and the environmental humanities at Pace, building on the university’s strengths in experiential learning and place-based education.

Pace University’s Federal Reserve Challenge Team continues its legacy of excellence, winning the 2024 New York Regional College Federal Reserve Challenge competition and ranking in the top five nationally out of 119 participating institutions— the largest in the competition’s history. The team also received an honorable mention as national finalists, competing against prestigious schools such as Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Michigan.

Professor Jill I. Gross, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and a distinguished faculty member of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University , is shedding light on the past and future of arbitration law with her newest book, The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform.

When U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand toured Pace University’s Cyber Range, she greeted each student with a handshake and call to action in safeguarding our national security: “You’re learning something very important for our country.”

The senator from New York – joined by lawmakers, students, university leadership, and business leaders – was in Pleasantville on November 15, 2024 to see first-hand Pace’s state-of-the-art computer simulation laboratory that teaches students to be on the front-lines of defending against as cyber-attack.

Pace University Art Gallery presents Critical Connections: Protest Photography Past + Present, in collaboration with Blasian March — a movement designed to create Black and Asian solidarity through mutual education and celebration. The exhibition opens with a free public reception on Thursday, November 14, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

A coalition of lawmakers, small business groups, and entrepreneurs came together recently to celebrate the expansion of Pace University’s on-site small business counseling services to Flatbush, Brooklyn.

As part of National Arts and Humanities Month, Pace University is highlighting its commitment to experiential learning in the humanities. The university recently kicked-off The Ground Beneath Our Feet (GBOF), a program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which provides students with hands-on experience while connecting them to history and current events.

Pace University will kick-off its annual Social Justice Week on Saturday across its three campuses – in lower Manhattan, Pleasantville, and at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains. In its fifth year, the week features events that adhere to values of equity and inclusion while engaging the campus community in learning activities and dialogue centered on the issues of social justice.