Jessica Magaldi, JD is the Ivan Fox Professor and Scholar of Business Law and Associate Chair of the Legal Studies and Taxation Department (Lubin School of Business, NYC). Her research is focused on the law’s intersection with business and technology, with an emphasis on equity issues. Recent projects include image-based sexual abuse (so-called “revenge porn”), entrepreneurial approaches to providing affordable legal services to people of moderate means, and the impact of gender diversity on corporate board performance. Her research has been published in leading law reviews and journals, including the American Criminal Law Review and the Journal of Business Ethics. She also publishes opinion essays, most recently in the Times Union and Visible magazine, to reach wider audiences and to influence public policy on important issues. 

Prof. Magaldi has been widely recognized for reflecting the principles of her research agenda in her service to the university and profession. She received a Jefferson Foundation Medal for Public Service, is a Faculty Fellow of the Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and was recently named a finalist for a 2023 Public Voices Fellowship to Advance the Rights of Women and Girls from Equality Now and The OpEd Project.

Prof. Magaldi’s teaching strongly reflects her commitment to use her research to positively impact her students. She was awarded a Periclean Faculty Leadership grant and the Homer and Charles Pace Faculty Award, for which she was nominated by alumni for the transformative effect she has on students. Currently, Prof. Magaldi is developing a course that will bring her research interests to students in a relatable and exciting class that focuses on the law of the music industry through the work of Taylor Swift as an artist and businessperson. News of the course recently went viral on TikTok, generating over 143,000 likes and shares.

Terence M. Hines, PhD is Professor of Psychology, PLV. He is also Adjunct Professor of Neurology at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY. In addition to the Introductory Psychology course, he teaches Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology and Parapsychology and the Occult. He is a member of the Association for Psychological Science and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Hines’ research interests cover the area of cognitive neuroscience. They include the cognitive representation of number in long term memory and how bilingual memory is organized (not very well in his own head). A special focus of his writing is the cognitive and perceptual processes that lead people to accept invalid belief systems and perceive things that do not exist such as flying saucers, bigfoots (the correct plural) and lake monsters. From a more strictly neurological point of view, he studies the effects of brain damage and neuropathology on higher cognitive processes. One of his most well-known publications is “The Neuromythology of Einstein’s Brain” which appeared in Brain and Cognition.



Professor Hines’ most recent publication is “Projective Tests and Personality,” a chapter in the book Investigating Pop Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies (Routledge, 2023). He is working on a book with the working title of The Psychology and Science of Pseudoscience and Junk Science. Professor Hines has written extensively on pseudoscientific and parapsychological topics. He has recently published several book reviews, including a book review essay in Skeptic Magazine, on the problems with traditionally accepted forensic techniques now known to be invalid such as fingerprints, bite mark analysis and criminal profiling.

Maria Iacullo-Bird, PhD (Assistant Provost for Research/History, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) has been elected 2024–2025 president of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Prof. Iacullo-Bird has an extensive background in supporting student scholarly and creative inquiry through her oversight for the Society of Fellows of Dyson College, as the inaugural director of the Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences, and for her leadership in the nationally based Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). First elected in 2013 as a CUR Councilor, Iacullo-Bird served as the CUR Arts and Humanities Division Chair from 2016-2019 and since 2019 has been a member of the CUR Executive Board. She also is active in the international undergraduate research community as a member of the Alliance for Global Undergraduate Research (AGUR) Steering Committee and served as the U.S. CUR Ambassador to the Third World Congress on Undergraduate Research at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Prof. Iacullo-Bird will serve as president-elect in 2023-2024, president in 2024-2025, and immediate past-president in 2025-2026, with terms starting July 1 and ending June 30. Read the full CUR Press Release.

This year’s Jefferson Award Finalist has been selected by Multiplying for Good's Board of Directors to represent Pace at their national ceremony in October. The winner is Tresmaine Grimes PhD, Dean of the College of Arts and Science and School of Education.  

Janetta Rebold Benton, PhD (Distinguished Professor, Art, PLV, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) published The History of Western Art (Thames & Hudson, 2023). This book offers a concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of Western art from prehistory to the present day. Acknowledging that architecture, sculpture, painting, and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, the reader is invited to experience and appreciate the entirety of Western art. Focusing on the history in art history, each of the twelve chapters opens with a question to ponder, followed by a summary of the major historical developments of the period, touching on social structure, political organization, migration, race, religious beliefs, scientific advances, and customs. An exploration of these themes reveals how the visual arts from cave paintings and Egyptian pyramids to work by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Andy Goldsworthy, the Guerrilla Girls, and Faith Ringgold simultaneously shape, reflect, and document the culture of the time and place they were created. A secondary focus explores the constantly evolving aesthetic preferences that swing between naturalism and abstraction, with each era and style either rebelling against, or seeking to improve, the previous. 



Richly illustrated, this introductory survey offers a succinct and engaging introduction to some of the most important works of visual art in the Western tradition, reinterpreted for a twenty-first-century audience. Editions are in American and British English as well as Latvian (Jāna Rozes apgāds, Riga), German (Midas Verlag, Zurich), and Spanish (Arte Blume, Barcelona). 

Erica Johnson, PhD (English, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) published "A Modernist Meeting in Montparnasse: Freedom and Precarity in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Cora Sandel's Alberta and Freedom," Feminist Modernist Studies 6.2 (2023). This article is included in a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies dedicated to Caribbean modernist writer Jean Rhys, and her overlap with other writers of the period. The discussion focuses on the relationship between Rhys's writing during the interwar years and that of Norwegian modernist Cora Sandel, who lived just blocks from Rhys in Paris. Both explore the radical freedoms and feelings of vulnerability that Paris inspired in them as expatriates living in cosmopolitan communities there.

Mirjana Pantic, PhD (Media, Communication and the Visual Arts, PLV, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) published “Reporting in the Age of Coronavirus: Alternating Between ‘Shoe-Leather’ and ‘Slippers Journalism’” in the International Journal of Communication, 17. For this study, Professor Pantic interviewed international journalists to examine how they performed their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. She coined the term slippers journalism to describe practices reporters resorted to when they faced movement restrictions. Slippers journalism is the opposite of traditional, shoe-leather reporting that requires journalists to report on the ground.

Sarah Blackwood, PhD (English, NYC,Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) Kelley Kreitz, PhD (English, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) put the NYC English Department at the center of a national conversation about the place of the humanities in our universities and broader culture with their responses to an article in The New Yorker about dwindling national enrollments in the humanities. They highlighted the Pace English major’s unique and experiential curriculum, rapid growth (has grown by 40% in the last two years), and excellent professional preparation in the following ways:

• Kelley Kreitz penned a letter to the editor published in The New Yorker
• Sarah Blackwood wrote an essay that went viral about challenges and rewards of building such a vibrant program within difficult institutional. Since the New York Review of Books began tracking web stats, it’s the most-read piece they’ve ever published. 
• Sarah Blackwood was interviewed and featured in articles in both  Inside Higher Education and The Chronicle of Higher Education about curricular innovations in the English major at Pace
• Sarah Blackwood and Kelley Kreitz have been invited to speak on the plenary session of the Modern Language Association (the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature) Leadership Seminar in June 2023.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty and Alumni Rank Among the 2023 Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law

Karl Coplan, JD, Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic at Haub Law, along with Achinthi Vithanage, LLM, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs & Professor at Haub Law, were named to the 2023 Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law. Haub Law Adjunct Professor Steven Solow, JD, Partner, Baker Botts, former Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and founder of the DC Summer Externship Program at Haub Law was also recognized.



 Melvin Williams, PhD (Communication and Media Studies, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NYC) was recently appointed to the Broadcast Education Association Publications Committee. The three-year committee term, appointed by BEA President Stacey Irwin, will oversee relevant issues pertaining to all BEA publications (e.g., open access, peer-reviewed, etc.), select journal editors, and supervise journal calls for the organization at-large.

Pace MSESP graduate student Emily Schmidt and Environmental Science undergraduate student Madelyn Garcia recently presented posters at the Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, VT. Madelyn's poster was titled “The Effects of Land Cover on Mesocarnivore Distribution in a Suburban Landscape” and was co-authored by Environmental Studies and Science faculty Matthew Aiello-Lammens, PhD (Environmental Studies and Science, PLV, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) and Michael Rubbo, PhD (Environmental Studies and Science, PLV, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences). Emily's poster was titled “Are human perceptions of the environment consistent with ecological data? A study of user’s opinions and water quality in the Pocantico River, Westchester County, NY” and was co-authored by Anne Toomey, PhD (Environmental Studies and Science, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) and Michael Rubbo, PhD. Emily's poster was awarded second place in the graduate student category at the conference.

Grant Proposal Clearance Form

Internal approval needs to be procured prior to any grant application submission. All signatures on the Grant Proposal Clearance Form (GPCF) will be accepted through Adobe sign. If you do not have an Adobe Sign, information on how to request an Adobe Sign account can be obtained at Adobe Sign Support.

To obtain the appropriate approval signatures through Adobe Sign, follow the instructions below and use the latest PDF version of the Grant Proposal Clearance Form.

• Download the latest Grant Proposal Clearance Form (PDF).
• Complete the form electronically and leave the signature fields empty. (All signatures will be obtained via Adobe Sign).
• As part of the clearance process, please make sure you have the project description/abstract and detailed budget in Excel Format available.
• Please email your completed Grant Proposal Clearance Form, abstract and budget to Elina Bloch.
• Once your clearance form is received, the Office of Research will review the form for complete accuracy. Once reviewed, Elina Bloch will send out the clearance form for signatures to the Principal Investigator, Chair, Dean and Associate Provost via Adobe Sign.
• Pay close attention to your inbox for an email from Adobe Sign (echosign). The email will provide instructions on how to digitally sign your Grant Proposal Clearance Form via Adobe Sign.
• Once the form is fully approved and signed a copy will be sent to you.

Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) Announcements

For the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year, the university-wide Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences is announcing the following two undergraduate research opportunities:

1)   Provost’s 2023-2024 Academic Year Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Program



Deadline: Thursday, August 31, 2023

This university-wide, academic-year research grant program is for undergraduate students entering their sophomore, junior, or senior year in September 2023. The program supports projects started in courses, or research and artistic settings that merit further independent development through sustained faculty mentoring and steady student work throughout the academic year. These grant awards will be made for the full academic year and will not support projects that fulfill academic course requirements for 2023-2024. Please share this information with your students.

Learn more and apply here

2). Undergraduate Research Assistantships Program 2023-2024 Academic Year funded by Federal Work Study (FWS)

Proposals will be accepted through September 11, 2023 for prioritized posting; applications will be accepted after that date until funds are depleted.   

The Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences launched a pilot undergraduate research assistantship program funded by federal work-study during the 2020-2021 academic year. The goal for 2023-2024 is to continue to increase both the number of faculty research assistantship positions and the pool of students eligible for these positions.

Successful expansion requires the following two essential elements:

1)   faculty proposals for assistantship positions, and

2)   student awareness that federal work-study awards can be used for faculty-mentored research assistantships. Students sometimes decline FWS awards in their financial aid packages and take more loans because they do not understand how they can earn FWS dollars.  

To advance this program expansion, propose a research assistantship position to support your scholarship or creative inquiry. To recruit qualified student applicants, please inform your students and majors about this research opportunity now so they can better understand the value of their federal work-study funds and how those funds can be earned serving as your research assistant!

Click here to propose your undergraduate research assistantship position

For questions contact:

Norma Quiridumbay, CURE Director of Operations at nquiridumbay@pace.edu



Maria Iacullo-Bird, PhD., Assistant Provost for Research at miacullobird@pace.edu

Prestigious Awards and Fellowships

Summer is an excellent time for students to lay the groundwork for their ongoing research. Some awards that fund research in the STEM fields, including the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship, have early-Fall deadlines. The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. GRFP seeks to broaden participation in science and engineering of underrepresented groups, including women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans. The five-year fellowship provides three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend of $37,000.

In addition, our campus deadline for the Fulbright Student Program is September 8^th. As you reflect on the students you have worked with during this academic year, please encourage high-achieving students to reach out Moira Egan at megan@pace.edu for assistance with all stages of the application.

Research@Pace will back in August.

We wish you a wonderful summer!

Stay connected: visit us at www.pace.edu/office-of-research