Julia Eisenberg, PhD (Lubin School of Business) is an Associate Professor and Human Resources Programs Chair in the Department of Management and Management Science. Professor Eisenberg has recently been awarded the EAM Outstanding Reviewer Award (2021) and the AOM Careers Division 2019 Best International Paper Award. Her recent publications include “Multicultural virtual team performance: The impact of media choice and language diversity” in Small Group Research (2021), “Collaborating across distance: Virtual team configurations and psychological effects on team interactions” in Human Resource Management Review (2019), and “Team dispersion and performance: The role of team communication and transformational leadership” in Small Group Research (2019). This month, Professor Eisenberg presented her research at the EAM conference and, together with Ibraiz Tarique, PhD, a paper at the CIHRM conference. In August, Professor Eisenberg will present a paper at the AOM conference.

Professor Eisenberg is currently collaborating on multiple research projects. She is the PI on a large cross disciplinary multi-year global teams project with collaborators from three universities. They study globally distributed team dynamics using data from a Multinational Corporation. She is also the PI on a collaborative project that examines virtual and global work related dynamics in three companies. Based on data from this project, a few papers have already been presented at conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals and two are currently under review. In a separate research stream, together with Theresa Lant, PhD (Management and Management Science, Lubin School of Business), Professor Eisenberg has recently received the Scholarly Research grant to collect data and study the implications of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in interdisciplinary teams. Other research projects she is contributing to include examining leadership in student teams and the effects of top management team dynamics on company outcomes.

David Cassuto, PhD, JD is a Professor of Law (Elisabeth Haub School of Law) and the Director of the Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE). Professor Cassuto has published numerous articles and op-eds on environmental and animal law-related issues including “Suffering Matters: NEPA, Animals, and the Duty to Disclose” University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2020 and “You Don't Need Lungs to Suffer: Fish Suffering in the Age of Climate Change with a Call for Regulatory Reform” CJCCL 5 (2019). Both of those recent articles, which were co-written with students, are available here. One of his recent  op-eds was co-written with the Director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, on whose board Professor Cassuto served for many years and where he also served as Senior Counsel for International Affairs. He is now finishing an article with a student, tentatively titled “Other Pandemic Casualties,” which looks at the animal victims of the zoonotic cycle, as well as another piece co-authored with Professor Michael Mushlin (Elisabeth Haub School of Law) about the impacts and injustice of solitary confinement on both humans and nonhumans. Professor Cassuto is a visiting professor at several Brazilian law schools and Williams College, and Senior International Counsel for the Beyond Institute, a Brazilian NGO

focused on capacity-building and bi-lateral environmental initiatives. Professor Cassuto is also counsel to Fair Start, an NGO focused on sustainable family planning.

Anthony Mancini, PhD (Psychology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, PLV) received an NIH grant in the amount of $440,632 over 4 years for his study: Social Affiliation, Social Capital, and Longitudinal Adaptation to COVID-19 Economic Stress. This NIH grant is from the Support for Competitive Research Program (SCORE) for which Pace became eligible in 2020. Professor Mancini’s project argues that lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have had profound social and economic consequences. There is a critical need to better understand long-term individual adaptation to the economic consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns in the context of broader features of the social environment. Policy, clinical intervention, and community-level activities can be informed by this understanding. Using a quasi-experimental multi-level longitudinal design, this project will examine the interplay of broader social-contextual factors and individual social behaviors in response to COVID-19-related economic stress.

Miguel Mosteiro, PhD (Computer Science, Seidenberg School of CSIS, NY), in collaboration with Pace students and an international scholar, published "Information Dissemination in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks under the Weighted-TIM Framework" at Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science 901.12 (January 2022). The researchers study a communication network model with applications to Distributed Systems and Internet of Things systems. It has been shown that the core challenge to disseminate information in such environment lies on the communication between contiguous network layers. Thus, they focused on minimizing the time needed for a set of receivers to get a message held by a set of transmitters, under a comprehensive Weighted Topological Interference Management (W-TIM) framework. Their protocols are based on a combinatorial object related to group testing non-adaptive algorithms and superimposed codes. The importance of W-TIM is highlighted by the striking improvement in performance shown by our simulations in a real-world network deployment area. This research was developed in collaboration with Georgia Cyber Center scholar Dariusz Kowalski and Pace students Lu Dong and Harshita Kudaravalli. Professor Mosteiro has also been invited to the editorial board of the prestigious Oxford - The Computer Journal, which he has joined. This month, he will be invited speaker at the 10th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms 2020-2022, where he will be presenting a comprehensive overview of my work on Dynamic Networks.

Michael Tursi, PhD, LMHC (Psychology Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, PLV) published "Managing threats: A grounded theory of counseling engagement in clients with experiential avoidance" in the Journal of Counseling and Development (Dec. 2021), the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association. The article was co-authored by Craig Sellers, PhD, and Andre Marquis, PhD of the University of Rochester and explored counseling engagement in clients with strong tendencies to avoid aversive emotion. Although experiential avoidance is well-researched, the authors believe that this was the first qualitative study of the concept as it relates to counseling.

Research form Aditi Paul’s, PhD (Communication Studies, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NY) newly released book The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture was quoted in The Washington Post. Professor Paul was also quoted in two media outlets, Buzzfeed, for her expertise in online dating and in Well+Good for her expertise in interpersonal communication.

Building on her 2020 article on food supply chain shocks, “Why farmers are dumping milk down the drain and letting produce rot in field,” The Conversation (April 2020), E. Melanie DuPuis, PhD (Environmental Studies and Sciences, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, PLV), along with her colleagues, decided to explore the ways in which local food systems were responding to the supply chain shocks of the pandemic. A number of articles argued that people were turning to local food systems as a way to adapt to empty store shelves. This research involved single case studies in particular places. This study, in contrast, explored whether a "local turn" occurred nationally, using social media data. The authors analyzed Google Trends and Twitter data. While there was a temporary rise in searches for local food on Google, they found little evidence of a turn to local food systems on Twitter. However, they did find very strong support for local restaurants on Twitter. The authors also found a weak but positive relationship between local food systems infrastructure and a turn to local food systems on Twitter. These findings were published in an article titled “Food Supply Chain Shocks and the Pivot Toward Local: Lessons From the Global Pandemic” in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (April. 2022).

Susanne O'Callaghan CPA, PhD (Accounting, Lubin School of Business, NY) published "CPAs Role in Food Relief Organizations After COVID 19" in the CPA Journal (March - April 2022). The article is a result of research project assigned to graduate accounting students during the fall of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented them from volunteering at a food pantry which was part of the course requirements to help them better understand the operational workings of a not-for-profit organization as they studied external financial reporting. Instead, Professor O’Callaghan and her students conducted research on what food pantries were experiencing during the pandemic. This article considers the role CPAs take in nongovernmental nonprofit organizations and explores the opportunities for CPAs to help nonprofit food relief organizations face the challenges presented by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. These nonprofits have a significant economic and social importance to both the economy and society; but the pandemic has made it difficult for them to provide services they had provided in the past.

New Pace University Human Subjects Research Policies and Procedures

The Office of Research has a new set of policies and procedures for the Pace University Human Research Protection Program.  The new policies and procedures document is available here.

These new policies and procedures were reviewed by a faculty committee led by the IRB Co-Chairs, Christopher Godfrey, PhD (Psychology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) and Sharon Wexler, PhD (College of Health Professions), and govern all aspects of Human Subjects research at Pace University.

A new website for our Human Research Protection Program will be forthcoming.

Any questions about the new policies and procedures should be directed to Susan DeMocker (sdemocker@pace.edu), Associate Director of Research Protections, or Christine Wallace (cwallace3@pace.edu), IRB Administrator.

Opportunities for Faculty and Students

Pace students and faculty now have institutional access to CARMA (Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis),  an interdisciplinary consortium to provide Research Methods Education, which can help to facilitate development of research related skills for Pace students and faculty. Pace community members can register on the website to receive access. Institutional access is available for a year thanks to a grant from the Lubin Dean's Office procured by Professor Julia Eisenberg, who is spearheading this initiative.

Call for Papers Transactions Volume 23

Transactions, the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal of the Society of Fellows of Dyson College is seeking undergraduate research papers and works of creative expression for publication. The Society of Fellows, the premier honors association of Dyson College, is dedicated to the promotion of scholarship across the fields of the arts and sciences. The journal provides an opportunity for the dissemination of important research and artistic projects. Work from all disciplines is encouraged. Each submission will be independently assessed and then considered for inclusion by the faculty editors.

All completed papers and creative works submitted for the recent Annual Meeting held on Saturday, March 26, 2022 will be considered for publication in Transactions. Students are urged to engage in a revision process with their faculty sponsors and resubmit a revised paper or creative work by the deadline of May 31, 2022.

See the full announcement here.

If you have questions about the fellows or the form, please contact Judi Pajo, PhD, by email, jpajo@pace.edu, or by phone, (212) 346-1289. Learn more at www.pace.edu/dyson/sof

The university-wide Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Days were held on the NYC Campus on May 5 and on the PLV campus on May 6 for the first time since May 2019. Excitement was pervasive as 68 students in NYC and 25 students in PLV presented to almost 100 faculty, staff, and guests. In NYC the national award-winning Federal Reserve and Fiscal Team members discussed how “research is beautiful” as the basis of their demanding co-curricular projects that exemplify teamwork, commitment, and sustained faculty mentoring. The poster sessions on both campuses showcased research projects from across the five schools and colleges, and students had the opportunity both to discuss their research in depth with individual visitors and present project summaries to the entire poster audience. NYC also offered research panels featuring thematically linked projects that included gaming, grassroots activism, environmental issues, and history and social justice, and Project Studio and Museum Studies artistic projects in the Art Gallery. Kudos to our student researchers and artists and dedicated faculty mentors! The program for each event can be accessed here.

Provost’s 2022-2023 Academic Year Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Program

Deadline: August 31, 2022

This university-wide, academic-year research grant program is for undergraduate students entering their sophomore, junior, or senior year in September 2022. 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 requirements for enrolled courses. Please share this information with your students.

Learn more and apply here

 Undergraduate Research Assistantships Program 2022-2023

Academic Year funded by Federal Work Study (FWS)

Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through September 12, 2022

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 2022-2023 is to increase both the number of faculty research assistantship positions and the pool of students eligible for these positions. However, 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 campus 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 proposed program expansion, propose a research assistantship position to support your research! 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 more information contact Maria Iacullo-Bird, PhD, Assistant Provost for Research,  miacullobird@pace.edu.

The application for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is now open! The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. ​The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Grant lengths and dates vary by country. 

To be eligible for a Fulbright:

• Applicants must be citizens or nationals of the United States of America at the time of application. Permanent residents are not eligible. 
• Applicants must have a conferred bachelor's degree or equivalent before the start of the grant. 
• Applicants must meet the language requirements of the award to which they are applying and demonstrate sufficient competency to complete their project and adjust to life in the host country.

If you know of one or more students (current juniors, seniors, and alumni) who would be great candidates for the Fulbright, please reach out to Maria Iacullo-Bird, PhD, at miacullobird@pace.edu, by or before Friday, July 22, 2022. 

The Office of Research Prestigious Fellowships and Awards website has a detailed lists of awards and opportunities, with application information, for undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni. Please refer to this site for deadlines, FAQs, and general fellowships information.



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