Erica Gollub, DrPH, MPH is a Professor in the Health Sciences Department, PLV (College of Health Professions). Her research focuses mainly on sexual and reproductive health; additional areas of inquiry include firearm violence, and Covid experiences of college students. Professor Gollub's recent articles have appeared in Lancet, Plos One and Contraception . She was interviewed this year as part of a Lancet tribute to the globally-renowned epidemiologist, Dr. Zena Stein, mentor and collaborator. Professor Gollub’s most recent paper was co-authored with Health Sciences alum Raven Vaughan ('21)—

"US women need the dapivirine ring, too: FDA as structural barrier to HIV prevention for women"  in AIDS Educ Prev 34.4 (August 2022). The commentary reviews data and critiques a recent FDA opinion on a new HIV prevention technology now approved and available in numerous global settings, but unavailable to US women.



Professor Gollub also presented her research at a panel of the American Public Health Association annual meeting (November 2022). Titled “Investigating race differences in female firearm-related intimate partner homicides using the National Violent Death Reporting System,” the study analyzes the relationship between state-specific firearm legislation targeting intimate partner violence (IPV), and Black vs.White female homicides by firearm. The analysis provides evidence of the critical importance of state-level legislation. Co-author Shirly Chen, BS, Health Sciences alum, was an awardee, with Professor Gollub, of the Provost’s Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research. Professor Gollub was recently awarded the Provost’s Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research Award again for her work with Lauren T. Pizzella, "Connections Between Social Media Use, Vaccination Attitudes and Mental Health Among Pace Undergraduates During the COVID Pandemic."

Satish Kolluri, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, NYC (Dyson College of Arts and Sciences). He is presently working on an English translation project of a book written in the Sanskrit-derived south Indian language of Telugu by renowned Indian Classical Dance Guru of Kuchipudi style, Dr. Uma Rama Rao (also Prof. Kolluri’s late mother) that explores the essence and structure of the literary genre of “Yakshagana Prabandha” traditions through the lens of literature, history, poetry, music, dance-drama, and folk and tribal arts.

Professor Kolluri is also working on a paper that argues for the inclusion of Consciousness Studies in the liberal arts curriculum in light of the ever-growing interdisciplinary interest in ‘consciousness’ as an object of study and research. He recently published an article (with Joseph Lee, PhD) titled “An Inter-Asian Perspective on China’s Rise and Power Shifts in Asia” in Social Transformations in Chinese Societies (16:2, 2021) as well as several book chapters including “Globalizing the American Classroom with Bollywood and Hong Kong Cinemas” (with Joseph Lee) in Internatinalization in Action: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion in the Globalized Classroom and “Situating Hong Kong and Bollywood in the Global" in Hong Kong and Bollywood Cinemas: Globalization of Asian Cinemas” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Prof. Kolluri is currently curating and moderating the New York Indian Film Festival, which he has being doing annually since 2003. The Festival’s schedule is available here.

Nancy Krucher, PhD (Biology, PLV, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) received a $400,241 grant from the NIH for her study, ‘Targeting ATP-citrate lyase (ACLY) to overcome therapy resistance in breast cancer and melanoma.” Cancer is a major health concern in our country and throughout the world. Currently the development of cancer treatments includes identifying and targeting specific mutations or abnormalities in tumor cells. These targeted therapies have exhibited a great deal of success in some cancer types. Unfortunately, while targeted therapies usually work for a few months or a few years, cancer cells often develop resistance to these agents. In this project, Professor Krucher and Pace students will investigate their hypothesis that targeting ATP-citrate lyase with newly developed inhibitors bempedoic acid and NDI-091143 will reverse resistance in breast cancer treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors and in melanoma treated with B-Raf inhibitors. These studies may inform the development of combination regimens for the treatment of cancer.

Prestigious 2022 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy Award was presented to Brazilian Environmentalist Paulo de Bessa Antunes,PhD, an environmental scholar and leading professor of environmental law at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and head of the Environmental Practice of Campos Mello Advogados (Brazil). This year’s award highlighted the Amazonian crisis and the rule of law in Brazil. Professor Bessa is considered one of the founders of Brazilian environmental law. He began his career as a member of the Federal Prosecutor's Office and was the first coordinator of the defense of the environment in the State of Rio de Janeiro. During his three decades in the Federal Public Prosecution Service, he used fledgling environmental laws and theories to file and win several seminal lawsuits to protect the environment. Professor Bessa is also a highly respected legal practitioner and a leading scholar of Brazilian environmental law, having authored more than 280 publications in the fields of environmental law, justice, and human rights.

Pace University President Marvin Krislov, Christian Haub, Paulo de Bessa Antunes, 2022 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy Laureate, Anna-Sophia Haub, Horace Anderson, Dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

Environmental Scholar James R. May, JD, will return to the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University as a Haub Visiting Scholar. Professor May is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Founder of the Global Environmental Rights Institute, and co-Founder of the Dignity Rights Institute at Widener University Delaware Law School. May founded the Widener Sustainability Initiative as the University's first Chief Sustainability Officer. May is a former federal civil litigator and appellate advocate, the founder of several award-winning public interest programs, and the author or editor of 12 books and more than one hundred book chapters and articles. He has received numerous awards, and is an inductee of Phi Kappa Phi, the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and the American Bar Foundation. May shares a long history with Haub Law as he previously served as a Haub Visiting Scholar in 2020 and more recently, in spring of 2022, May joined the environmental law faculty as a visiting professor. He is an alumnus of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he was the Feldshuh Fellow and received his LLM in Environmental Law in 1991 graduating first in his class. He received his JD (National Environmental Law Moot Court Champion) and BS in Mechanical Engineering (Bowman Scholar) from the University of Kansas. 

Barbara Ballan, LLB has been named the inaugural LLM Sustainable Business Law Fellow of Haub Law’s newly launched Sustainable Business Law Hub. Additionally, an expert in sustainable business law, Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives, Jason Czarnezki, JD, who joined the Haub Law faculty in 2013, was named as the inaugural Faculty Director of the Sustainable Business Law Hub. The Sustainable Business Law Hub serves as an incubator space, student-training program, research endeavor, and think tank devoted to addressing global sustainability challenges through policy and research projects, relationships with the business community, and capacity building in private environmental governance.

Kyomi Gregory, PhD (Communication Studies and Disorders, NYC, College of Health Professions), co-authored a book chapter titled "Use of linguistic theory to inform clinical practice for children with Developmental Language Disorder within African American English" in Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology. The chapter discusses how linguistic theory both informs and provides a map to identify a child’s strengths and weaknesses not readily observed with traditional measures of language. This chapter demonstrates how the use of linguistic theory has helped us learn about the strengths and weaknesses of childhood Developmental Language Disorder within African American English (AAE).

Professor Gregory also participated on a panel, CITY OF SCIENCE: How We Learn Language from Birth Through Adulthood, for CUNY Graduate Center.

Melvin Williams, PhD (Communication and Media Studies, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) is co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media that focuses on Black radio. Details are available here.

Center Spotlight

The Center for Community Action and Research (CCAR) supports the University’s commitment to educating for active community participation and social responsibility.  This includes:

• Curricular and co-curricular experiential experiences for students with civic and service focus
• Faculty and course development support for Civic Engagement and Public Value courses
• Assistance with connecting to nonprofit partners
• Recognition of those who do civic and community work
• Nonpartisan voter education, registration and empowerment
• Student employment opportunities
• Maintain national partnerships committed to civic engagement and community partnerships including Project Pericles, Multiplying for Good, and the Andrew Goodman foundation.

Read the 25 Years and Counting article on CCAR

CCAR has locations on both in Westchester and New York.  For more information please check out www.pace.edu/ccar or reach out to Heather Novak, Director, hnovak@pace.edu or Erin Mysogland, Assistant Director, emysogland@pace.edu

NSF’s Research.gov implementation

The NSF FastLane website (fastlane.nsf.gov) is scheduled to be removed as a submission option for all NSF funding opportunities. NSF programs will stop accepting proposals via FastLane website after January 27. Preparation and submission of proposals will be migrated from FastLane to Research.gov.

See additional details here.

For tutorials and guidance on how to use Research.gov, please visit the Research.gov proposal preparation and submission resources site.

Opportunities for Faculty

Submit your faculty-mentored scholarly research or artistic project for consideration for the Society of Fellows Annual Meeting! The Annual Meeting is a one-day student research conference at which students present their work to peers, faculty, family, friends, and alumni. Learn more and apply. Submission deadline: February 1, 2023.

Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE)

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REUs) Information Session



January 9, 2023 – 12:00pm-1:00pm



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