Marie Lourdes Charles, EdD, RN-BC (Undergraduate Nursing Lienhard School of Nursing, College of Health Professions, NYC), currently, the Vice-President of Health Education Action League for Haiti (HEAL-Haiti) conducted a short nurse residency program in Pignon, Haiti in May 2022. While Professor Charles and her team were in Haiti, Joy Henderson, PhD, RN and Lisette Dorfman, PhD, RN-BC, LSN, taught Maternal Child Health and Psychiatry via Zoom for the program whose goal was to prepare new graduates for the state exam and upgrade their nursing skills. Professor Charles also recently completed her study entitled “Attitudes of Registered Nurses caring for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in an Acute Care Setting in collaboration with New York Presbyterian Queens.” In June 2022, the findings were presented at the One Voice Conference sponsored by the American Academy of Developmental Dentistry and Medicine and published in the Scirea Journal of Clinical Medicine (July, 20220). Professor Charles and colleagues also organized the NIH/AACN grant-funded All of Us educational event to educate the Pace community on precision medicine and research participation. In recognition of her community activities, she was recognized with the ACHNE Advancing Health Equity Award from the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators in June 2022 and the Caribbean Life Impact Award in July 2022.

Roy Girasa, JD., PhD (Lubin School of Business) is Distinguished Professor of legal studies in the Department of Legal Studies and Taxation (PLV). He taught at Pace since 1980 and has authored 135 articles, 7 books as well as appeared in numerous podcasts and TV programs. Professor Girasa’s latest book, Regulation of Innovative Technologies: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing was published in June 2022 (Palgrave Macmillan). He is currently working on a second edition of Regulation of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies: National and International Perspectives, which is selling globally and which was translated into the Korean language. This edition will feature additions to the text of “Central Bank Digital Currencies, Stablecoins, and Non-Fungible Tokens,” discussing how quantum computing will affect digital currencies, and other latest technological occurrences, all from a regulatory, legal perspective. Professor Girasa’s article: “Stablecoins: Latest Disruption to Traditional Banking” was published the International In-house Counsel Journal (Autumn 2021). He was also featured in multiple languages on a podcast by Pymnts.com. concerning artificial intelligence facial recognition programs and use. In addition, his article with Dr. Emilio Collar on “Quantum Computing: The Second Quantum Revolution Transformation and How Business is Conducted,” was published in the European Business Review (Sept-Oct. 2021). Professor Girasa has taught MBA courses in Shanghai and in Germany, and was president of four international conferences in Tunisia. He turned 85 this July.

Center Spotlight

The Pace Women’s Justice Center (PWJC) provides free legal services to over 3,800 victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse, as well as conducts or participates in over 140 training and outreach events. Serving Westchester and Putnam Counties, PWJC’s mission is to pursue justice for victims and prevent abuse through quality legal services, community partnerships, education, and awareness.

PWJC’s team of staff attorneys, volunteers, and community partners assist women in and out of the courtroom, helping them to obtain orders of protection, custody of their children, child support and divorces. Victims of interpersonal violence have many needs arising from the abuse, and PWJC believes that clients do better in the long term if they are treated holistically. Thus, PWJC connects women and the elderly with a broad range of social services such as shelter, medical care, counseling, and immigration assistance, in order to help them find a pathway to safety.

Nigel Yarlett, PhD (Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Physical Sciences, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NYC) received a grant in the among of $40k from the Alternatives Research and Development Foundation (ARDF) for his project “Development of an in vitro culture system for Cryptosporidium hominis using a hollow fiber bioreactor.”

Pauline Mosley, PhD (Information Technology West, Seidenberg School of CSIS, PLV), and Co-PI Li-Chiou Chen, PhD  (Information Technology West, Seidenberg School of CSIS, NYC/PLV) were awarded two NSA grants: 2022 GenCyber Capacity Building High School Students in the amount of $44,417 and a $77k grant for the 2022 GenCyber Summer Workshop for High School Students.

Eric Brenner, PhD (Biology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NYC) was asked to identity the world’s largest thistle for the Guinness Book of World Records. The entry is available here.

Bennett L. Gershman, JD (Distinguished Professor, Elisabeth Haub School of Law) has been named a 2022 recipient of the New York Law Journal Lifetime Achievement Award. The prestigious award is a tribute to esteemed law professionals who have made a continuous impact on the legal community and the practice of law over an entire career. He will be honored the New York Legal Awards this fall.

Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer, JD (Luk-Cummings Family Faculty Scholar, Elisaneth Haub School of Law) is the host of a newly launched podcast, "Legal Tenzer: Casual Conversations on Noteworthy Legal Topics". Created in collaboration with West Academic, "Legal Tenzer," will serve as a platform for casual conversations on timely legal issues between Professor Tenzer and prominent legal scholars and practitioners.  

Melanie LaRosa, MFA (Media, Communications, and the Visual Arts, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, PLV) recently published two Op-Eds. These are the early results of the OpEd project/YPCCC (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication) Fellowship. “SCOTUS Can’t Stop the Climate Movement: We should realize that the people of the United States have power” was co-authored piece by several OpEd Fellows for The Progressive, about the recent Supreme Court decision restricting EPA authority. The second Op-Ed, entitled “Changing Power Sources Starts With Changing Minds,” was published in World War Zero, a magazine sponsored by John Kerry and partnered with the American Security Project, a non-partisan think tank of high ranking government officials including many from the military. 

Kyomi Gregory, PhD (Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Health Professions, NYC) was interviewed by Barbara Glickstein a public health nurse/digital media strategist for a show, HealthCetera on public radio on Wednesday 6/1 at 2:05 pm. The interview is available here.

Melvin Williams, PhD (Communication and Media Studies, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NYC) was accepted to The Council of Independent Colleges and Yale University Legacies of Slavery Seminar, which took place in June at Yale University. Legacies of American Slavery is an initiative of the Council of Independent Colleges, in cooperation with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center, Yale University.

Ramón Emilio Fernández, PhD (Mathematics, PLV) was selected for this year’s Lathisms calendar, which showcases the contributions of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians during Hispanic Heritage Month, and provides a biography and information on their research, teaching and service contributions.

Matthew Aiello-Lammens, PhD (Environmental Studies and Science, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, PLV) and Erika Crispo, PhD (Biology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NYC) along with colleagues from 12 peer institutions, are working on a grant from the US National Science Foundation to expand the BEDE (Biological and Environmental Data Education) Network. The goal is to establish a diverse, wide-reaching community of college instructors “trained in integrating data science skills across introductory biology and environmental science curricula.” The first annual meeting of the BEDE Network, organized by Professor Aiello-Lammens and Professor Crispo, took place on August 12-13, 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The main themes of the meeting are Inclusivity in Education and Bridging International Borders, with a focus on empowering educators to employ inclusive pedagogy and equitable teaching practices; communing scientist-educators from diverse backgrounds; and discussing perspectives and collaborating on multi-national efforts in data science education.

In August, the Hudson River Foundation Polgar Fellows presented their summer research, virtually on Zoom. Environmental Studies student and Polgar Fellow Gabrielle Robb presented her research titled: “Investigating the Distribution and Drivers of Invasive Trapa natans in the Hudson River Estuary with a Multi-Scaled Approach.” This study examines the spatio-temporal dynamics of invasive plant Trapa natans in the Hudson River Estuary with a multi-scaled approach, under the context of a warming climate and changing precipitation patterns. Gabrielle’s faculty mentor is Wei Fang, PhD (Biology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, NYC). The Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship program is a student research program of the Hudson River Foundation conducted in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Institutional Review Board(IRB) Update

The Office of Research launched a new IRB website. The website contains the HRPP Policies & Procedures, information about the new online platform for IRB submissions, the Pace University Research Review System (PURRS), as well as details about the IRB Office and services. 

Save the Date

Classroom Based Research Experiences Workshop

Monday, October 17, 12 p.m.-3 p.m.

Pace University is holding a workshop on October 17 for faculty winners of the CBRE award  to talk about their experiences with embedding their research into a classroom setting. The event, which takes place remotely using Zoom, will comprise of a keynote address by Sarah Brownwell, PhD, followed by short faculty presentations and a panel discussion. The event is for all faculty across disciplines.  

Register for this event

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Funding Opportunities Listservs

There are numerous listservs to which you can subscribe to receive electronic alerts from funding agencies, including: 

NIH 

NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts – Tracks the release of new funding opportunity announcements and notices that are published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Subscribe to the NIH Guide of Grants and Contracts

ERA Information Listserv-Listserv for updates on the NIH Electronic Submission program and eRA Commons. Subcribe to the eRA-Information-L

NIH Extramural Nexus- A bimonthly update from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) on grants policies and activities. Subscribe to the Extramural Nexus listserv

For previous issues, see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/nexus.htm

NSF

NSF Listserv- Communications can be customized based on specific research interests. Subscribe for the NSF Listserv

Grants.gov

Grants.gov– A resource for searching all federal funding opportunities including NIH, DOD, NSF. Subscribe to Grants.Gov Listserv

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

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 during the academic year. These grant awards will be made for the full academic year and will not support projects that fulfill academic course requirements. Please share this information with your students.

Learn more and apply here

Deadline: August 31, 2022

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 questions and additional information, please contact Maria T. Iacullo-Bird, PhD,

Assistant Provost for Research.

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