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Research @ Pace
A newsletter highlighting faculty research & scholarship
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 |  | Kelley Kreitz, PhD (English, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in Latina/o Studies; she also directs the university's digital humanities center, Babble, Lab and serves in the Provost’s Office as the director of the university’s experiential learning initiative. Her research on print and digital cultures of the Americas has appeared in American Literary History, American Periodicals, English Language Notes, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and in her digital mapping project on NYC’s nineteenth-century Spanish-language press, C19LatinoNYC.org. This past July, she presented her research as visiting faculty member at the University of Tampa’s NEH Summer Institute on José Martí and nineteenth-century Cuban print culture in Florida. She was also co-PI of the 2021 NEH-funded working group, “Pursuing the Potential of Digital Mapping in Latinx Studies” and a co-director of the 2020 NEH Summer Institute, “City of Print” on NYC print history. She is an advisory board member of the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.
Professor Kreitz’s book, Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture and the Literary Imagination in the Age of Electricity, is under contract with NYU Press. She has a forthcoming peer-reviewed article, “Counter Mapping the Archival Record: Reflections on Recovering NYC’s Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Press” in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (spring 2024), and a forthcoming chapter, “Modernism’s Workshops: Printing Latinx Literary Modernities in NYC,” in Latinx Literature in Transition, volume 2, edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler (Cambridge UP, 2024).
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April M. Bartlett, MFA is an Emmy award winning versatile visual artist specializing in storytelling and is inspired by the limitless potential of an undefined space. Professor Bartlett is the Program Head of the Production and Design Program at Sands College of Performing Arts. She is a production and set designer, production coordinator, producer, educator, artist, and maker. Professor Bartlett empowers students to be multidisciplinary collaborators. She promotes experimentation and risk-taking in art and storytelling and is thrilled to be supporting the next generation of fearless, dynamic artists and storytellers.
Professor Bartlett received a Peabody Award in 2022 for excellence in storytelling that reflects social issues and emerging voices. April was the Art Director for NBC Universal’s The Today Show for 15 years (2007-2022). She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award (2011) for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and won for Best Morning Show (2019/2020) for her collaborative design work. Select screen credits: The Today Show (NBC), OneIronaut (The Outer Loop Theater Company- international), The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC), Christmas in Rockefeller Center Gwen Stefani (Peacock, NBC) and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS).
“Set and Story- April Bartlett- The Art of Storytelling” was published the Pace Magazine this July, along with the Pace People Highlight Reel. Professor Barlett’s website is available here.
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Michael Mushlin, JD (Elisabeth Haub School of Law) published 2023/24 Supplement to Rights of Prisoners (5th ed.). Professor Mushlin thanks his Research Assistants, Vanessa Garcia and Sabrina Rehfeld, for their support on the project. Rights of Prisoners provides practitioners, judges, and corrections officials with a balanced and comprehensive treatment of prisoners' rights issues. It covers the law affecting prisoners and their rights, and the latest developments resulting from the increase in prison litigation. This title discusses civil disabilities, AIDS, drugs, environmental and toxic tort law, and “Son of Sam” laws. Additionally, it provides in-depth analysis of related Supreme Court decisions, with special attention paid to the application of First, Fourth, and Eighth Amendment rights as applied to corrections facilities. Further, topics covered are Basic entitlements, Equal protection clause, Prison labor, Control in prison, Transfers, Detainers, Prisoners in the community, Access to courts, Access to the media, and more.
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This October, Anna Shostya, PhD (Economics, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences), graduate student Brandon Diaz, and four undergraduate students (Olenka Besaga, Anastasia Khanukov, Zhenya Naydonov, and Viktoriia Yevtushenko) attended a virtual conference organized by V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, in one of the most destroyed (by Russian shelling) cities in Ukraine, Kharkiv. The international conference, where Professor Shostya was invited to talk on the role of human capital in the sustainable economic recovery, was devoted to the problems and prospects of ensuring sustainable socio-economic development of territories affected by the war. Pace students, most of whom of Ukrainian descent or citizenship, had a rare opportunity to participate in a practical discussion that aimed at the formulation of the recovery strategies for the torn-by-war Ukrainian labor markets and education system.
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 | | Mary Kaltenberg, PhD (Economics, NYS, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) presented new research on the impact of maternity leave on female inventor productivity and exit patterns “Maternity Policy’s Impact on Invention” in Brazil for the Center for Research on Complexity, Development, and Inequality (NECODE, acronym in Portuguese). Female invention participation has steadily grown in the US over the past few decades, but the gender innovation gap remains substantial. This growth in participation corresponds with an overall increase of female labor force participation and changes in maternity leave policies. Using inventor data from patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office, the study paper seeks to evaluate the impact of maternity leave polities in innovation related jobs in two particular perspectives, exit decisions and productivity of female inventors of child-bearing age. The findings suggest that maternity leave policies promote retention of female inventors, but these policies have little impact on increasing productivity.
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| |  | Timothy Waligore, PhD (Economics, History, and Political Science, PLV, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) published a book chapter entitled “Remedying Cosmopolitan Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples, Kant, and Historical Injustice,” in The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory, vol. 1, edited by Howard Williams, David Boucher, Peter Sutch, and David Reidy (Palgrave, 2023). In Perpetual Peace and The Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant condemns colonialism and forced settlement on the lands of Indigenous peoples as violations of the “cosmopolitan right” to hospitality. Cosmopolitan right literally means “the right of the world citizen,” which refers to peoples and individuals and their interactions across a globe they share. What should happen generations after the first violations of cosmopolitan right occur? Should historical and ongoing injustice done to Indigenous peoples be remedied? This chapter examines how Kantian cosmopolitan right (and Kantian political and legal theory more broadly) might or might not support Indigenous peoples’ struggles for land, territory, and sovereignty. Professor Waligore argues that past and persisting cosmopolitan wrongs can change what counts as the appropriate framework for redressing injustice. The unjust history of how parties came to be side-by-side can mean that the spirit of cosmopolitan right—emphasizing Indigenous peoples’ self-determination and peoplehood—persists. Professor Waligore argues against those who say Indigenous claims should be evaluated in domestic terms—as claims between individual citizens of a state without reference to status as citizens of the world. This Kantian approach also differs from backward-looking “libertarian” approaches to state-to-state reparations and from forward-looking egalitarian theories of “cosmopolitan global justice.” He concludes by considering three important objections to using Kantian analysis.
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An article entitled “Unlocking the Tiny Secrets to Grow the World’s Largest Flowers” was published in BotanyOne, a blog run by the Annals of Botany Company, which also publishes three journals: the Annals of Botany, AoB PLANTS, and in silico Plants. The article is based on the interview Jeanmaire Molina, PhD (Biology, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) had with Botany One. Unlike most plants, Rafflesia is an obligate parasite living within the woody tissues of its sole host, the tropical vine Tetrastigma, only emerging to produce the largest flowers in the world that reek of rotting flesh! Its spectacular size and rarity make it an icon of pop culture inspiring Netflix’s Demogorgon and Pokemon’s Vileplume. However, it has yet to be successfully grown in botanic gardens. Professor Molina hopes to change this, beginning a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for her research: “If Lady Gaga could wear a flower, it'd be Rafflesia.” Yet, it was not Gaga but the federal garden in DC, the US Botanic Garden, who took notice, beginning a partnership that aspires to grow a giant Philippine Rafflesia in DC to promote conservation awareness of these enigmatic rare plants. To better understand its seed genetics, Professor Molina and collaborators produced the first Rafflesia seed transcriptome and compared it with those of other plants. Rafflesia seed genetics was remarkably similar to those of other plant species, though with some exceptions, including multiple pilfered genes from its host and evidence of convergent evolution among the parasitic plants. It is hoped that this study brings us closer to a reality in which botanic gardens all over the world grow Rafflesia for conservation, while increasing public awareness and appreciation of an evolutionary marvel—the world's largest flower. |  | |
Professor Molina and her research team during fieldwork at Miagao, Philippines, in January 2023. Photo by Jeanmaire Molina. | |
Perl Egendorf, PhD (Environmental Studies, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) was invited to speak at Indiana University, Indianapolis in the Department of Earth Sciences. Her talk was entitled "Constructing Just Soils: Developing an Environmental Justice Systems Approach for Participatory Urban Agriculture Research." | |
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The Grants.gov web interface has been updated to provide a more intuitive and responsive user experience. This is the first step in a series of upcoming improvements. You can learn more by checking the latest blog post, which outlines some of the news features and upcoming updates. Please update any bookmarks or hyperlinks you may use to access Grants.gov pages.
Additional Grants.gov resources:
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Biosketch
NSF has partnered with the National Institutes of Health to use SciENcv: Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae as the NSF-approved format for use in preparation of the biographical sketch section of an NSF proposal. Adoption of a single, common researcher profile system for federal grants reduces administrative burden for researchers.
Proposers must use SciENcv to prepare their biographical sketches for proposals to NSF.
SciENcv will produce an NSF-compliant PDF version of the biographical sketch. Proposers must save this document and submit it as part of their proposal via Research.gov or Grants.gov.
What to include in your biographical sketch
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Current and Pending Support
NSF requires information on all current and pending support for ongoing projects and proposals. This document contains a list of an individual's proposed and active projects and sources of support. It is used by NSF to assess:
- The capacity of the individual to carry out the proposed research
- Any potential scientific and budgetary overlap or duplication across projects.
- The potential the individual is overcommitting themselves with the proposed project.
What to include in the Current and Pending Support document
Proposers must use SciENcv to prepare their Current and Pending (Other) Support information for proposals to NSF.
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For questions contact:
Eric Torres, Director, Sponsored Research at etorres@pace.edu
Elina Bloch, PhD., Assistant Director, Sponsored Research at ebloch@pace.edu
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Transformative Civic Engagement Inside and Outside the Classroom
Join the Center for Community Action and Research at Dyson College and the Pace Experiential Learning Networking at a half-day symposium. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for Wellbeing and the Front Yard program at Lubin. This symposium will be taking place on Friday, December 1 on the NYC Campus from 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. This symposium is designed to foster conversation about civic engagement as practiced by members of the Pace community, particularly within the Civic Engagement (CE) requirement of the core curriculum. Speakers will include community members as well as Pace students, staff, faculty and alumni and the symposium will include presentations, panel discussions, and conversation among participants. All are welcome to attend!
Learn more and register here: www.pace.edu/CESymposium
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Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) Announcements | |
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Fall 2023 Student Undergraduate Research Webinar Series
Tuesday common hour – 3:25 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
Wednesday common hour – 12:10p.m.-1:10 p.m.
Maria Iacullo-Bird, PhD, Assistant Provost for Research
Applying for a Summer 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Tuesday, 12/12/23 and Wednesday, 12/13/23
Register in advance for Tuesday’s meeting
Register in advance for Wednesday’s meeting
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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The Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences is organizing a Pace student team to attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2024 that will take place April 8-10, 2024 in Long Beach, CA. The deadline for student proposals is December 8, 2023.
The NCUR submissions and event site can be accessed here.
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SAVE THE DATE: Spring 2024
Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Days
Undergraduate Research Day in the New York City Campus – Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Undergraduate Research Day in the Pleasantville Campus – Friday, April 26, 2024
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Prestigious Awards and Fellowships | |
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The Office of Prestigious Awards is happy to provide support to students both in applying for and researching potential fellowship opportunities. A number of major awards have January deadlines. The campus deadline for the Goldwater Scholarship, awarded to sophomores or juniors interested in STEM research careers, is Friday, January 5. The campus deadline for the
Truman Scholarship, which is awarded to juniors committed to public service, is Wednesday, January 17. Students interested in these opportunities should contact Moira Egan, PhD, Director of Prestigious Awards and Graduate Fellowships, at megan@pace.edu.
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