Press Room

The Pace Chronicle, the student newspaper for the Pleasantville/Briarcliff Manor campuses of Pace University, has been awarded First Place by the New York Press Association (NYPA) for Best Feature Story as part of the NYPA annual Best College Newspaper Excellence Awards.

Art Daily ran the press release on Pace art professor Will Pappenheimer’s recent grant award to explore the apparent link of virtual objects with viewer response, via wearable devices designed to interpret the sensory input of the audience to control and create “augmented reality” objects and information.

Will Pappenheimer, associate professor of art at Pace University, and a founding member of the artist collective, Manifest.AR, have recently been awarded the ARtSENSE Commission at The Foundation for Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, England for their proposal entitled ‘Invisible ARtaffects.’

Market Watch, part of the Wall Street Journal’s digital network, ran a press release from Computerworld on the Global Information Technology Awards for individuals and organizations that use information technology to benefit society. Pace Professor Jean Coppola, from the Seidenberg School for Computer Science and Information Systems, was honored for her work teaching technology to older adults.

Two Pace students are heading to South Africa to showcase their Android app.

There are no fundraising walks for Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT or “sleeping sickness”) but a drug for this “orphan disease” has gone to clinical trial thanks in part to professor emeritus Cyrus Bacchi, PhD, and Nigel Yarlett, PhD, chair of chemistry and physical sciences in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University.

Pace University students Peter Franceschini, a computer science major, and John Robb, majoring in both art and communications, placed fourth at The Berkeley Mobile International Collaborative (BMIC) University Mobile Challenge in Barcelona, Spain, and have been invited to compete at the Mobile Health Challenge in Cape Town, South Africa in May.

The Daily Pleasantville ran a story on Pace’s swimming and diving teams which ranked in the top 10 in all of Division II in terms of grade point average for the fall 2011 semester. (Left: Pace’s Kevin Dickson and the other members of men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams performed well in the pool and in the classroom in the fall 2011 semester.)

Two Pace professors, Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick authors of Scripting Hitchcock (Illinois UP, 2011), are up for Edgar Awards.

The Pleasantville Patch reported, among other outlets, that Pace was named among the top online programs by US News & World Report.