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Dr. Jay Adlersberg interviewed Seidenberg professor Jean Coppola for WABC’s Eyewitness News on her work teaching technology to older adults. From the WABC TV website: The technology revolution is not just for kids. It’s for their parents and even their grandparents. In one local nursing home, residents are getting a taste of wider access to [...]

In the second article in two months in the LA Times, Professor Jean Coppola’s technology program for seniors is featured.
(Photo: Rosemary Nickola works on her computer with her dog, Delilah, on her lap in her New York apartment in February. At that time, Nickola was struggling with technology, but this week she earned a certificate after completing a computer course. Credit – Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / April 30, 2012.)

The Internet provides a seemingly unlimited supply of information and entertainment. While most people support both free flowing information and protection of intellectual property, bills in the House and Senate, commonly known as SOPA and PIPA, have become controversial leading to heated debate. Pace University will hold a panel discussion on April 30 at 5:00pm at One Pace Plaza in the Student Union with experts from both sides debating the issue.

Pace is one of 10 universities in the country that are putting its students in front of digital classes connected to the “Teach Live” laboratory at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Pace University’s School of Education is one of 10 campuses around the country using a program called TeachLivE in the classroom to train teachers. The Tribeca Trib ran a feature story on it with photos.

RIM is hosting its inaugural Future Developer Event at Pace University in New York City.

The Journal News ran an article on Suffern High School robotics team that won the Hudson Valley championship at Pace University in January.

The Los Angeles Times featured Pace’s “gerontechnology” program headed by computer science professor Jean Coppola on the same day that she was honored by Cerebral Palsy of Westchester which declared today “Jean Coppola Day” for the work she does teaching technology to older adults. Coppola was also recently named one of Computerworld’s 2012 laureates.

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.