Press Room

The eels are here in the tributaries of the Hudson, where citizen scientists like Pace University’s Theresa Pellecchia, are catching and counting these slithery creatures to find out why their populations are declining.

Pace communications students in Maria Luskay’s and Andrew Revkin’s Producing the Documentary course were featured in an article in Education Outlook, a supplement of The Journal News.

Pace unveiled its new solar classroom, funded by Con Edison, and The Journal News, News 12 and The Daily Pleasantville reported on the event. (Left: Angelo Spillo, director of the Environmental Center at Pace, addresses the crowd at Thursday’s solar panel unveiling. Photo credit: Brian Marschhauser)

The Pleasantville Examiner ran a feature story covering two related Earth Month events at Pace. Both events explored a controversial environmental issue – hydro-fracking. The first event, entitled WTF? (What the Frac?), was a neutral debate with energy experts. The second event was a session with community groups decidedly against fracking.

Andrew Revkin, senior fellow at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies at Pace, said on NPR’s The Takeaway that this year’s record temperatures are an indication of what to expect in the future. (Left: A giant umbrella keeps a few fans in the shade as temperatures hit 90 degrees during an MLB spring training baseball game between in Peoria, Ariz., on March 31, 2012. Photo by Darryl Webb/Reuters.)

Pace University’s first solar classroom will officially open April 19 thanks to a $15,000 grant from Con Edison. A ceremony will take place at the site of the newly retrofitted classroom, Pace’s popular Environmental Center, on Thursday, April 19, 2012, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Pace Pleasantville campus, 861 Bedford Road, entrance 3.

April is Earth Month at Pace, and a variety of environmental –related events are
scheduled to promote awareness and action, covering important topics from recycling to conservation to nature lore.

Karl Coplan, co-director of the Pace University Environmental Litigation Clinic, is one commuter who would use the path.

Pace Law Professor John Nolon argues that a new Tappan Zee Bridge offers opportunities for smart, transit-oriented development, via state support and assistance from the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council.

Fresh off a trip to Japan to survey the Fukishima nuclear power plant, Dyson Professor Chris Williams told WOR’s John Gambling in an eight minute radio interview how the country has a changed a year after the powerful Earthquake.