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The Hollywood Reporter polled theater insiders and top casting directors to find the best training grounds for aspiring actors and Pace University’s The Actors Studio came out in the top 25 drama schools in the country.

. . . Information technology forensics can involve drawing up passwords, retrieving temporary files, determining the locations of networks that a computer accessed and collecting other digital fingerprints. The goal of documenting these electronic trails is to prove only one person could have committed the fraud in question on a certain computer, explained Darren R. Hayes, computer information systems program chairman at Pace.

Pace professor Darren Hayes said hacking groups, known as hactivists, are usually spurred to attack by some political reason such as in the recent hackings that crashed several Orlando-area government and community sites . . .Other hactivists will pick their targets after finding a weakness in their security system. Local law enforcement agencies, with stretched resources and limited expertise in computer security, can be easy prey, Hayes said.

Michael A. Oricchio has joined Pace University as its new Executive Director of Media Relations.

Businesses looking to settle in Westchester will soon be able to make connections with 14 of the county’s colleges for everything from interns to research under an agreement just crafted between the schools and the business community. Pace is among the participating colleges and universities.

. . .“The presumed jobless economic recovery in the U.S. is finally reversing itself as the labor market picks up steam,” according to the researchers led by Farrokh Hormozi, an economist and chair of the public administration department at Pace’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences.

According to the latest Pace SkillPROOF IT Index Report (PSII), the market for IT jobs in Manhattan and Westchester is showing signs of improvement.

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.)

A delegation from the Ministry of Education of China will be holding a “Study in China Education Exhibition and Career Fair for Talented American Students (留学中国教育展及留美英才 招聘会)” on May 3, 2012, from 10 AM – 3 PM, in the Pace University Student Union, B-Level, 1 Pace Plaza. The event will focus on opportunities to study abroad in China and for talented students from a number of fields to do research or work in China.

. . . It helps that the “Newsies” cast is extremely well trained, especially in ballet. It’s the underlying reason why these steps in service of musical theater are executed so well, said Rhonda Miller, the director of Pace University’s commercial dance program: “You practice classical technique. You work and work and work daily. But you have to approach movement from the acting perspective.”