Keeping Pace

This week kicks off Pace’s multiple Commencement ceremonies and marks a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our graduates’ successes. It also provides us with the chance to remind current students of the many opportunities they still have ahead of them.

What do Star Trek, romantic rejection, presidential signing statements, sustainable travel, and research in HIV, tuberculosis, and cardiovascular disease have in common? These are just some of the fields where undergraduate students paired with faculty in Pace’s new research initiative.

Pace student Kristi Hey is doing it all. In between IT classes and winning pageants, this beauty queen is busting bad guys and raising awareness about the #1 killer of teens—motor vehicle accidents.

Pace professor Jean F. Coppola and her nationally recognized collaborative and multidisciplinary research team study older adults, computing, and what happens when the Internet Age and the Golden Age collide.

Four members of the Pace Community share their views on hydraulic fracturing, the issues surrounding it, and the possibility of a greener future.

London’s calling Pace alumna Jessica Wade ’11, who will be covering the 2012 Summer Olympics as a production assistant for NBC.

The results are in! Six members of the Pace Community have been selected to receive Jefferson Awards Bronze Medals for their commitment to service–and one will even pack her bags for DC to compete for a Gold Medal Award.