WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will deliver the commencement address at Pace Law School’s 2015 commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 17 on the Good Counsel Lawn. Remarks also will be made by David Yassky, the dean of Pace Law School, Stephen Friedman, the president of Pace University and others. Bharara was ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – The Pace University softball team landed five players on the Northeast-10 All-Conference teams after finishing the regular season with a 24-14 record and second place in the NE-10 Southwest Division. Senior shortstop Jeane Drury, sophomore outfielder Shelby Yung and sophomore catcher Nikole Larm were selected to the first team. Freshmen third baseman Amanda Limon ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – The Pace softball team has been selected to its first-ever NCAA Division II Tournament as they secured the No. 8 seed. The Setters will face No. 1 seed Caldwell University on Friday, May 8 at 1:30 pm on the campus of host Adelphi University. The Setters are coming off one of their most successful season in recent history as they finished the regular season with a ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y -- As part of an ongoing effort to promote STEM education in Westchester, the county Youth Bureau will host an international KENKEN math competition from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. May 31 at Pace University in Pleasantville, County Executive Rob Astorino announced.  “The fields of science, technology, engineering and math – better known as STEM – are growing in leaps and ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins selected Jane Aoyama-Martin, an Irvington resident and the executive director of the Pace Women’s Justice Center, as her nominee for the Women of Distinction Award in 2015. The recognition is given to outstanding women living and working in New York State, whose contributions have greatly enriched the quality of life ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul met with Pace University students and administrators on Tuesday to discuss proposed federal legislation that would toughen punishments when sexual assaults occur on college campuses. Lowey detailed legislation that she will co~sponsor  in Washington, D.C., to bolster Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s "Enough is Enough" ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul and Congresswoman Nita Lowey appeared Tuesday at Pace University’s Westchester campus to take part in a round-table discussion about combating sexual assault on college campuses.Hochul is on a statewide tour which focuses on the Governor’s proposed “Enough is Enough” legislation introduced in March.She was joined by Pace ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University has announced its commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients for its New York City and Westchester ceremonies.  This year’s honorary degree recipient and speaker for Pace’s New York City undergraduate commencement ceremony is Charles Phillips, chief executive officer of Infor, the world’s third largest provider of enterprise software ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Pace University’s School of Education honored the director and founder of its Center for Literacy Enrichment, Sister St. John Delany, in a ceremony on Friday at which the center was officially renamed, in her honor, The Delany Center for Educational Enrichment. White Plains Mayor Tom Roach attended the ceremony, as did the Westchester Deputy County Executive Kevin ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Renee McLeod-Sordjan, assistant director of nurse practitioner programs at Pace University College of Health Professions, shared her insights on baby scalding deaths after a recent tragic incident in the tristate area. A licensed nurse from Queens was charged with murder in the death of a 23-month-old girl that she was hired to care for who was taken to the ...