Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

D Y S O N Y E A R I N R E V I E W 2 0 2 1 – 2 0 2 2 28 Edward Allan Baker Edward Allan Baker, professor, Actors Studio Drama School MFA, passed away on November 20, 2021. Baker served as a full-time faculty member from 2006, when he created and led the Playwriting program, until 2021, when he became an adjunct professor. He was greatly admired as a gi ed playwright and will be remembered by students, faculty, and staff as a superb teacher who had a giving and generous spirit and deeply cared about his students' work. His students trusted him with their very first plays and felt nu ured and inspired by him as they developed their cra . His legacy will live on in their work for years to come. Brenda Be inson Brenda Be inson, professor emerita, passed away on November 20, 2021. A member of the Depa ment of A , she was a longtime faculty member who served at Pace for 27 years until her retirement in 1990 and taught on the Westchester and New York City campuses. She was the founding member of the A Depa ment on the then-new Westchester campus in Pleasantville in 1964. Her paintings were exhibited in the New York metropolitan area, in Maine at Mathias Fine A , and at Unity College, Bates College, the Center for Maine Contemporary A , the Ogunquit Museum of American A , and the Holocaust and Human Rights Center at the University of Maine at Augusta. Mary M. Timney, PhD Mary M. Timney, PhD, professor emerita, passed away on January 1, 2022. A devoted member of the Depa ment of Public Administration, she came to Pace in 2002 and retired in 2014, serving as chair of the depa ment for more than two years. Timney challenged and nu ured hundreds of students throughout her decades-long career, in which she taught graduate students in public administration and undergraduate political science students. Fellow educators and students will remember Timney as an exemplary colleague and a dedicated theory enthusiast who used warmth and humor to challenge students and colleagues alike. Most impo antly, she will be remembered as an ethical, professional, and caring human being. In Memoriam Grant Funding Mancini Receives NIH Grant to Study COVID-19 Impacts Associate Professor of Psychology, Anthony Mancini, PhD, received a four-year, $440,632 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which took effect on June 1, to study the social and economic impacts of COVID-19. Mancini's work will examine the relationship between financial stress and mental health in response to COVID-19 and will focus on the impacts of geographic region, social capital, and resilience on individuals and the broader social landscape. Pace undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral psychology students will serve as volunteer or paid research assistants on the study. Aiello-Lammens, Crispo Tackling "Big Data" with NSF Grant Associate Professor of Environmental Science Ma hew Aiello-Lammens, PhD, and Biology Associate Professor Erika Crispo, PhD, along with colleagues from 12 peer institutions, received a $499,354, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which took effect in October 2021. The grant will allow the group to continue expanding the Biological and Environmental Data Education (BEDE) Network, with the aim of establishing a diverse, wide-reaching community of college instructors "trained in integrating data science skills across introductory biology and environmental science curricula." Chase Earns NEH Fellowship Award to Write Book on Cuban Activism Associate Professor of History Michelle Chase, PhD, was awarded $60,000 outright as pa of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for her project Red Star Over Cuba: A Global History of Anti-Castroism A er the Bay of Pigs. The grant, which took effect on January 1, will contribute to Chase's research and writing of a book on anti-communist activism among Cuban exiles a er 1961. Biology, Chemistry, and Math Depa ments Receive CSTEP Grant Pace University's biology, chemistry and physical sciences, and mathematics depa ments received a Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) $240,000, four-year grant from the New York State Education Depa ment. The grant will help fund scholarships for students in underrepresented groups or economically disadvantaged students with majors in the Depa ments of Biology, Chemistry and Physical Sciences, and Environmental Sciences and Studies. Moreover, it will provide resources for student-faculty research and depa mental programming. $513,171 The total amount of continued ($38,255) and new ($474,916) funding during the 2021-22 academic year from both the governmental and private sectors.

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