Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

W W W . P A C E . E D U / D Y S O N 23 SETTER STORIES Faculty Michelle Chase, PhD, Selected as a Periclean Leader Associate Professor of History Michelle Chase, PhD, was selected as a Periclean Faculty Leader by Project Pericles and has received a $4,500 grant from the organization to create a new humanities course that incorporates a community- initiated project. With the funding, Chase launched HIS 134: Modern Latin America, a course that satisfies Pace's civic engagement requirement. Through the course, Chase and her students pa nered with a local nonprofit, the No h American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), dedicated to advocating for social justice throughout the Americas, focusing specifically on Latin American migration to the United States, and US foreign policy toward Latin America. S. Perl Egendo , PhD, Receives the 2023 Women in Science Incentive Prize Assistant Professor S. Perl Egendo , PhD, was named a grant awardee for the 2023 Women in Science Incentive Prize from the Story Exchange for her contribution to developing New York City's Clean Soil Bank. Carlie Hoffman, MFA, Earns a National Jewish Book Award Adjunct Professor of English Carlie Hoffman, MFA, received a 2024 National Jewish Book Award for her poetry collection titled When There Was Light. Hoffman was awarded the Berru Award in Poetry in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash. Now in its 73rd year, the National Jewish Book Awards is a prestigious and long-running program of the National Jewish Council. This year, more than 100 judges reviewed over 650 submissions. Public Administration Professors Gina Scutelnicu- Todoran, PhD, and Rebecca Tekula, PhD, Receive Grant Professors of Public Administration Gina Scutelnicu-Todoran, PhD, and Rebecca Tekula, PhD, have been awarded a nearly $30,000 grant by the Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies to assess the financial status of approximately 75 New York State agencies under its umbrella. These agencies provide child welfare services, including foster care, preventive services, and juvenile justice services. "We are honored to receive this grant," said Tekula, who is the director of Pace University's Master of Public Administration program and the executive director of Pace's Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship. "This work is not just about financials; it's about ensuring that agencies providing essential services to our most vulnerable populations—children in foster care, preventive services, and juvenile justice—are financially equipped to meet their needs effectively." Shamita Du a Gupta, PhD, Receives Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence Shamita Du a Gupta, PhD, is a professor and associate chair of the Depa ment of Mathematics on the New York City campus. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1995. Her main areas of research are number theory, actuarial science, financial mathematics, and mathematics education. She has been awarded internal and external grants and authored 30 publications. Professor Gupta is passionate about curriculum development. She has created Learning Communities in pa nership with the English depa ment, titled Crossing the Divide: The A of Mathematical Thinking and the Science of Rhetoric, and with Women's and Gender Studies, titled Culture and Math: The Intersectionality of Gender, Race and Class. In her service-learning calculus course, Teach and Learn Calculus, she pa ners with neighborhood high schools, where her students tutor high school students in algebra and pre-calculus. Recently, she launched Embedded Mini Boot Camps to identify and address students in need of immediate remediation in her calculus sequence courses. She has created special online study modules that provide custom-made remediation, promoting student success. She has been recognized for her commitment to her students with an Excellence in Teaching Award at Florida International University in 2000 and the Mathematical Association of America Metro New York Section Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2023. Vyshali Manivannan, PhD, Receives Multiple Awards Assistant Professor of English, Writing, and Cultural Studies Vyshali Manivannan, PhD, earned several impressive accolades. She received honorable mention for the 2023 Kairos Best Webtext Award for "Hollow Me, Hollow Me, Until Only You Remain," published in Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal. She was also honored with the 2023-24 Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award for her co-edited special issue on "Carework and Writing During COVID," Pa I and Pa II, published in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Manivannan received the 2023 Technology Innovator Award, given by the Conference on College Composition and Communication Commi ee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs), which recognizes long-term, innovative contributions to the computer and writing community that push the field regarding excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, and which call our assumptions into question.

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