Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

W W W . P A C E . E D U / D Y S O N 27 Lee Evans, EdD, Professor Professor Lee Evans, EdD, pe orming a s, passed away on August 29, 2023. Professor Evans joined Pace as an adjunct professor in 1989 and became a full-time associate professor in theater and fine a s in 1993. He also served as chair of the Theater and Fine A s depa ment, which is now the Sands College of Pe orming A s at Pace. Evans was a pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, music coordinator, contractor, and conductor for such show business luminaries as Carol Channing, Tom Jones, Engelbe Humperdinck, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He recorded several albums for Capital Records, Command Records, and MGM Records in the 1960s. He was also a prolific author, composer, and arranger of approximately 100 music books published in the United States, 38 in Japan, and two in the former Soviet Union. Charles Masiello, PhD, Dean and Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, and Dyson College Dean Emeritus Charles Masiello, PhD, passed away on September 9, 2023. Dean Masiello served Pace University for 45 years, joining the Mathematics depa ment in 1968, and retiring from full-time teaching in 2013. During his long tenure, he served as Dean of Dyson College from 1990 to 1999, and as chair of the Mathematics depa ment from 2009 to 2013. The Dyson College Society of Fellows Class of 1999 was named a er him in recognition of his commitment to student scholarship and success. A er stepping down as Dyson College dean in 1999, he continued to teach mathematics on the Pleasantville campus. A er retiring from full-time teaching in 2013, Masiello continued as an adjunct professor from 2014 to 2015. Dean Masiello was collegial, kind, and always put the students first. He will be remembered as a though ul and methodical educator and administrator who was dedicated to the Dyson College community. Jean Fagan Yellin, PhD, Professor Emerita Distinguished Professor Emerita of English Jean Fagan Yellin, PhD, passed away on July 19, 2023. Professor Yellin began teaching at Pace in 1968. She wrote and edited dozens of books, a icles, and presentations about literature, race, and women in 19th century America. Through years of research, Yellin verified that Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl indeed had been "wri en by herself," as the book's promotion proclaimed. Yellin's definitive edition of the work, published in 1987, was quickly accepted by scholars, making Incidents a classic pa of the American literary canon. In 2004, Yellin published Harriet Jacobs: A Life, a biography that went beyond Incidents to reveal Jacobs's inspiring roles in the movements for women's suffrage and the education of former enslaved people. The book earned her an award from the Modern Language Association and the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale for the best historical research of the year on slavery. In Memoriam Grant Funding Pace University Receives $25,000 Teagle Foundation Grant to Establish Fellowship Program Pace University was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to establish an undergraduate fellowship to create the next generation of leaders working on the governance of New York City waterways. The funds are from The Teagle Foundation's Education for American Civic Life initiative and will provide suppo for faculty in the development of an undergraduate fellowship program, "The City and the Sea: A New York City Fellowship in Civics and Public Service." The fellowship will be a combination of two courses and an internship experience. In pa nership with the Helene T. and Grant M. Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship, the Dyson College of A s and Sciences depa ments of Public Administration and Political Science, and the Center for Community Action and Research, the program will connect students with New York City public offices and community organizations and develop their understanding of the city around them, while engaging them through texts, history, and ideas. $1,563,104 The total amount of continued ($678,459) and new ($884,645) funding during the 2023-24 academic year from both the governmental and private sector.

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