PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace University women's basketball team volunteered at the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run in downtown Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 28. The run is designed so participants can run or walk in the footsteps of Stephen Siller, a firefighter who lost his life on 9/11 after making a heroic journey to the towers. He was on his way to help the morning of Sept.11, ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University will break ground on Thursday, Oct. 9, on a new athletics complex that will modernize and upgrade athletic facilities on its Pleasantville campus . The $13.5 million project, which is part of the Pace Master Plan for the Pleasantville campus, includes construction of a new athletics field house, a new softball field and renovations to Peter X. ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace University men's basketball team has added Division I University of Rhode Island to its 2014-15 schedule. The Setters will open their season against the Rams on Friday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.I. "It's a real honor to play a storied Division I program such as URI," said Pace Head Coach Pat Kennedy. "Our coaches and players ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University will co-sponsor Conservation Cafe's Conversations on Conversation series, "People Power: How Citizen Science is Changing the Way Scientists Work," which is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Westchester County Center.  Westchester County Center is at 198 Central Ave., White Plains. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University students participated on Sunday, Sept. 21, in the People's Climate March in New York City, which included 400,000 people.  Caroline Craig, Pace Academy's research assistant, worked for weeks to organize the event.      

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Pace University Law School's Center for Environmental Legal  Studies and Federated Conservationists of Westchester County hosted a day-long conference on the impacts of climate change Sept. 12 at the New York State Judicial Institute at Pace Law School. The conference was co-sponsored by Sustainable Westchester.  Experts, including keynote speakers Dr. Cynthia ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace University Entrepreneurship Lab will host a seven-week Veterans Entrepreneurship Boot Camp from Thursday, Oct. 9, through Thursday, Nov. 24. The boot camp is a hands-on technology focused program providing participants with valuable skills that can be applied immediately. Small groups will meet in the state of the art Entrepreneurship Lab in downtown ...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- James Eyring, the assistant director of Pace University’s Environmental Center, herded sheep and goats from the old barn to the new barn which has been erected as part of the new Environmental Center complex, a major component of the Master Plan for Pace’s Pleasantville campus.  

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Students from Pace University athletics teams, Greek life and extracurricular programs participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for a Cure and won the largest team for a university on Sunday, Sept. 7.  Members of the Pace University softball, volleyball, men's lacrosse, women's basketball teams and the Greek organization Nu Zeta Phi all participated in the ...

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- Peter Danish, a Pace University alumnus who is a former television executive and the author of the new book "The Tenor," will be speak and sign books at the Chappaqua Public Library on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m.  At the event, there will be a reading of selections from the book and a performance by opera singers of several arias that figure prominently in the story, ...