Academic Centers and Institutes

Babble Lab: center for digital humanities pedagogy and research that seeks to reimagine how we teach the humanities through the use of data, design, and code and through the study of the new media of the present and the past.

Center for Applied Ethics: A forum where advances in professional work and science confront the values mirrored in the humanities and described in social science.

The Center for Community Action & Research (CCAR): A program of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences that supports the development of community-based learning courses for the Core Curriculum and research on the pedagogy of community-based learning. The Center also sponsors educational forums and civic engagement opportunities on issues of social responsibility, democracy, and global citizenship.

Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURES): Provides leadership, coordination and support to student-faculty research collaborations, grant-funded research projects and programs, and opportunities for service-based internships.

The Dyson Children's Institute: Sponsors projects that focus on improving the lives of children, particularly in Westchester County.

The Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (DCISE): Established to address major issues in sustainability, resilience, the growing urbanization of the 21st century and the impact of these changes on the global environment, through multidisciplinary programs encompassing research, policy-making, education and building greater community awareness and consensus on how to manage these issues. This institute serves as a home to the Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, the Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities, and the Nature Center (formerly known as the Environmental Center).

  • Academy for Applied Environmental Studies: Its mission of this Academy is to advance the understanding of the mutually enhancing relationship between nature and society through interdisciplinary pedagogy, scholarship, policy development, and service
  • Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities: Pace University is the founding and host institution for the Consortium, a model for ecosystem-based collaboration. The mission of the Consortium is to harness higher education's intellectual and physical resources to advance regional, ecosystem-based environmental research, teaching, and learning with a special emphasis on the greater Hudson-Mohawk River Watershed.
  • Nature Center: An educational center dedicated to guiding people of all ages to a lifestyle which is in close harmony with our natural environment and serves as a resource to Pace and the outside community. This center emphasizes Pace's commitment to a philosophy of environmental education and provides students with opportunities for hands-on field studies.
  • The Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies (PIERS): Provides leadership in the study of the complex interrelationships between human culture and nature, with special emphasis on the Hudson River bioregion and its diverse ecological, social, and cultural values.

The Haskins Laboratories: A scientific research center dedicated to exchanging ideas, fostering collaborations and forging partnerships across the sciences.  It produces ground-breaking research that enhances our understanding of parasitic disease and reveals new ways to improve human health across the world.

The Thomas J. McShane Center for Psychological Services: Offers a broad range of psychological services to community residents and referred Pace students. 

Web 2.0 Interdisciplinary Informatics Institute (WEB III): A virtual research institute to examine evolving rules and norms guiding Web 2.0 technologies in professional and civic contexts.