Kudos

The offices of residential life and judicial affairs would like to congratulate the following resident assistants for their efforts:

Resident assistants chosen as "Our Brightest Stars" for September and October excelled in many areas of their position while exhibiting outstanding efforts, attitudes, and abilities. Student staff receiving this award included Bonnie Flock ’01, Erin Hughes ’00, Lisa DiLorenzo ’01, Jen Moran ’01, Diana Iny ’99, Sharon Costianes ’01, Sarah Conroy ’01, Abbie Rhodes ’01, Amanda Markowski ’01, Karly Davis ’01, Neal Abrams ’00, Archana Rao ’00, Anamaria Pirondi ’00, Mike Clemow ’01, Jeremy Dunlap ’01, Johanna Hising ’00, Dan Tillapaugh ’01, Thom Denick ’00, Adele Jerista ’01, Pete Lynch ’00, Shannon Welch ’99, Trish Urso ’01, Shalina Akins ’99, Sherry Weisberg ’99, and Michele Leykum ’00.

In addition, the following resident assistants were awarded the prestigious "Program of the Month" award for their outstanding contributions to residence hall educational and social programming:

Gustavo Rivas ’01, "Multicultural Hosting," Diversity Program of the Month; Lana Al Khayyat ’00, "No Closed Doors," Response Program of the Month; Ola Hannoun ’00, "Personal Finance," Academic Success Program of the Month; Sarah Conroy ’01, "Let’s Get Pierced!" Mind & Body Program of the Month; Kalyan Pande ’99, "BBQ for Beginners," and Sharon Costianes ’01, "Un-Birthday Bags," Social Programs of the Month; Miles Johnson ’01, "Ithaca College Monopoly," Bulletin Board of the Month; Jessica Paul ’00, "Bathroom Decorating," Community Action of the Month; Kim Grizzafi ’00, Community Developer of the Month.

Don Lifton, management, presented a paper, "Black Student ‘Hardiness’ as an Indicator of Likely Persistance to Graduation: Baseline Results from a Longitudinal Study," at the recent 1998 Minority Student Today conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Thomas Swensen, exercise and sport sciences, has been included in the fifth edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 1998. All of the approximately 130,000 listed teachers were selected by one or more former students who themselves were listed in either Who’s Who Among American High School Students or The National Dean’s List.

Michael Galvan, music; Sandra Herndon, organizational communication, learning, and design; Richard Miller, dean, School of Health Sciences and Human Performance; Abraham Mulugetta, finance and international business; Martin Sternstein, mathematics and computer science; Hector Velez, sociology; and graduate students Hong Li and Edwin Robles were presenters at the recent AHANA forum. Hosted by Ithaca College, the forum featured a graduate school fair, a financial aid and admissions presentation, and keynote remarks by Eleanor Reynolds, Cornell University.

Gary English, health promotion and human movement, is a co-principal investigator for a New York State Department of Education Educational Goals 2000 grant. The $20,000 grant is designed to align current practices in health education teaching to state and national health standards.

Stephen Tropiano ’87, director of the Ithaca College Communications Program in Los Angeles, recently participated in a panel entitled "Coming Out Laughing: Gay and Lesbian Characters in Situation Comedies." Tropiano, who teaches cinema at the Los Angeles program, is currently writing a book about the history of gay and lesbian representation on television.