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The Department of Biology honored longtime faculty members Florence and John "Jack" Bernard with the dedication of the John M. Bernard and Florence A. Bernard Biological Collections Center in the Center for Natural Sciences. The Bernards recently established a fund at IC for undergraduate research.

The Women Direct Festival and Symposium at IC collaborated with the Cinema on the Edge film series and other campus organizations in sponsoring a series of film- and video-related events in March. Tami Gold was the Women Direct artist in residence

Former U.S. surgeon general Joycelyn Elders visited campus as part of Black History Month. Elders spoke on "Health Care Disparities in the Minority Community" and met with students and faculty in HSHP.

In March the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science hosted "Mathematics for Teachers and Mathematics for Teaching," a four-day workshop sponsored by Mathematicians and Education Reform and the American Mathematical Society.

IC's Summer College for High School Students earned an Editor's Choice Award from Early College Programs (the first book written on precollege and college enrichment programs), noted for its "best quality" among private colleges and art schools in the Northeast.

In its second year at IC, the War: Search for a Common Ground Film Festival brought to campus 19 international films demonstrating workable solutions to war and conflict.

Former Boston Herald columnist Don Feder discussed the issue of "When Should America Intervene in Foreign Crises?" at a public lecture in March.

Nehemia Polen, professor of Jewish thought and director of the Hasidic Text Institute at Boston's Hebrew College, delivered the 2003 Distinguished Holocaust Lecture, titled "Divine Weeping: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto."

This year's C. P. Snow Lecture Series addressed the theme of "Consciousness: For Humans Only?" Steven M. Wise, an attorney who has practiced animal protection law for two decades, discussed "Consciousness and Animal Rights," while John H. Holland, a proponent of the idea that computer programs can "evolve" in ways that resemble natural selection, spoke on "Emergence: From Chaos to Order."

The Department of Sociology is participating in an American Sociological Association program to strengthen the development of new methods of introducing students to the use of data. It's part of a collaborative effort between the ASA and the Social Science Data Analysis Network, an organization at the University of Michigan that makes census data accessible to educators, policymakers, and the media. Ithaca is one of six colleges and universities nationwide selected to participate.

IC's first Rashad Galen Richardson "I Can Achieve" Scholarship was awarded to TV-R major Ephra Graham '04.