Ithaca College

 Donathan Brown, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in H&S and former predoctoral diversity fellow, has been invited to serve as editor of a special issue of the Journal of Latino and Latin American Studies.  The issue will focus on the discursive state of immigration reform in the United States.

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Professor of Double Bass, Nicholas Walker, traveled to Rostock, Germany to perform in a rare event, a five hour concert of music performed on the double bass, a kind of "BASS MARATHON". Joining Professor Silvio Dalla Torre, and the the bass class of Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock at the end of their winter semester, fourteen double bassists offered a buffet of music for friends of the low tones. The concert in the Chamber Music Hall of HTM Rostock was very well attended by residents of the larger Mecklenburg-Vorpommern community, and culminated in a standing ovation. 

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Please join the staff of the Office of Counseling and Wellness on May 1 (4:30 to 6:00 pm) in the Collaboration Room of the Park School of Communications (Park 220) to honor Dr. Rankins’ contributions to the campus community.
 

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If you have time available during final exam week and can give us a three hour block of time for proctoring exams, please contact us.

This may be a good time for you to get some grading or reading done and, at the same time, provide a valuable service to the IC community. We can ask your deans and supervisors for release time, if necessary.

If you're interested, please contact Kelly Charnley for more information. She can be reached at kcharnley@ithaca.edu or 274-1257.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

The staff at Student Disability Services

Join English faculty advisors and students currently conducting research projects for free pizza and a discussion of what's involved.

Tuesday, April 9 at noon in Friends 209.

This information session is sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society.

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The 2013 C. P. Snow Lecturer is Dr. Anthony Aveni, who on Wednesday, April 10 (TONIGHT!) at 7pm in Textor 102 will present a talk entitled "Doomsday Scenarios and the Ancient Maya:  At the Crossroads of Culture, Science, and Religion."

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Katharine Kittredge, Professor of English, was awarded the 2012-2013 Women's Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Editing and Translation Fellowship. 

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Presentation by Dana Brown, Executive Director of the US Office on Colombia, a human rights advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. 

Brown’s talk with address the many facets of the current peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla, with a special focus on civil society engagement in the peace process. She will highlight the struggle of victims’ to secure some measure of truth, justice and reparations in this process, and the possibilities for a parallel peace process with the ELN. Lastly, she will expose critical issues excluded from the negotiating agenda that could have grave implications for the prospects of a lasting peace.

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Physics Spring Seminar Series: Three IC Physics Student Present on Their Summer Research. 

Casey Byrne, Ithaca College, With Luke Keller: Grism Wavelength Calibration for the Faint Object Camera for the SOFIA Telescope

Jeffrey Porzio, Ithaca College, With Luke Keller : Sonification of Spectral Data

Martin Garay, Ithaca College With Luke Keller : Trouble Shooting in IDL

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 The New York Press Association has named The Ithacan the Best Overall College Newspaper in New York State for 2012 in its annual Better College Newspaper competition. The award was presented April 6 at the NYPA’s annual convention at the Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.  

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ITS is pleased to announce that the Technology Learning Center will be offering training on a variety of computing topics during the week of April 8th to 12th. Click any link below to register online instantly!

Adobe Creative Suite Series:
InDesign: Introduction
Photoshop: Introduction
Photoshop: Creating Flyers

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Take advantage of the more than 350 concerts offered each year by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at www.ithaca.edu/music/events/ and this week's are listed below.

Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at www.ithaca.edu/music/live.

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The Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen series at Ithaca College will host a free public showing of the film “The Lesbian Fairytale Musical” on Thursday, April 11th at 7 p.m. in Textor 103. Members of the creative team behind LFM, and cast and crew, will be on hand to introduce the film and provide Q&A and insight into the making of the musical. The screening will be the final offering of this year's LGBT Center Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen Film Series.

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I am pleased to announce that “Brooklyn,” by the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, has been selected for the First-Year Reading Initiative for the 2013–14 academic year. The winner of the 2009 Costa Novel Award, the book was named by the Great Britain’s “Observer” newspaper as one of the 10 best historical novels.

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On Saturday, April 6, nine mathematics majors presented their research at the 20th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held at Williams College.   This is largest undergraduate mathematics conference in the U.S.

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Representatives from Apple Inc., will be on campus Wednesday April 10th doing a series of seminars on a variety of topics. These sessions are free and open to the campus community. They will take place in the Ithaca Falls Room in the Campus Center from 9 am until 4 pm. Click here to sign-up.

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50% off ALL clearance items starting on Wednesday!!

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The “Grief and Loss When Working with Older People” workshop will be held Wednesday, April 10th, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca (just 5 minutes south of the college).

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Junior Exercise Science major, James Mercer, found his writing assignment from Introduction to Developmental Psychology, "The Place I am From", published in his hometown newspaper this past February. Clearly, the story he tells of living close to the events of 9-11 and then, enduring Hurricane Sandy, resonated for his small waterfront community of Rockaway, NY - so much so that a local store is selling framed copies of his poem to raise relief money for storm victims!  To read the poem, go to: http://www.rockawave.com/news/2013-02-15/Top_Stories/The_Place_I_Am_From.html

Way to go, James!

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The Ithaca College chapter of the American Marketing Association (ICAMA) received numerous honors at the 35th Annual Intercollegiate Conference in New Orleans, March 21-23, 2013.

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