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Check out FLEFF events all across campus starting today.

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The annual spring NYC bustrip will be April 27...deadline to sign-up is April 12th.

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Each month the Campus Center and Event Services office spotlights seniors in our office who are making a difference.  These outstanding student leaders play a critical role in the functioning of our office--offering outstanding customer service, event knowledge, technical skills and just plain fun. This month we’d like to recognize CLAUDIA FANELLI and ALLI CLARK. Read more about our students in SENIOR SPOTLIGHT.

Stay connected to the people who know how to plan great events. Like us on Facebook (keywords: Campus Center and Event Services).

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"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women, on average, earned 23 percent less than men did in 2011. The American Association of University Women's (AAUW) recent research report, Graduating to a Pay Gap, found that even one year out of college, after controlling for factors known to affect earnings such as college major and hours worked, there is a 7 percent unexplained gender pay gap." -AAUW

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 On Tuesday, April 2, 7pm, in Park Auditorium, FLEFF and the Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF) are screening a powerful documentary, THE WAR AROUND US, centered on the only two English-language journalists who were able to report from inside Gaza during Israel’s 2008/9 invasion, which caused about 1400 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths.  Jeff Cohen, the director of the Park Center for Independent media, will lead a Q&A discussion after this harrowing film.

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On April 7, Sunday Baroque—a weekly public radio program with more than 250,000 listeners—will broadcast selections from a recording by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, led by School of Music’s Jeffery Meyer, Director of Orchestras and Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. 

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School of Music Professor Kim Dunnick presented a trumpet masterclass at the South Carolina Trumpet Guild (SCTG) Festival in Columbia, SC on March 23.

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Patrick Valentino, second year masters student in orchestral conducting, has been invited to study and conduct at the 2013 Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, OR this summer. 

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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 next Faculty Council sponsored Town Hall meeting will be on Tuesday, April 2 at 12:05 in Textor 102.  This meeting is intended to be an open forum for faculty from all of the schools to share thoughts and ideas of mutual concern and interest. No minutes will be taken, no reporters will be present. Staff members, and administrators holding faculty appointments are requested to refrain from attending.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Peter Rothbart at rothbart@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1497. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Ithaca College trumpet professor Frank Gabriel Campos traveled to Alfred University in Alfred, NY and Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX in March to play his "Art of the Single Line" concert program. 

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Click the link below to read what our bloggers are looking forward to most during the week ahead. Entries from interns--

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DOMINICA DIPIO is an associate professor of literature and film from Makerere University and the coordinator of the Folklore Project from the South. She is currently based at Kennesaw State University in Georgia where she is a Fulbright fellow writing on theoretical issues on African folktales. Her research areas include the African novel and film, folktale, gender and the media. She has published widely in these fields and has an upcoming book to be published by Unisa Press titled, Gender Terrains in African Cinema. Dipio is also a filmmaker. The titles of some of the films she has directed are: Abused Innocence: The Plight of the African Child,  Crafting the Bamasaba, A Meal to Forget, and The Green Dream.

For further information, contact Stewart Auyash at auyash@ithaca.edu.

Dr. Murthy will be sharing how the lack of prioritizing women's health leads to dire consequences. Dr. Murthy has been actively involved with advocating for women's rights and has been working with students in projects to improve maternal health. She will be presenting how we can become involved in being global citizens for women's health using work at the New York College of Medicine as an example.

Textor 102, Thursday, April 4, 7pm.

Dr. Murthy's many accomplishments and positions includes:

Global Health Program Director New York Medical college 
School of Health Sciences and Practice

NGO Representative of the Medical Women's International Association to 
the United Nations

International Council on Women's Representative to the World Health Organization

Chair, Committee of Women's Rights- American Public Health Association

This event is sponsored by the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education. For more information, please contact Amy Frith at afrith@ithaca.edu

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is pleased to announce the 2013 Cohort for our competitively selected Graduate Fellows of Color.  Warren Schlesinger serves as coordinator of the FLEFF graduate fellows program.

Festival graduate fellows will participate in screenings, discussions, workshops,  meetings, receptions, and special events from April 4-April 7 at Ithaca College and Cinemapolis. 

Congratulations and Welcome  to our 2013 FLEFF Graduate Fellows Cohort!

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Join us Monday, April 1, for a special edition of the Daily Grind. We will be joined by playwright and poet, Saviana Stanescu-Condeescu, playwright and drama professor, Claire Gleitman, and journalist/documentarian, James Rada, for a conversation about the power and importance of narratives in our lives.

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Save time and money using a PC based software to send your certified mail pieces. 

If you are a department that has a need to send certified mail on a regular basis or would like to find out more about how to send certified mail right from your desktop contact Karen Serbonich, Director of Mail Services at kserbonich@ithaca.edu, to sign up for a webinar being held on April 9th from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. You may participate in the webinar right from your office computer, but seating is limited to 25 participants so act now.

When contacting Karen you’ll want to provide her with the approximate number of certified mail pieces your department sends on an annual basis.

Dr. James Mick, Assistant Professor of Music Education, recently conducted a string orchestra consisting of selected students from all five boroughs of New York City at "The Inaugural Festival of Music for High School Students."

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Is Your Office Moving?? Interested In What Has Been Happening in Facilities?  Facilities is pleased to announce some new and exciting features to our website for the entire campus community!

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On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, the Jewish Studies program and Hillel at Ithaca College are screening NUMBERED to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom ha-Shoah). The movie will be shown in Textor 101 at 7:30 pm, and is free and open to the public.

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