Ithaca College

• DATE: Monday, April 29, 2013
• TIME: 11:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
• PLEASE REGISTER BY: Tuesday, April 23 (event is free and open to the public)

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Assistant professor of music composition Jorge Grossmann has been selected to receive a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation, which grants him five-week residency at the study center in Liguria, Italy. 

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Even as this semester draws to a close, it’s time to prepare for the next one.  Getting your booklist to the Campus Store before the end of the semester can save students money.

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In the past two weeks, Rachel Wagner was a featured panelist at New York University and at University of Colorado, Boulder, sharing her work on religion and virtual reality.

At NYU's Center for Religion and Media, in partnership with NYU Abu Dhabi, she presented a talk entitled: Mitzvot Mash-up: Interactivity as Transformative Interpretation, as part of an event called "Digital Judaism: Tablet to Tablet." The event was supported by the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.

At the University of Colorado's Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, she presented a talk entitled "Video Games, Ritual and the Problem of Violence," in a pair of talks alongside Jason Anthony, senior editor at Time Inc.

The publication is in the Indian Theatre Special Issue: The Body.

Guest-Editor Sreenath Nair. Studies in South Asian Film and Media. Vol.5.1 August/September 2013.

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Writing for the Workplace

jstafford@ithaca.edu

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The School of Business hosted a luncheon to thank their student workers for all their hard work this academic year.  

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Student, faculty member, staff member and vice president – Carl Sgrecci ‘69 has done it all at IC!  Please join in a celebration of his remarkable career on Thursday, May 2, 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in Emerson A & B. 

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Tickets are still available. There are only four performances remaining of this dramatic adaptation by Arthur Miller of Ibsen's tale pitting brother against brother and environmental degradation against economic prosperity.

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We are all aware of the countless reports and studies being released about the health dangers associated with sitting for prolonged periods of time.  Increase of cholesterol, increased risk of stroke and heart disease, restlessness, loss of productivity, listlessness, and the list goes on and on; but many of us tend to sit at a desk for 9+ hours a day, so what are we supposed to do? Kelli Calabrese, MS, an exercise physiologist and spokesman for the American Council on Exercise says that you can get a full cardio workout in while you are at your desk, as long as you are within your target heart rate.

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Asma Barlas, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, has published a chapter, “Does the Qur’an Support Gender Equality?" in  Negotiating Autonomy and Authority in Muslim Contexts. The editors of the volume are M. Buitelaar and M. Bernards and it has been published by Peeters, in the Netherlands.

The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to announce the following May events.  Please visit www.ithaca.edu/cfe for updates.

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Graduating seniors Anna Rothfus (Theater Arts Management with a minor in French) and Richard Yue (French and Francophone Studies) have been selected to teach English in France as part of the French government's Teaching Assistantship in France Program for the 2013 - 2014 academic year.

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The Technology Learning Center in ITS is introducing a brand new computing workshop for instructors starting next week: Sakai Tests and Quizzes. The Tests & Quizzes tool can be used to create, distribute, and grade assessments that students can complete in Sakai. Click either link below to register today!

Sakai: Test & Quizzes on 4/30/13

Sakai: Tests & Quizzes on 5/3/13

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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 29th to May 3rd. Click any link below to register online instantly! Be sure to complete the full registration process in our new online training registration system as you sign up. You will receive a confirmation message e-mail message once you have successfully registered for a given topic.

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Submitted on behalf of Terri Stewart, Director for Public Safety & Emergency Management

The Ithaca College Office of Public Safety & Emergency Management, in partnership with the Student Government Association (SGA), Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) and Center for Health Promotion invite all students to join us in what we hope will be a series of dialogue with members of the Public Safety team. 

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Join Janet Galván, as she leads the Women's Chorale and several very special guests in an evening of song that explores the collective fabric of our experiences. 

"Weaving Stories" | Ithaca College Women's Chorale
Janet Galván, conductor
Ford Hall
Friday April 26th, 2013
8:15 pm

Featuring Works by Sally Lamb, Paquito D'Rivera, Rhiannon from WeBe3, Randall Thompson, Flory Jagoda, and more!

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An article written by Music Education and Performance major Michael Reinemann (’13) was accepted for publication earlier this month in the Journal of Band Research, a premier collection of academic articles on musical analysis, band history, and rehearsal methodology. 

Titled “Agents of Form in the Third Movement of Ned Rorem's Sinfonia for 15 Wind Instruments,” Reinemann’s article investigates formal construction in a lesser-known 20th Century work for wind ensemble by Ned Rorem called “Sinfonia for 15 Winds and Percussion.” It will be published in the spring of 2014. 

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Written and Performed by Regi Carpenter
Accompanied by Cellist Elizabeth Simkin

Friday, April 26, 2013
4:00 p.m., Nabenhauer Recital Room, 4308 Whalen Center

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Matt Fee, director of the Park Scholar Program, presented at the recent international conference Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts, held at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland.

Fee presented "Gothic Anxiety and Historical Transformation in Irish Cinema," research that examines how Irish films from the 1980s and 1990s use the Gothic in order to examine anxieties around Irish identity in the late twentieth century, particularly involving Ireland's Anglo-Irish inheritance from its colonial eighteenth century.