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I would like to extend my thanks to all members of the Ithaca College community who assisted with an extremely successful Family Weekend. Approximately 1,700 family members attended a variety of events during the weekend of November 6-8, 2009.

Student photographer, Heather Newburger '10, spent her weekend taking pictures of the event for your enjoyment. You can see her work by clicking onto the photo galleries at www.ithaca.edu/familyweekend.

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John Confer presented, "The Scientific Literature, Models of P-eutrophication, and the Lake Source Cooling" at Tompkins County Water Resources Council. November 2009.

Ithaca College was well represented at the recent annual meetings of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, the largest organization of scholars and practitioners in the field.

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Zillah Eisenstein, professor of politics, will see her newest book, The Audacity of Races and Genders, A personal and global story of the Obama Election, launched in the U.S. and will do a reading in Ithaca December 3.

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Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of the national Society for Music Theory, Inc. Published several times each year, each issue includes features such as articles, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents. Deborah Rifkin joins the editorial board for a two-year term.

Assistant professor Dennis Charsky in the Department of Strategic Communication and alum Jessica Briskin ’09 recently presented at the annual international convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Professors Brian Karafin, Rachel Wagner and Amanullah De Sondy attended the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion in Montreal from 6-10th November. They were accompanied by students John Borchert, Shannon Sly, and Christa Petruzzi, supported by an Ithaca College Educational Grant Initiative award. Amanullah presented a paper within the Men’s Studies in Religion Group on the topic of his forthcoming monograph on ‘Islamic Masculinities in Texts, Traditions, Societies and Culture’ and participated in the Study of Islam Section of the conference. Rachel presented twice, once at the Wabash Center for Teaching and Theology's luncheon on pedagogies of virtual reality, and a second time on rituals and gaming in a blended session of the Ritual Studies Group and the Religion, Media and Culture Group.

Holly Fodge, a graduate student in the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education (HPPE), presented a paper titled, "Women in the Academy and the Price of Legitimacy" at the Succeeding as Women in Higher Education Conference at SUNY Cortland on October 25, 2009.

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Timothy Glenn, Lecturer in English, presented a paper titled "Cultural Resistance and 'Playing Indian' in Thomas King's 'Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre'" at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference in Boston, MA, Nov. 6. 

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On Saturday, November 7th, in front of a large enthusiastic audience, Campus Center Managers Kaleigh Mrowka and Kiera Duckworth presented a session titled “Managing Personalities” at the Association of College Unions International Conference in Rochester, NY. 

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Congratulations to Residential Life “Of the Block Award” Winners!

It is with great pleasure that the RA Recognition Committee announces

the winners of the Block 1 Awards:

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Professor Tom Shevory and Lecturer Tsatsral Davaadorj (Mongolian National University) presented the paper, "The Ethics of Politics and the Politics of Ethics:  The U.S. and Mongolia," at the Conference on Democracy and Political Parties, Genghis Khan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, November 15, 2009.  The conference was sponsored by the Mongolian National University, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, and the Mongolian Academy of Public Administration.
 

Michael Whelan, a member of IC's Department of Speech Communication, was appointed to the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) of New York State on November 3, 2009. 

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Vivian Bruce Conger, History, has published "'There Is Graite Odds between A Mans being At Home And A Broad': Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth-Century Home" in the journal Gender and History, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2009, pp. 592-607.

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Dr. William Tastle, Associate Professor of Management, has been named a Distinguished Fellow by the Association of Information Technology Professionals, Education Special Interest Group (AITP-EDSIG).  He is one of only 11 Fellows nationwide.

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Ithaca College School of Music voice students won almost every possible category in the recent state National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition.  The results follow, with the students’ name followed by their teacher:

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Stephen D. Younger has been appointed Scholar in Residence in the Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College.

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Submitted on behalf of Laurie Arliss, professor and chair, Department of Speech Communication.

Three talented Ithaca College students were finalists in the 2009 Perialas Prize for Oratory. The event, sponsored by the Department of Speech Communication, awards a $500 prize to the top speaker.

This year's topic was "Health Care: Right or Privilege?" The winner was Lindsey Stafford (center in photo), a senior IMC major, who argued cogently that access to health care is every citizen's right. Also impressing the listeners were runners-up Joyti Jiandani (on left in photo), a sophomore speech-language pathology major, and Ryan Bigler, senior speech communication major.

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Allison Girasole (Biology, '10) and Philip Feinberg (Biochemistry, '11) presented research done in collaboration with Jean Hardwick at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago, IL in late October.  This is the preeminent gathering of neuroscientists from around the world. Attendance at these meetings is approximately 31,000 individuals.

• Allison presented a poster, "Modulation of neuronal responses in guinea pig intrinsic cardiac neurons with chronic heart disease:  Changes in sensitivity to norepinephrine, acetylcholine, and angiotensin II." in the main conference.” She received a travel award from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience to support her attendance, as well as support from the Ithaca College Honors program.&

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Nancy Cornwell, Professor and Chair, Department of Television-Radio has been selected as a 2010 Faculty Fellow by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Educational Foundation.  NATPE is a global non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms, across all mature and emerging media platforms. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Cornwell will attend the 2010 NATPE Market and Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  During that time, she will participate in a range of faculty sessions focused on television programming, distribution, advertising, audience measurement as well as emerging issues facing the television industry.