At the University of Costa Rica earlier this month, Michael Smith (History/Environmental Studies and Sciences) gave a one-week graduate seminar entitled "The Environmental History of the Americas."  He also presented a paper, "The Enduring International Significance of Rachel Carson" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring. 
 

Associate Professor Jennifer Jolly was an invited speaker for a panel on Mexican Muralism held at CUNY's Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies on May 17.  She spoke on her current research regarding the intersection between art, tourism and nation-building in 1930s Mexico. 

Kathleen Mulligan (Theatre Arts) will return to Pakistan as a Fulbright Specialist on May 21st for a three-week visit.

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Associate Professor Jeff Holmes (Psychology) presented on April 5 at the Farmingdale Conference on the Teaching of Psychology in Tarrytown, NY.  His presentation, a collaboration with a colleague at Simmons College in Boston, was entitled, "Cockroaches, Monsters, and Placebos:  Ten Studies to Promote Student Appreciation for Research in Psychology."

Naeem Inayatullah (Politics) gave a commencement address, "Caring for the Moment," for the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, May, 10, 2013.

Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was an invited speaker at the University of Oregon (UO) April 17-20, 2014.

As part of the Cinema Pacific Film Festival, Zimmermann delivered a lecture entitled “The Home Movie Archive Live,” analyzing archival, music, and live performance collaborations as mappings of new historiographic public spaces.

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Patricia Zimmermann was recently named the recipient of the Park School Faculty Writing Award for her essay, "Humanist and Poetic Activism: The Rob Flaherty Film Seminar in the 1950s."

Zimmerman, professor of screen studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was selected unanimously by a judging panel consisting of Park School faculty whose professional expertise represent scholarly writing, journalism, and screen/scriptwriting.

According to the judges, Zimmermann's work "represents a culmination of multiple years of solid scholarship and examines an area of cinema history that gave birth to the early independent film festivals that has rarely been explored."

The essay was published by University of St. Andrews Press (2012).

Seniors Joseph Killeen and Ethan Burnette are this year's recipients of the Park School Student Writing Award.

A panel of Park School faculty whose professional expertise represent scholarly writing, journalism, and screen/scriptwriting reviewed the nominations and selected the winners.

The committee unanimously agreed to split the award between Killeen, author of the short script, LOVESICK, and Burnette, author of a full-length screenplay, SYNAPSE.

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Three faculty members, along with some of their students, presented at the New York State Speech Language Hearing Association Conference held in Saratoga Springs recently.

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Head men's cross country and track & field coach Jim Nichols was awarded the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Distinguished Service Award Saturday at the NYSCTC Outdoor Championships. The award is presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the association over the years.

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The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) has elected School of Music students Jillian Francis (’14) and Grace Dermerath (’15) to sit on its Collegiate Executive Board for the 2013-14 academic year.

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During a very brief trip to Russia this past week, Jorge Grossmann, assistant professor at the School of Music, attended the world premiere of his new piece “Mosoq,” performed at the Moscow Conservatory as part of a concert featuring electroacoustic works. 

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Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was an invited speaker at Dartmouth College April 26-27, 2014.

In collaboration with new media designer and director Helen De Michiel (Lunch Love Community project), she presented “Open Space Documentary: A Theory of Transmedia and Collaboration .” The presentation explored a theory of open space transmedia and analyzed large scale collaborative projects that reorganize and recalibrate documentary relations and practices, focusing on works from across the United States and Southeast Asia.

Zimmermann and De Michiel were also featured at the White River Indie Festival in Vermont, with a special workshop and lecture entitled “Open Space Transmedia: Documentary across Platforms, Encounters and Communities.” New media artist Laura Kissel, designer of The Cotton Road Project, was also part of the team. Their participation in WRIF was sponsored by Dartmouth College.

Associate Professor Cynthia Henderson, Theatre Arts, has been invited to teach and direct at the Beijing New Oriental School in China during the summer of 2013. 

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The 2013 exam period has just started, but as of this moment, the Ithaca College Athletic Training Education Program is at 100%, first time BOC pass rate for class of 2013! We still have a few graduating seniors who will be taking the exam in June or July, but as of this writing we are at a 15 for 15 first time pass rate, extending our streak to 46 consecutive first time passes on the national boards for practicing athletic training over the last 3 years! Historically, the national first time pass rate has been around 62-65%, but Ithaca College has averaged over 96% over the last 8 years, and is at 100% for the last 3 years.

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Christopher Toone, Class of 2013 was recently notified by the NATA's Research & Education Foundation that he is the 2013 winner of the Sayers "Bud" Miller Memorial Scholarship for undergraduate athletic training majors.

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Rachel Wagner (Dept. of Philosophy and Religion) has published an article in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the flagship journal for the discipline of Religious Studies.

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In mid-April, Nancy Menning presented a paper at the Midwest regional meetings of the American Academy of Religion. "Memorializing complicity: Shi'ite Ashura rites and environmental mourning" explores the Shi'ite Muslim practice of mourning a tragic death in early Islamic history as a possible model for environmental mourning.

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Randi Millman-Brown presented a paper at the annual Visual Resources Association conference in April 2013 in Providence, RI.

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Art History faculty presented their research at two recent conferences.

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