Ithaca College

Ithaca College Mock Trial's "B" team came in second and our "A" team 6th out of ten competitors in last weekend's invitational tournament at St. Bonaventure University. 

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Quoted in the media: Faculty members Annemarie Farrell, Stephen Mosher, Rhoda Meador, Michael McCall and Diane Gayeski; staff members Rachel Reuben, Denise Wells and Bonny Griffith; and students John Vogan and Robert Mills. For more information on the following articles, please visit the IC in the Media page at the Office of Media Relations:

IC in the Media

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Michael Kaneff ’13, a television-radio student major, uses his production skills to raise awareness for a medical condition that hits close to home: Muscular Dystrophy.

Kaneff’s mother was diagnosed with MD eight years ago. He now produces videos to connect with others affected by the disease and to help raise money for the cause.

"There are 41 types of Muscular Dystrophy, yet none have a cure," Kaneff said.

Each year, he works on a documentary that is screened at the Black and Blue Ball, a local fundraiser for more than 200 business owners and MD patients, in the hopes of inspiring guests to donate.

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 Ben Hogben, Access Services Manager in the IC Library, has published an article, "The Vital Role of Interviewing and Training Student Assistants" in the November 2012 issue of "Associates: The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal".  

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Rachel Heiss ’13 and Marissa Osowsky ’14 were recipients of the 2012 The Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) scholarship. Heiss and Osowosky are both Integrated Marketing Communications majors, and are interested in pursuing a career in the advertising industry.

Heiss is an Advertising Week contributor and has interned at many companies including G2 Worldwide in New York City as a branding and design account intern, and at CBS Radio (105.9 Fresh FM) in Chicago as marketing and promotions intern. She is also the President of the Senior Class.

Osowsky is an active member of the American Advertising Federation student chapter, serving as president and project manager. She was awarded an internship at McGarrah Jessee in Austin, TX through the AAF Vance Stickle Program. Osowsky is also a member of the Lambda Pi Eta Communications Honor Society.

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 An essay by Assistant Professor Donathan Brown, Department of Communication Studies in H&S, will be included in a special 25th anniversary issue of the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy.  The non-partisan journal is housed in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The journal is devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship on politics and policy-making pertaining to Latino communities in the United States. 

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Assistant Professor Miranda Kaye (Exercise and Sport Sciences) was published in the Journal of Sport Medicine and Doping Studies.

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Jennifer Jolly, Associate Professor in the the Department of Art History, has received an NEH Research Fellowship for her project "Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas's Legacy as a Nation Builder through His Art Patronage in Michoacan’s Lake District." The research is part of Professor Jolly's book-in-progress Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico, which examines Lázaro Cardenas’ extensive patronage in and around Pátzcuaro and pairs it with a history of images of this region in considering how the area figures historically in the post-revolutionary re-imagining of Mexico.

Twelve teams made their final pitch for a chance to win $5,000 during IC's School of Businesses Second Annual Business Idea Competition. And for two HSHP students their ideas are one step closer to becoming a reality.

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Each month the Campus Center and Event Services office spotlights 2-3 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. For the months of December & January, we’d like to recognize ALEXIS SINGH & SAM BRUCKER. Read more about these 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).

On November 13, 2012, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures held its annual Honor Society Program in the Clarke Lounge at 5 p.m.

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Soprano, Deborah Montgomery, Professor of Voice performed for over 8500 school children in a tour with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra last week in Grant Cooper’s (former Director of Orchestras at Ithaca College) Boyz in the Wood.  The Arts in Education program allowed children in Charleston, Parkersburg and Morgantown to experience this special interactive musical event.

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Wendy Herbener Mehne was invited to perform at the 40th Anniversary National Flute Association Convention in Las Vegas, NV.  She performed music by Ravel, Schoenberg and Roussel on August 11, 2012.

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Professor Raj Subramaniam (Health Promotion and Physical Education) and undergraduate students Anya Eckhardt, Johnny Gorton-Parker, Amanda Failla, and Monica Weimer presented at the 75th Annual New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance conference held on November 15, 2012in Verona, New York.

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Assistant Professor Skott Freeman (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) was published in The International Journal of Bilingualism.

His article, "Using whole-word production measures to determine the influence of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on bilingual speech production" appears in the December, 2012 issue.

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Sean Eversley Bradwell, assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE), recently traveled to Nashville, TN to present at the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE). Dr. Bradwell and Ithaca City School District Superintendent, Dr. Luvelle Brown, presented: 

"When Good is Not Enought: Why and How a District is Seeking Excellence" -- The Ithaca City School District is engaged with systemic change efforts. District educators are transforming teaching and learning practices, realigning priorities, engaging the community, and overcoming situational constraints to shift the district culture while producing dramatic achievement gains. The session provided examples of structures and artifacts associated with philosophy, policy, curriculum, instruction and assessment shifts.  

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of Screen Studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), presented a special seminar entitled "Open Space Documentary" for Dartmouth College's journalism program on November 8, 2012.

The seminar explored how new media platforms and transmedia practices featured in the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival have shifted documentary into more collaborative, placed-based, and fluid forms of engagement.

The two-hour interactive seminar was presented via Skype. Seminar participants reviewed the FLEFF new media exhibitions featured online, project websites, and Zimmermann's writing on open space documentary in published essays and on her blog to prepare for the seminar.

New York State teacher and media literacy director at Project Look Sharp, Chris Sperry, presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Seattle, WA on November 16, 2012 at the Washington State Convention Center. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators. 

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Jean C. Hardwick, E. Marie Southerland, Allison E. Girasole ('10), Shannon E. Ryan ('12), Sara Negrotto, and Jeffrey L. Ardell. Remodeling of intrinsic cardiac neurons: effects of β-adrenergic receptor blockade in guinea pig models of chronic heart disease. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2012 Nov;303(9):R950-8. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00223.2012. Epub 2012 Aug 29.  View the abstract here.

Peter Melcher  organized a symposium and presented in different section for the 2012 Botanical Society of America Meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

Robert Griffin-Nolan (biology student), wins the prestigious LICOR prize for best LICOR poster presentation in the physiological section.

Leanne Donahue (biology student) presented a poster.

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