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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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Camden Weber ’15 and Lauren Ryan ’16 were recently named recipients of a New York Women in Communications Scholarship.

Weber, a communications management and design major received the McGraw-Hill Companies Scholarship. Ryan, an integrated marketing communications major, received the New York Women in Communications Alumna Award for Excellence. The scholarships are awarded to 15-20 students each year who show academic excellence, need, and demonstrated commitment to the communications field.

Both recipients went to New York City in April and were featured on the TODAY Show, attended a VIP reception with names such as Ryan Seacrest and Joan Rivers, among others, and went to the luncheon sponsored by WEtv where they received their awards.

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Skott E. Freedman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, recently published an article in International Journal of English Linguistics.

Title: Effects of neighborhood density on adult word repetition

Journal: International Journal of English Linguistics
Issue: 2013, Volume 1

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The National Residence Hall Honorary would like to congratulate our three regional winners.  These recipients were nominated by other Ithaca College students and faculty for their outstanding contribution to the Ithaca College community during the month of March.  The New York New England Association of College and University Residence Halls then chose these three winners to represent our region.  Congratulations!

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Stephen Younger, Economics Department, presented a paper "The Incidence of Recent Child Health Improvements in Africa, " co-authored with David Sahn, at the Spring Symposium on Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Confronting the Challenges for a Better Life for all Africa at Cornell University, April 19-20, 2013.

Stephen Younger will serve as a discussant for "Inclusive Growth in Africa: Lessons from South Korea." The African Development Bank (AfDB), the Korean Development Institute (KDI) and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) is organizing an Expert Group meeting on Inclusive Growth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from May 6-7, 2013. 

Timothy Johnson, Professor of Music Theory, will give a presentation at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held May 29-31 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. 

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Steve Peterson, Director of Bands and Professor of Music just returned from a successful week in Mainz, Germany, where he guest conducted the Honor Band for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools Music Festival.  

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