Ithaca College

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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James Mick, assistant professor of music education, in collaboration with Diana Geiger, Boynton Middle School Orchestra Director, received a Red and Gold Grant through the Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI), which aims to connect local schools with the community. 

The grant made it possible for Mick to visit Boynton Middle School throughout the semester to work with the orchestra. As a capstone experience, Mick will be conducting a piece with the orchestra at Boynton's May 9 concert.

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Please join the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in congratulating Thomas Conners '14. Tommy is the winner of the American Council on The Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Cemanahuac Educational Community Scholarship. This is a very competitive scholarship program, and only one scholarship is awarded annually. As part of the scholarship, Tommy will travel to Cemanahuac, Mexico. There, he will participate in a full-immersion language-learning community with the purpose of gaining invaluable professional skills as a future teacher of Spanish language, literature and culture.

¡Felicitaciones, Tommy! 

Congratulations to thirty School of Business students who've earned Microsoft Excel Core Certifications. 

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Professor Barney Beins has authored a book on research projects entitled Successful Research Projects: A Step-by-Step Guide. The book was published by Sage.

Dr. Donathan Brown, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences, has been invited to speak at the Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English (CISLE) at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.  The July talk will center on American political responses to immigration reform.

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Congratulations to Dr. Danette Johnson, Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Core Curriculum for the College.  As first vice president of the Eastern Communication Association, Dr. Johnson planned and coordinated the annual meeting,  held in Pittsburgh and drawing attendees from across the nation.  ECA is one of the largest regional associations in the discipline.

The theme of this year's conference was "Confluence".  Chosen for the state of the discipline, as well as the geography of the host city, the theme resulted in many fascinating papers and presentations.  The conference also offered a number of short courses and interest group business meetings.  

Coordinating and hosting the conference is especially impressive in light of Dr. Johnson's duties on campus this past year.  Warmest congratulations, Danette, from your colleagues in Communication Studies, in H&S, and across the College.

On April 29, Prof. Cynthia Henderson, Theatre Arts, gave a lecture titled, Transformative Theatre:  Using Theatre as an Agent for Social Change, at Cornell University’s Center for International Studies as part of the Spring 2013 Seminar Series. 

Prof. Henderson shared the history of Performing Arts for Social Change (PASC) and how it was influenced by Theatre of the Oppressed.  She spoke about the mission of PASC and how it informs the process of building trust, gathering stories, and creating the theatre piece, as well as its potential to change the public discourse. 

 Julia Cozzarelli, Associate Professor of Italian and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Between Reality and Symbol: Fierce Dogs and Ferocious Wolves in the Decameron" at the Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts conference.  The paper examined the role of animals in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio within the context of a presumed shift from the allegorical models of the Middle Ages to the more naturalistic approaches of the early Italian Renaissance.  The study examined the topic using Dante's Commedia as a point of comparison.

The New York State Archaeological Association Conference was held in Watertown, NY on April 27 and 28, 2013. The Anthropology Department was well-represented.

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 CEO of the KettleShell, PT Grad Student, Timothy Reynolds competes at New York State Business Plan Competition on April 26, 2013.

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Michael "Bodhi" Rogers presents at the New York State Archaeological Association annual meeting

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Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, of the Department of Physics, 
becomes chair of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society

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Wendy Herbener Mehne, Professor of Performance Studies at the School of Music, was recently named to the National Flute Association's Board of Directors.  She has previously served the National Flute Association as their Secretary and a member of their Excutive Board.  

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The end of the Spring 2013 semester has been a busy time for Dr. Carl Johengen, Assistant Professor of Voice (adjunct).

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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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